millionreasons | I know how your scene works; your scene works the same as my scene

To the Lexington for the Funsize Lions gig. I am incredibly nervous, and the downside of a late soundcheck and an early start time is that there’s not enough time for vodka to hit the bloodstream and I make a mess of the riffs on a couple of the songs. I’m not sure whether to beat myself up about this (I was ‘hired’ as a keyboard player so I should play things accurately, I played it fine in rehearsal) or to be more lenient on myself (It was on two out of seven songs, it was my first gig etc). When people say: It sounded really good, I ask: Did you hear my mistakes? I can be a bit needy like that sometimes.

The other bands are (i) Grosvenor, who kindly lend me their keyboard stand, and sound like Level 42 mixed with Hall and Oates, and (ii) headliners The Chap: Kraftwerk vs Franz Ferdinand. They claim that all of their songs are about getting lost in the forest, although they’re called things like Come Into My Disco Pad and Ethnic Instrument. Their drummer wears a kitten t-shirt and you can’t argue with that. I go downstairs and take my frustrations out on the table football. I think I won a few games despite David flashing his camera in my eyes.

On the 73 on the way home, I notice that bendy buses are made by Mercedes Benz.

Ahem.

Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a bendy bus

My friends use Routemasters, I must make a fuss

Work hard for my Oyster,

The driver, I don’t cuss

Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a bendy bus.