Day 25
Filming Re:covered, London
Hello. We've been called back to London by our sinister overlords to film the television show called Re:covered in which popular groups perform their current 'hit' and a cover version of a song that's important to them. We're doing If I fall and God only knows by the Beach Boys, which we haven't played very much. Luckily we get to play it two thousand times (a couple too few, it turns out).
It's a lovely sunny day, we're by the river and the record company is paying for drinks. If it weren't for the grotesque carbuncle on my nose, everything would be perfect. Kerry gets her go in Makeup at the same time as Dermot O'Leary, which makes her tour. The nice makeup ladies fix my face for me without vomiting into their hands. True professionals.
When the moment comes to perform, I'm suddenly struck by nerves. It's when you start thinking about which chords to play next, because you're on television and you want to get it right, that you suddenly forget how to play at all. You just have to turn off your targeting computer and use the force. TV shows are funny. There's a little audience who are trained to give you warm and excitable applause after a count of three, time after time after time. We should employ a guy in giant headphones to manage the audience at gigs.
We make it through the tracks. The audience applaud with professional enthusiasm. I guess we'll find out how it sounded later.
