Further, and perhaps final update...

So last night we played the Alhambra in Paris at the ‘semi-final’ stage of the competition.

I have now realised that it’s quite hard to get knocked out. If the organisers sense that you still have the potential to sell say 30 or 40 tickets at a future concert, you will be miraculously reprieved, even if you were officially eliminated at the last round.

Again, I felt we played OK last night (we should do – we’ve been playing virtually nothing but these 7 songs now for around 3 months!) but we didn’t mobilise that many supporters. Hardly surprising as Sunday is not a great night to drag people out, plus the 1 May is actually a public holiday here.

I guess this is the nearest the band will get to the ‘real deal’. Nice big clean backstage area – with working shower, private pre-stage entry dressing room, dedicated sound engineers for FoH and band (side of stage) …

Best scenario now would be for us to be knocked out honourably (top 2 go through to final). The result is not yet known. I think if we were top 4 we get a ‘professionally finished’ dvd of our set.

I sincerely hope we don’t have to do it all again as it is becoming awkward to constantly pester friends, neighbours and colleagues to come along.

For all this I still think it has been a positive experience for us.

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