BIG MISTAKE
Performed as part of the Kill Your Timid Notion tour at Spike Island, Bristol on December 2, 2008.
Posthumously applied titled for this blunderful mix-up. An uptight technician fouled up a few details, chaos and improvised solutions followed.
Program notes for 2008 KYTN Performance:
I’ve always admired musicians above filmmakers
found their talents slippery, transitions thrilling
sense of timing, essence and rhythm
directly expressed, clearly heard
less compromised than making a movie
now, here at home, working
on this performance, piecing it together,
writing this text, thinking of
the musicality of the moment
in the room where you are now,
where I’ll be soon,
I picture the pulse, the play
of spilling light, layers of sound
plot out what comes first, falls after
cook up tonight’s medley routine
although I will never know
how it really works out
in the moment, which is what you are
presently experiencing and which
I’m sure will feel different for me then
than it does behind the camera
as I shoot the final title card
and say good night.
