We spent Wednesday and Thursday in Columbus.
We stayed with a Columbus based electro group called Digiraatii.
On Wednesday we spent most of our time in Digiraatii's studio working on a new project called "Caveman Lawyer" which is a supergroup consisting of me, Smoke Screen, and Digiraatii, just for fun. But we also had a lot of rehearsing and arranging to do to prepare for our performance (which was Thursday).
On Thursday we did more Caveman Lawyer stuff as well as more rehearsing leading up to the performance that evening.
When we arrived for sound check at Long Street District, it was definitely really awkward.
Everything was extremely unorganized. The promoter/organizer of the show was pretty much unresponsive and unhelpful at first, but (long story short) after some persistence, we made arrangements.
We performed in the back VIP room of the club for their weekly dance party and there was a very solid turnout.
It went very well. Smoke Screen got a great response because their music has many club music elements incorporated, but initially I was not sure about the response would be to my performance because of the more experimental nature of my music. Despite my insecurities, the crowd responded very well to my music and it was lot of fun.
Though the event was unorganized to a point of subliminal pandemonium in all of the artists, promoters, and bouncers, it went very smoothly.
After my performance, the promoter asked me to DJ for an hour to fill in space. I was sort of annoyed because he had not brought this up earlier for me to prepare but I did it on the spot.
After the event was over I exchanged information with the promoter and he said he would love to feature me as a performer there more often. So this was a very productive gig; this could really help establish myself better in Columbus.
We are now in Brooklyn, New York, after 10 hours of driving, staying at my brother's house.
We have a day off before we have our performance to arrange our set-lists and work in my brother's studio, so thats awesome.
This experience, even in just the first few days, has been unbelievably fun, stressful, exciting, overwhelming, etc. My sense of time, date, and geographical location has completely disappeared. I might wake up thinking it's a Tuesday in Cleveland at 9am and I'm late for school and then realize it's a Friday in Columbus at 12pm and I have to drive 10 hours to New York to perform.
Very surreal, yet very awesome.I
Ps. It is 2am right now.
Rest of the schedule:
Sunday May 22nd: Goodbye Blue Monday in Brooklyn, NY
Monday May 23rd: Danger Danger in Philadelphia, PA
Tuesday May 24th: Public Assembly in Brooklyn, NY
Thursday May 26th: The Grog Shop in Cleveland, OH
Dude, just keep adapting to these promoters and venues. You know how it is, man. Every gig should be treated as if no one knows what is going on. Then, you go in, be polite, evaluate the situation, and take control. You can do it, Connor. That's the only way to be successful in this sort of thing. You control your destiny. Keep it even keel and aprovecha la oportunidad, amigo.
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