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The first weekend in September has been mad. I was woken up by a text from Andrew our roadie that said "Did ALL that really happen on Saturday, or was it just a bad dream?"... No really it did. OPOSIUM had been invited to play at a wedding function in Shapwick which sounded inoquous enough... except I had the idea of taking a real piano along with us to play beside the river for the champagne reception. Unfortunately it hammered it with rain all afternoon so us taking the piano proved useless, but the gig inside the marquee went amazing and everybody really enjoyed our light renditions of swung up tracks from Life Under The Sun; as well as a LOT of impromtu jamming! In fact, we'd never played jazz together before, and guest saxophonist Henry Dobson hadn't even met Professor Stix and Mr Brain. Actually this was Professor Stix's first live gig with OPOSIUM - although it felt like he'd been part of the band for a lot longer ! We've only had one rehersal with him ... and that was just a jam!

So the gig was great! After heading back from the pub though, a little over zealous Doctor One managed to get the piano caught off the back of the truck ... Not many people claim to have seen an upright piano somersault down a road - Doctor One and Andrew are now in that select bunch! So now we're left with this piano that we have no idea what to do with. Any suggestions?????

... We did think about getting the army to blow it up on Salisbury plain ... ...

You can see part one of our trip to Shapwick and the getting of the piano into the truck if you login on this website! We'll upload part II later in the week.

Til then, last week's episode can be seen below! H'enjoy !!!

Peace, Richard

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