We've been trying to stay off the internet due to everyone except us having seen THAT DOCTOR WHO VIDEO (Ruth is waiting until Marc is home to watch it, so trying to avoid spoilers)...
We simply had to log on to tell you TWO PIECES of exciting news.
1. We're going to be on a dead cool CD!
Our version of Gaudete (you can hear us practising on Ruth's soundcloud), a traditional Christmas carol with verses translated into English (from Latin) by Ruth, and sung as a ukulele duet with - we think - some pretty lush harmonies, is going to be featured on the ninth volume of this Christmas CD!
So that's pretty cool isn't it? Cherryade records is an amazing label and home to some fantastic artists (including Ste McCabe and The Lovely Eggs) so to have a track included on a CD of theirs is simply wonderful!
2. We're going to be playing a super cool gig!
We have a pretty exciting gig coming up. We're going to be playing not one, but TWO sets on the evening of 8th December at MelloMello, Liverpool! We even plan to play some carols in the second set! Get there for about 7pm; it's free and they serve all kinds of wonderful food and drink.
It's amazing when you think that the very first time we played together in public was just under a year ago; Monday 3rd December, in fact. Since then we've worked hard: practised, promoted, recorded and performed whenever we have been able.
Someone was saying on twitter the other day that if you're young you're maybe able to devote more time to music. We did wonder if there might be a slight element of truth in that. We've certainly had to work around looking after Ruth's six year old son, both of us working/volunteering, studying too and of course, running a house, paying all the bills and the rent. Certainly the list of things you have to juggle when you're making music in your mid(to late) thirties is a different one to the list in your late teens or twenties; whether or not it's a larger sized list... well, we aren't sure what did in our late teens and twenties because we're getting on a bit, plus we overdid it a bit in our youth so our memories are hazy. ;)
We'll just keep on working as hard as we can, and provided the child still gets cuddled, fed, watered, clothed, played and read with and is happy, we can sod the housework and muck about on the mandolin. One thing we said right at the start of all this was that we would keep doing this as long as it was fun. We don't mind hard work, but it needs to be enjoyable too.
Well, thankfully for us, and for you... it is! An awful lot of fun, in fact.
So: keep an eye out here, and on our twitter and Facebook page for news of our Really Quite Big Gig, and our Christmas Collection too.
Anyway, time to do a bit of housework. Or was that 'practise the piano'? Hmm.
