It's the fête de la Musique in France today... We were supposed to be playing on one of the stages in the beautiful town of Annecy, and I'd been looking forward to playing all day... Our babysitter arrived and it was absolutely pissing it down with rain, with a few flashes of lightening & claps of thunder.. We checked the web to see if it had been cancelled in Annecy, as it had been in quite a few big towns up North, but no, it was still going ahead !
Vincent was late getting to ours, and we were starting to get a bit impatient and worried as we watched the sky getting darker and the thunder storm getting thicker, (the sky doing its own little concert for the fête de la musique) but when he finally arrived and we hit the road the sky got clearer....
We got to Annecy and fown where we were going to be playing - a pretty nice spot the "Place d eNotre Dame"... Found a small pub and had a drink before heading back to the stage and getting all the materiel out of the car when the heavens opened again... Full on power-cut on the stage !!... We try to keep the crowd amused and play a few songs in accoustic... The organisers tell us that it's not going to be possible to play on the stage tonight... The whole group is in a kind of buzz under the raindrops and we decide to keep playing in accoustic in the rain... The crowd stays and gets bigger and bigger... I thought there were probably about 30 people, but seeing a photo the next day shows that there were well over one hundred all gathered around us as we sang and danced like mad people haha..... We sold all the Cds we bought with us - which is pretty cool :)We play until the police arrive to ask us to shut up at about 1am - and sing them our song aimed at the police.... They don't get mad, and actually have a smile and tell us to go and play by the lake as there are no houses 'round there - result !!... A whole load of people follow us and we keep playing 'til 'round 3am !!...
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