Lost backstage in a warren of narrow corridors and mystery staircases, I find a doorway with apparently no way back
he band I’m in is playing its penultimate gig of 2022, in Stroud. Our trumpet player is not available, because she just had a baby. We’ve rehearsed a set that covers for her absence, but at the last minute the fiddle player tests positive for Covid. Suddenly we’re down from seven to five.
By 3pm we have loaded our stuff into the venue, the Clapham Grand in south London, and set up. During the sound check I play the guitar solo through a few times and all seems well. After that, we wait. The long wait gives me a chance to calm down, and then get nervous all over again. I tune and retune my guitar and banjo several times. Someone mentions that two of the swanky boxes to the right of the stage are unoccupied, and if we want we can sit up there to watch the support act, an excellent band called the Trials of Cato.On the way out of the door I pause to plug my phone in to charge. Along the corridor I see three band members disappearing down the stairs.
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