It is something I have often wondered when I perform: what do the audience really think when I take the stage. Usually I am nuts on stage. I run about, I leap off and gyrate grittier than Lily Savage on the Lambrini in Blackpool. With so much going on in my life right now I often forget to stop, reflect and take stock. I am running off from show to show or emailing, planning or rehearsing. Whilst that seems so glamorous, it can be quite isolating and all consuming. Then suddenly when out of the blue comes a message from someone who saw you at a show, it stops you in your tracks. Today just such a thing happened. This week I was called upon to step in rather last minute to perform at a show in my homeland of the West Country in an old (WONDERFUL) cinema in Frome. I performed a slight twist on my Gorilla Voodoo You Do act and my Dark Before The Dawn.
Before I knew it, the show was over and I was heading home to only catch the train to my next gig…2 hrs sleep. EEKK
Now home and tired and back from gig number 2 today I pop onto my fan page on facebook to receive this message:
I wanted to say that as a performer myself (a classically trained vocalist) I find your performances so refreshing because of the unrestrained emotion that you convey to the audience, it can all at once be alluring, provocative, seductive and sometimes unnerving in that single moment. It is a very rare gift you have, very few can connect with their audience in such a way. Keep doing what you are doing you wonderful woman.
I know it to be very arrogent to spout such praise as this but today this made me a little teary. I have often felt slightly awash and hidden amongst the scene with my style of performing not quite fitting in…this affirmed with me, I am doing grand. THANK YOU TIZ for sending this. It is this kind of feedback that honestly gives me the boost to keep at it.
THANK YOU
