It’s been confirmed: Friday November 23rd I’ll be doing my first solo show at the University of Waterloo. That’s nearly a seven hour drive from my home and will be my first time playing outside of the Ottawa area.
It’ll also be my first hardcore test of the laptop + guitar + vocals setup. I’m hoping it goes totally awesome as that would mean I could travel with this sucker when there’s no budget to lug a full band around and I could start fulfilling some of those Eventful demands.
The only two huge issues I’m really worried about are:
The laptop could flake out - I’ll have the backing tracks on MP3 and CD as well as the laptop which would mean only my realtime vocal effects would be killed if something terrible were to happen to the laptop.
It could be totally lame - A dude singing and playing guitar to some laptop backing tracks — is that cool? My favorite rappers generally just have backing track — or a DJ going through the motions if they’re rich and want to be super cool. Doing an acoustic show seems like a cop-out, but maybe having backing tracks is too phony.
Of course I’m sure something unexpected will happen instead. Who knows!
