Band rehearsal weekend

eintx, valydiarosada and the_magician were here this weekend for a Cosmic Trifle rehearsal. I had been viewing this with a certain amount of trepidation, because my voice has got very croaky of late, but it seemed no worse than usual once I got started, and my bandmates, while also a touch out of practice, were as brilliant as ever.

We seem to be working towards a possible set for the next filkcon, which will involve my getting mobile again (in hand) and registering the Countess and myself for said filkcon, not to mention convincing a justly sceptical concom that we will actually turn up this time. Assuming we do, and they grant us a set, we can promise you, in the immortal words of Semprini, "old ones*, new ones, loved ones, neglected ones." Some of the new ones I'm extremely keen on, and there are some of mine as well, including an Eagles song to which I'm anxious to give an airing.

In among the music, we watched the first episode of The Owl Service, which was strange in a way I hadn't remembered (twentysomethings playing fifteen-year-olds ever so slightly creepily), The Pirates! in an Adventure with Scientists!, and to round off the entertainment, (G&S purists look away now) Joseph Papp's film of The Pirates of Penzance, which I love. Kevin Kline makes a superbly Nyrondish Pirate King (see icon) and at that age would have been my choice to play Zander. I'm still sure there must be some reason grounded in hoary G&S tradition why George Rose (as Major General Stanley) sings "I am an orphan boy" in that peculiar voice, but I will probably never know. Altogether a delight.

As was the whole weekend. And now we have a reason to have more rehearsals...

*(Probably not The Old Ones, at least not in the set.)