Hi all!
Two of my friends got married last saturday. We had planned to play 4-5 songs for them. They were: Whiskey in the jar (with lyrics regarding the groom), Tćtum og tryllum (Icelandic song), Proud Mary, and two other songs that elude me right now.
We were also asked to back up(play) a singer which was a surprise guest. She´s a very well known and respected singer here in Iceland (Sigríđur Guđnadóttir, frćnka Palla Rós), and being a pro that she is, she just met us for an hour the night before. We practiced three songs, Hjá ţér(Icelandic song), Bobby McGee and Have you ever seen the rain.
She was first to sing (with us playing of course) and it went so well that the guests demanded an encore. So we had to do some quick thinking and decided to perform Stand by me, which we hadn´t rehearsed. That one also went very well.
We were also the last act, my girlfriend was the singer and we performed our 5 songs that we intended to. That also went very well and the guests refused to let us stop playing. Fortunately we brought our text/lyrics book so we ended up playing nearly an hour and a half.
It was a nice change doing a wedding gig. We had a light gear, just the snare drum, a cymbal, mic´ed up acoustic guitar and my bass plugged into the mixer via my new sansamp.
/me a pretty happy man.
