I’m in a café above Victoria coach station… I was in a café above Victoria coach station when I tried to kill some time catching up on the blog but I got a call from an ill Bobby Singh saying he can’t make it tonight. Tonight is the big screen showing of Pizzaman in Buffalo Bar in Cardiff. The original artist pulled out due to illness as well and Bobby was his replacement. I’ve hit the phone, finding people to help out and come close to success. Actually I was in the queue for the Megabus coach while on the phone to Betsan of the group Freshold Crew. I felt impatient as I had to get off the phone to her asap as I needed to go into my phone’s e-mail and show my bus ticket to the driver. In face as I write this on the bus to Cardiff I’m getting calls from people asking questions about the night or apologising for not being able to cover the band slot. It gives me hope that people still like me enough to call me about something to do with Pizzaman considering the e-mails I’ve been getting. I even had one guy threaten to hurt me on facebook.
This morning I made the unwise decision to look at who had unsubscribed from the Chimp Mailer. It was quite a shock. I’d never thought I’d be so affected by knowing that certain people did not support what I did. I admit that I rinsed every contact I had to spread the word but I never thought I’d be left by some of them. You really do learn who your friends are and who you can trust. During the facebook side of the campaign my number of friends diminished considerably as well. I only noticed by accident when I wanted to see how one of the writers from Pizzaman was getting along. Suddenly I needed to ask permission to be his friend again. I checked someone else and found the same. I realised I am a human being and remain upset with them. My resolve is that you really can’t trust people you meet in London no matter how closely you work with them or consider them friends. Other shocks were from people I considered mentors and people who’ve been supportive. They have every right to stop hearing about it but it does leave a sting.
In between writing I’ve taken yet more calls, one to say a rap group is able to cover the slot. This is great news. As I ‘m on the call I get a text that I read after I hang up. It says that James Morris has found another band and accepted them. I reluctantly call the rappers back to say it’s a no go and fell a bit shitty about it as it was so good of them to accept at such short notice. Life goes on and I feel like I’m on the path to Mount Doom to destroy the ring, there will always be a part of me wanting to hold on to it. I know I must let go.
In other news my film review I did with Jim Gault was accepted by WalesOnline and I can have it shown on their site. I will be doing them once a month and they’ll provide the images I can use due to their rights issues. Jim has really done me a favour and I found it incredibly ironic as I’d not wanted to do it in the first place when it came to the crunch. I said I’d see it through but I had no burning desire to make it a success. I even met with Jim again to go over the edits he’d done. I softened a lot of the edits and had him rearrange the order I spoke and it eventually paid off. This is a very good platform as I was looking to keep a hold of the great contact I have with Media Wales and WalesOnline. Maybe one day they will have a pay wall to be jumped over but for now the future is enough.
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