Testing -123

How different one day can be. At the start of my first performance at 2pm I felt relaxed if a little lonely,  as far as I could see I was the only one in the gallery. I'm committed to performing whatever happens so got on with it. However a little sea of faces emerged from the entrance after the second song. They had been there all along, Sonny the angelic gallery assistant and the very special Cannon Hill Art School film crew. I performed he the song 'Home' a few times for the camera and even more people poured in. A well known and admired female artist came to see me and we chatted about a possible collaboration, members of the Art School also came to watch and chat. Families and individuals from all nations chatted to me after the second show too and I could have sold plenty of albums if it was ready! later on I was invited to play in the Arena Bar. It was noisy in there and I thought nobody was listening, but I am committed to performing so I just got on with it. It was less of a surprise this time when several people approached me after to thank me for singing, I reached them through the clatter somehow and I believe in trusting in that more than ever now. I could never, ever have believed this time would come for the songs from 'Winter of Desire' when I wrote them, tired and broken in a women's rehab in North London - on a borrowed guitar. ' Walk in faith and not by sight'? Oh go on then x