8 Things To Do You Do When Your Punk Play Finishes And You
Suddenly Have Lots Of Time
A piece by Henry Raby
1. Follow-up in the
show. Work out how much you spent, ask
for feedback, collate feedback, chase promoters, chase producers. Store all your stuff neatly so it can be re-constructed
when the show breathes again. Thank the
venue, thank the audience, thank people that helped you out. Thank yourself.
2. Put Bojack
Horseman on in the background and treat it like the radio. Laugh so it reverbs around the walls at the clever
writing. Sink low alongside the characters
into their unique pits. Feel happy. Feel sad.
Feel broken. Thank yourself.
3. Keep up good
habits. Keep the vocal exercises, keep
up the physical lessons learnt. Keep up
the positivity from the show. Don’t look
back in anger, I heard you say.
4. Plan. What’s next?
Not in detail. But, you know,
keep the cogs a’turning.
5. Don’t be creative. At least, I haven’t been. I’m storing it up. I’m itching for it. When I do it, it’ll flow better than jotting
stuff down.
6. Do be creative. But in a totally different way. I played some guitar at an open mic.
7. Read something totally
different. I’m not touching anything
punk. I’m not reading any interviews,
articles or zines about punk. I’m reading
something political, admittedly. A Very British
Coup. It’s fun. It’s scarily predictive of a Corbyn future.
8. Go for walks by
the river. If you don’t have a river, go
get one. You’ll find them just lying around, ripe for the plucking.
9. Listen to all that Hip-Hop you forgot you said you'd check out
10. Learn some new guitar chords
11. Tidy your room (as of time of typing: unfulfilled)
12. Clean the house (1/2 fulfilled)
13. Make a non-demoninational egg hunt around the house for your housemates
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