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rockfenris2005 01:21 pm UTC 06/18/12 |
| In reply to: | re: Showbiz 411 article - RemyH 06:34 pm UTC 06/17/12 |
> > I'm a writer and performer. I wrote a musical and my friend wrote the music and we got it produced over here last year and it got an award. > > This is very interesting, I'm myself writing a musical at > the moment, I just graduated and I'm planning on spending > years 2012-2013 with the show. I have high hopes for it, > though finding sponsors won't be easy...Finland isn't the > most fruitful place for musicals. I know how you feel. Believe me. I wish you nothing but the best. It's so difficult. I've been working on this project for ten years of my life. I was fifteen years old when I started. My friend and I sat down as teenagers and played this song, which is called "God works in mysterious ways", and I was really excited about the way it was going. But it would be seven more years before we would both work on the project together, me writing book and lyrics and him writing music. But we were friends that whole time. We wrote songs together. He played in bands. I did a course (which is how I met my friend.) Then about four years we had a demo of a couple tracks that we were pretty excited about. So we talked with someone about a concert but that never happened. There was a lot of pain for me not only because of how much I believed in my share of the project and the project itself but also because of that music. We'd talked about a concert with someone but they went on holiday and just forgot to tell us, I suppose, but we didn't know what was happening. So he went to the theatre over here and they put us onto someone else who put us onto someone else which was a dead end. I was crying, although you couldn't see it behind my rose-coloured sunglasses haha (Looking at the world through rose-coloured sunglasses :-) Then we met this venue manager in early 2010 and everything just seemed to click from there. We went for an arts grant, one particular arts grant that I believe had never before been awarded in the history of the city. It was like getting onto a rollercoaster. Would we get it? Or would it be another year or years? In the end I didn't win anything for the short story competition but we got the grant :-) Then I lost my friend :-( We'd both submitted stories for the competition and little did I know that I would end up reading her story at the announcement as a tribute to her. Somewhere there is video footage but I don't think I can watch it now as it was so close to the time. I think of her sometimes and I just keep pressing on :-) In a way she saved me because I will never kill myself because I believe in solving things and living life as long as I can. That is a true gift to give to someone. Just before she died she said to me she was listening to "For crying out loud" and she said, "You were right. It's all kinds of awesome." That song for me, now, is just wow. She loved Glee too so I liked hearing their versions of "Paradise" and "All coming back", other songs which she loved. As I said the production was a success. But it is so tough. If you're really passionate you will stick to it no matter what. You will walk through fire and rain and wind and thunder and lightning and you will never give up. And knowing that we now have an award to the show's name gives me the warmest feeling. I was beginning to feel like Count Nosferatu or the Highlander. Who wants to live forever? Even the producer in the programme said that I said that we approached him a hundred years ago, haha. > > > But we went along to our first meeting in the new year last year and I came home to discover that my friend (When I turn to my left I look at her picture on my desk) had passed away that morning. I was so broken hearted. I miss her all the time. I've got beyond the initial stage... but I'll never forget her and I'll never really get beyond the tragedy of it all, for someone so young and so loving and so caring. It should not have been her. She passed away in her sleep so I'm thankful that she had no real idea. > > I am so sorry for your loss. One of the carrying themes of > my thing is losing a loved one and coping with the loss, > and let's just say that it's heavily based on my own life. > You're not alone with your pain. Wow. I too am developing a project in which a character is dealing with the loss of another character. That is one of the parts of the piece. As a matter of fact I will be reading a lyric from it this Wednesday, the first time I have stood on a stage since last year's closing night. > > > Somewhere there is a recording of me singing "Confession of a Vampire". It's definitely on "Nothing but a Merciless Night II" but I think I should record it again sometime. > > How lovely! As it happens, I've covered some Tanz hits > myself and I'm working on a Gier cover at the moment. > Linky for God Is Dead instrumental, you can find a Carpe > Noctem cover from the same account. They're definitelly > not my best demos, just something I've recorded (without > my band) when I was bored. > I listened to your recordings today. I liked them myself. I also liked hearing the different lyrics that were like Michael Kunze's German originals. | |
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