Already at the second song of the first set, we had a minor technical problem, as there was no sound coming from my Fender Rhodes, so while bass and drums were already grooving, I had to change a few jack cables. After I had localized the bad cable, everything worked fine and probably only a few people wondered why we played a 4-minute intro to the song ...

The rest of the set went down very good, especially the third tune in the set, Open Your Eyes, which is one of my absolute favourites. And after this, the next two tunes were spiced up additionally with the help of our guest trumpet player, Antonio Montanaro, so that we left a seriously worked up crowd when we took our break.

The temperature level in the room had by then reached astounding heights, so that we had to urge the people to leave the room during the break, so as they can get some fresh air and at the same time let the room cool down somewhat.

After the break, we took off where we left with Sugar & Spice, a groovy, ass-kickin' blues and continued with Slam, a summery, slightly latin-funk tune. After that, we chilled out somewhat with Le Lis, which we arranged with soprano sax and flugelhorn, making it very very mellow.

After Le Lis, we pushed down the throttle again a bit and followed up with The Chicken, a good old groovy tune by Pee Wee Ellis and closed the set with Stratus, our bands all-time favourite.

 
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As musicians tradition demands, we went off to the back room to wait for the crowd to call us out for the encores. Once we were all in that small, chilly room, we realized that there was no light switch and the room was pitch black ... so we were quite glad that really somebody yelled for an encore and we had an excuse to get out of that room again. As we had to finish at midnight sharp, lest we get the police as new, unfriendly houseguests, we only played Mercy Mercy Mercy as an encore.

After the encore, we did what we had to do, got together and bowed to the crowd and then it was the moment we all had waited for ... Champagne time! We got the bottles and glasses from the back room and offered a glass of that sparkly stuff to all the people who at one time or another were involved with our CD project.

When the last bottle was finished, the less pleasant things began again, breaking down and packing all the equipment and transporting it home ... but in the end, the cheering crowd was well worth all this work.

 
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