Back To Winter….
Day 5:
ZDF is the
biggest TV station Europe and the complex of buildings is massive but we were
able to find the location for ¨Fernsehgarten¨ easily enough and things were
really well organised so it all started out well.
The backstage
facilities were a bit ¨limited¨ and we spent a lot of time waiting (this is
normal for TV shows) but it was all run very professionally so our time slots
came and went smoothly.
It was all ¨playback¨
so I just had to concentrate on remembering the original arrangement of Lady In
Black.
Because we
were headlining this show we got to do two songs and I had prepared a specially
edited version of We´re on our Way for our first song.
Fernsehgarten
is a weekly outdoor show on ZDF that runs from May to September and this edition
was special because it was the first of the year and the station´s 300th
broadcast. There will be around 5000 people in the live audience and an
estimated 3.5 million in the TV audience so it´s a real honour to be doing this
show.
In the end the
whole rehearsal ran about 20 minutes behind schedule which is amazing when you
think that this was to be a two-hour live broadcast.
The entire
venue is set up as a giant spectacle with jugglers, people skipping rope, an
aerobatic display and even a guy banging nails into a piece of wood with his
elbow!! (I know, it sounds like a Monty Python sketch but this is a family
show!). Oh and lots of adorable kids dancing jumping and screaming.
It´s going to
be fun.
Back to the
hotel, down the road for a traditional German dinner and then ….. bed!
Another
long day tomorrow.
