Day seven, eight and nine

Three very long days. First up and we're in Nambucca on the Holloway road. Mike's still not feeling all that great after his day off and we're now worrying that he's going to have to go and have a check up. Shoot the late scenes of the film, including the scene where Stevie stands at the side of the stage and is then plunged into darkness as the band on stage finish. This is a very complicated set up, made more bearable by the fact that the band on stage are Sunnyvale (minus me). I even get them a line in another scene. We have a ton of extras, and finish just in time for me to run over the road and watch the second half of the Chelsea game.

Next day and the leaking roof means we have to watch out for water everywhere. The plus is that today we have the band for one of the opening scenes, and we've lined up a band called Betty and the werewolves to perform. They're great fun and very patient, and remarkably enough have seen the Trophy Girlfriend video I made for Heavenly and love it. Youtube has a lot to answer for. Finish off with a late exterior where Stevie tries to get Billy to join the band. It's a complicated shot and takes an age, but at least it's not raining. Get home at midnight and go straight to bed.

Then up early and off to a new bar, Melange on Kingsland road, for the middle pub gig. Todays guest band are Comet Gain, which would be exciting enough in it's own right, but on bass they've also got James Canty from the Make up and NoU on bass. It's indie legends in full efeect. Even better is the fact Mike is finally on the mend and actually looking vaguely human. The day is a light one, we even wrap a little ahead of schedule. Better still is the fact tomorrow is a day off (well, into the edit suite), then the weekend will be office interiors in vauxhall.

If we can just have good weather for the last five or so exterior scenes we have then it can piss down all summer for all I care. Over a third of the way through (I think) and it's more fun now than it was at first. The cast all mess about together, the crew are great and people ask me less questions now. Not sure if that's because they now know the answer to some of them or they thinnk I'm a fuckwit. Either way I'm good with it.