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I am now certain that there is something written in the sky that says that I am destined to have the crazyest gigs ever. I thought that playing in a pedal boat was crazy. 
Today I played with a band of 10 musicians as part of a shooting for hidden-camera gags. We did 2 gags wich lasted about 5 minutes each but we had to re-do each gag in alternance over and over and over. It took all day.
The first gag consisted of a religious ceromony in a park. There was a statue of the Virgin Mary wearing some kind of a cloth. Then at some point, the "victim" is asked to light up a candle and you've guessed it, the Virgin Mary catches on fire, and I mean not just a little, it kinda went "Woof!"
The band, well we're not doing anything other than pretending to look scared and get out of the way when a fake fireman puts-off the fire with a (real) extinguisher revealing a calcinated, barely recognisable Mother Mary.
In the second gag,our band was marching behind a funeral procession playing obviously, a funeral march when all of a suddent the band switches to Quando Quando (with the Samba whiste, cowbells and all) the whole procession starts dancing and grooving, the men carrying the coffin (a fake) swing the coffin back and foward, throw it up in the air and catch it. You'd have to be there to see it, it was absolutely hillarious.
So what did I do today? Oh I got paid to watch setting fire to the Virgin Mary 15 times and for some reason, I can't stop hearing Quando Quando in my mind!!! :help:
Today I played with a band of 10 musicians as part of a shooting for hidden-camera gags. We did 2 gags wich lasted about 5 minutes each but we had to re-do each gag in alternance over and over and over. It took all day.
The first gag consisted of a religious ceromony in a park. There was a statue of the Virgin Mary wearing some kind of a cloth. Then at some point, the "victim" is asked to light up a candle and you've guessed it, the Virgin Mary catches on fire, and I mean not just a little, it kinda went "Woof!"
The band, well we're not doing anything other than pretending to look scared and get out of the way when a fake fireman puts-off the fire with a (real) extinguisher revealing a calcinated, barely recognisable Mother Mary.
In the second gag,our band was marching behind a funeral procession playing obviously, a funeral march when all of a suddent the band switches to Quando Quando (with the Samba whiste, cowbells and all) the whole procession starts dancing and grooving, the men carrying the coffin (a fake) swing the coffin back and foward, throw it up in the air and catch it. You'd have to be there to see it, it was absolutely hillarious.
So what did I do today? Oh I got paid to watch setting fire to the Virgin Mary 15 times and for some reason, I can't stop hearing Quando Quando in my mind!!! :help:
