When I'm onstage my confidence gets a huge boost!
I hope this forum is the right place to share this.
In real life I'm self-effacting and quite shy like my sisters. But as soon as we have a concert and get onstage, our confidence kicks in to give us a massive boost. As I sing and play, I feel my whole personality change. Our regular fans see it and react. While leading I make eye contact with the ones up the front and I see their excitement and happy faces. My partner loves it when I belt out our songs loud and clear - and the pre-concert nervousness just melts away. I become a different person, but then I've had lots of vocal training and up to recently, a personal trainer to improve my physical fitness. I'm much fitter now than I've ever been and this is specially good because performing takes a lot out, but then, many performers know this from experience.
To our delight, we've got a gig this coming December and it's lucrative, too. YAY! :hyper: One of my partner's clients has a wedding anniversary so she and her husband are combining it to treat their company staff, so that means we're going to have an audience of 200 with their family included. Today the husband and wife lunched with us, afterwhich we took them to our soundproof room and with my band, gave them a taste of our repertoir. They absolutely loved it, and gave my partner a big deposit and signed our contract. The venue we'll be performing is big, but has no staging so we'll be bringing our own, a Stageline SL260.
Last year we bought live performance gear from Martin Audio. They do the big bands at Glastonbury, but cater for smaller bands, too. We bought some of their muli-cellular loudspeaker array (MLA) speakers, a pair of horns and monitors and the difference the audio has made, really attracts an audience. We've been needing to upgrade our stage speakers and boy, these arrays have vastly improved our sound.
Every time we have a gig, be it at a hotel or night club venue in Majorca, or outside where we perform on our mobile stage, we get a good press even though it's local. Now my little sister will be joining us to make 5 band members, it's going to do her a world of good.
How I wish though that in real life, I could be as confident. When back home though, I feel much better and more so when fans recognise my partner and I and ask for autographs. Maybe after this gig next month, things will start looking up. And that would be wonderful.
