Doing Live Gig's causes a sharpening of the work force towards the object - Wha!? What d'ja mean John... erm I mean I spent a few days making sure I had my songs rehearsed and a set list chosen with balanced material on it. Balanced - I mean a few songs of every sort - not too heavily political , or too light - children's songs or too masculine or too feminine. Makes me sharper performer and keeps me in shape like an athlete does ready for action. It's also interesting to get reactions of people who are invited - one person who I told about gig seemed to want me to be something else or someone else - that's kinda hard! but I need to listen to a possible audience and read into criticism ( it was mild) so for this gig I learned some covers as he had suggested - a good move - my mild questioner asked - why didn't I do covers of Irish rebel songs. I guess cause there's only 'now' and whatever fight they fought over is long gone. I was very hearten