Wow, through the tunnel, so many people to meet, contacts to exchange... but ... . The logistics are costly. 500 miles from where I live. Camping for the weekend (I hate camping and don't own a tent). Need to put my soulmate dog in kennels for five days. Only a "fascinator" saxophonist with no chance of doing my own ambient techno set. Budget offered would cover about a 1/4 of total costs and as I mentioned there is no opportunity for me to play my own live ambient techno set, so I decided to decline.
Last night's dj/sax gig was excellent, I used a looper, fx pedal and the loops sounded really good. It was almost my own electronic music gig, right or wrong, it turned into a set of funky house electronica, transcending the average Saturday night House set. The tools at my hands - saxophone through looper, delay, reverb and harmoniser put me into producer/remixer mode and the set was fabulous - and fabulous costs more than a few Euros for travel expenses (a quarter of actual costs).
