14-Feb-10 Bishop fm - live concert

We were the first guest on Terry Ferdinand's new Sunday live one hour concert series (no name for the show yet) - it's quite something, and indeed an honour, to be 'guinea pigs' for each new project that he dreams up.

We took along our Bose L1 sound system and plugged this straight into the studio desk to ensure the critical jiva balance providing our trademark gentle blend of acoustic guitars and vocal harmony. They also used the studio mics to capture the live room ambience in the mix. It sounded good to us in the studio - Gary and Terry were quite animated with thumbs up signs and scribbled messages on a mini whiteboard... at one point Gary wrote that all he needed was a sofa and a beer and he'd be made (it was a little difficult to concentrate on song lyrics while reading these messages).

We played:

• Back Home To You (Allan Taylor)
• When (jiva)
• Love At The Five & Dime (Nanci Griffith)
• Louise (Paul Siebel)
• Dream On (jiva)
• Yorkshire Romance (C J Rowe)
• Some Way Home (jiva)
• Different Dreams (jiva)

It was an hour long programme - play a couple of songs, chat a bit, play a bit, have a jingle or two, play a bit more, and so on. And there was a live telephone call with Anthony John Clarke as well. Phew! The hour, as usual, just flew by - and before we knew it we had just over 4 minutes left and goodbyes to say and one more song to sing... no we didn't finish with that song - we finished with 'Different Dreams', the final flourish/strum being hit with less than a second to spare (how's that for timing).

Thanks for having us along Terry - we had a great time - and good luck for future shows.

 Links
jiva website

jiva MySpace
Terry Ferdinand MySpace
BishopFM