Hazel Wood Girl by Judy May

Author:Judy May [Judy May]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9781847174789
Publisher: The O'Brien Press
Published: 2012-01-28T16:00:00+00:00

DAY THIRTY-EIGHT

From the minute the sun first hit the window right up until evening rehearsal, I was working out plans to get a big enough audience to make the gig a success. I came up with every idea short of stopping each person on the main street and begging them on my knees (although I am even keeping that one in reserve). Several ideas got binned early on, including ones that involved Rollerblades, swimsuits and dressing up in a rooster costume. Going down more sophisticated routes, I now have the phone numbers for the local paper, the radio station, the big businesses like the hotel, and all the places where we put the audition notices (except the town hall, of course).

Luckily Mum knows just about everything there is to know on the planet and taught me how to write a press release to send in to the newspapers and media people like the radio station.

‘A press release has to be very short because they don’t have much time to read things,’ Mum explained. ‘Be sure to include all the details such as the name of the band, where and when it is, and how much the tickets are. It also has to have something in it that will make it an interesting news story, not just another band putting on a show.’

Mum, Adam and Dad all talked it through in detail with me at lunch time and we decided that what will interest the media is the fact that Beau is in the band and it’s to get money for his cousin, and the fact that Christophe only moved here a few weeks ago, and that Em-J’s mum works in the very place where the fire was.

They were surprised that I’m not actually in the band so I told them that I prefer being behind the scenes. And they gave me ‘yeah, right,’ looks, so fingers crossed Mum doesn’t start making her famous phone calls.

Tonight, when I was watching them rehearse, I felt a bit sad and knew I would do anything to be in the band, but it’s too late now. And I am happy to be included even this much.

I asked Em-J to ask Christophe to design the poster, and Em-J is going to find the equipment, the amps, mikes and mixing-board and all that. We also need to get a sound engineer for the night. I had no idea that there would be so much involved. I have to go to bed now so I don’t doze off during the early rehearsal in the barn in the morning.

First, I am going to run down to the Hazel Wood and hang my sneakers on the note-leaving tree. If Christophe gets the idea he might decorate them for me, and if not I can say I was just mucking about and accidentally left them there. I kind of miss our Hazel Wood thing, it’s like there are two totally different people, Christophe who’s just a co-worker (and a slightly stuck-up one at that), and The Watcher who knows me and is there for me.

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