Adventures in the Mouse House

Well, that was fun.

Voltaire arrived late, flustered and jet-lagged. So girfan and I looked after the merchandise stall to give him a chance to get changed. He wasn't sure how much to charge for CDs or what the exchange rate was for the other stuff, so we set the prices too.

Because I've mostly seen Voltaire live at Convergence, it had somehow escaped me that a lot of his fan base is really, really young. I was sort of confused about that till he rolled out the title song from his new album, Raised by Bats, that I realised he sings a lot of songs about growing up in a crappy small town where nobody understands you. Oh. I see.

I think every time I see him there's less music and more ramblings. Which is OK by me, because he's side-splittingly funny and if I want to listen to the music, the CDs have the songs performed with a full band.

The filthy Doctor Who song is less hilarious when you know the punch line going in. But I so related to his rant about how he doesn't get Doctor Who. The pornographic tribble song is even filthier and funnier than I remembered. I bought a copy of BiTrektual last night so now I can get tired of them at leisure.

I've forgotten the words to When You're Evil. That's embarrassing.

Can't wait till the new album comes out - he's got a lot of top-notch people contributing to it.

I also grabbed a Candy Claws cuddly toy - I was too cheap to pay for shipping when he brought it out, so I was really hoping that he'd bring some along. I do hope that the supply he brought last night was just for last night and not supposed to last the whole tour, because we sold a crapload of them (apparently everybody is too cheap to pay for shipping) and there were very few left at the end.

Awesome fun. Today is going to be a long day.