Day 19 - Finale, LIVE

Another surprisingly long day but we had a LOT of fun . .

It all started with another cafe solo . . .

Eric had finished is bass but decided to make a thumb rest (don't ask) . . .

. . . and starting building tool cabinets for sale at 5 Euros each . . .

It is probably the time to share that instructions in the workshop were always VERY precise . . .

I had real work to do in finally assembling the pickups, completing the wiring . . .

. . . attaching the neck, fitting the bridge and tailpiece, finishing the back cover, putting on the strings . . .

. . .  and MAGIC . . . . It actually worked!

Eric decided to get a bit arty and take a knob's eye view of the Jaguar top . .

Then of course is the fiddly stuff of ensuring the neck is still straight under string tension and checking octaves, string heights and relative power from bridge and neck pickups . . .

We jammed and rehearsed for tonight's gig . . .

We signed the guest book . .

We had a quick lunch with rose wine, fundador and hierbas in Can Forn.

We jammed again . . .

We popped home to get showered and changed and returned to the workshop at 9pm. The team were getting nervous so we rehearsed again . . .

Then off for the gig in the placa de l'eglesia in San Ferran, Formentera as a preview for thre big festival next weekend.

We had a beer and a hierbas to calm our nerves then after the local Pagesse band stopped we took to the stage  . . . .

Live at the El Mocambo it wasn't, but it was pretty good. No-one walked off, more people came into the square and we performed to about 100 people and the TV crew from ARTE who filmed us for their documentary . .

When we finished we got requests for more, so we performed the 'Hierbas Blues' . . .

The ARTE crew demanded we sign away all rights to our TV image . . .

Then they were happy . . .

We went to the bar and celebrated in our new found fame . . .

At 1am we went to the 'Irish' to watc h Chimichurri who were excellent as always. Sadly we had a bigger crowd than them but that was not due to talent just the time of night . .

We got home about 4am and the hardest of our team got to bed at 6am . . .

It is now Saturday morning at beer o'clock and we are cleaning the workshop and saying our goodbyes . .

I am waiting for Eric to sober up to get me the photos and VIDEO to make this post more interesting . . YES, SOME HAVE NOW ARRIVED AND THIS POST HAS BEEN UPDATED !

Hasta!