Hardest day of work

Sunday April 8th. It has become a blur, the day lasted two days with 20 minutes sleep. an extraordinary meeting happened at 7pm on the first half of the two days. A meeting of supreme focus, to request new footage and oral histories that really had to be included, for the sake of professional relationships. Meanwhile the archive still not quite in position, with some perspex fronts not the right size... We spent hours running backwards and forwards with film and photo content on USB sticks, the files too big to export. Nathan at Sal's shoulder, editing what she had the brain space to delegate. Meanwhile permissions for copyright were coming and going.... you can't use this, you can this... You can't use the Harold Wilson, White Heat speech... Jon, requested the transcript of the speech, disappeared into a dressing room with his recording set up. Fashioned his voice, pitch shifted it and Harold Wilson appeared, job done! 24 hour printers were used to print the give-away postcard... print was collected at 5am. We fell asleep briefly onstage on beanbags. The finale was completed at 6.30am. We grabbed a cab home for showers and clean clothes. To return for press calls and interviews at 9.15am. All day we met folks, talked about the exhibition. The Guardian came in first, a reporter who had seen us first in Edinburgh with the very first KlangHaus. He turned his review around within hours.... More tours, an interview with Concrete Magazine, Aesthetica Magazine...the speeches...Jude Kelly and her successor, reeling out speeches, but proudly saying, the whole Concrete Dreams Team slept onstage together to get the job done... legacy....THe QEH opened with the Chineke Orchestra, I had been looking forward to it for weeks, but couldn't go knowing I would fall asleep. We sat on an island of a table, with booze, I barely drank, again, knowing I'd lose myself, we laughed and chatted and tables we're cleared around us, re-laid and moved again. We gathered in huddles outside, smoked fags and laughed. later that night we slept.