Duet with Meatloaf (continued)
Greetings from Egypt where we are having a last minute half term break. For those of you left in snowy UK you probably don’t want to hear that James has burnt his ears as usual, I’ve read the first 3 pages of my novel about 4 times and Anna has so far managed to eat 4 ice creams and have chips every day. It’s not all fun though as we accidentally left the boys bedtime cuddly toys in the car in the rather stressful frenzy that was getting to the airport on time, and they haven’t slept in their cots as a result – it took over 3 hours to get them off to sleep last night without them!
Back to the subject in hand. I still hadn’t memorised all of the words when the car came to take me to the studio and was feeling absolutely exhausted, as for some reason known only to Seth, he decided to stay awake for a large portion of the night and felt very strongly that I should join him in his nocturnal activities.
Meatloaf was delighted to see me –he is almost like a rather over-grown puppy; more Rottweiler than Cocker Spaniel though. I discovered that I knew a few of the violinists in the orchestra which was nice, and the rehearsal went okay except the sound wasn’t great –I couldn’t really hear myself at all but they promised to turn me up. I was amazed to have a small choir behind me and they even had 4 string players on stage although it must have been a bit galling for the orchestra to be playing in the ‘pit’ whilst 4 very young and very good looking people play along with them in shot!
I’m still not entirely sure why they chose an interior designer as a judge on the programme but Mr Lewellyn Bowen seemed like a very nice bloke and gave me a lovely candle that I presume he designed. It was also nice to see Alan Titchmarsh again and I was very touched he remembered me from when I sang on the pilot for his talk show. I was treated very well as the guest opera singer and felt great trying on lots of designer dresses and having my hair and make-up done. I can tell you from everything I saw backstage that there has been a LOT of money spent on this show. They kept asking what kind of look I wanted:
“The kind that hides the fact I’ve had 3 hours sleep!”
So I would tell you about the performance but you can see that on youtube somewhere no doubt. Meatloaf was larger than life, as expected, and has SO much energy especially when you think he is a man of 62. All in all a fun experience and they decided to pre-record my slot at 8:45 just before the show went out. So I had the even more surreal experience of getting home just in time to watch myself on the box with Anna and James. How weird is that?
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david
2:06 pm, February 19, 2010
Thanks for part two Juliette
How will James manage with a headset over burnt ears!
The duet has certainly raised a lot of interest…all good fun, as you say.
Enjoy the warm…the snow is melting here!
D
Lee
2:36 pm, February 19, 2010
Egypt? My invite must have got lost in the post.
The duet with Meatloaf was definitely unusual. When is the CD out?
Enjoy your break…better than the murky stuff we’re getting.
Lee
Julian event360
6:02 pm, April 12, 2010
Lovely to hear all your news (wonderfully entertaining blog!). I wish you James and the boys well and hope that we will see you all soon. Best wishes from all at event360.
Irene
4:18 am, May 28, 2010
If you don’t mind my asking, did you and/or Meat Loaf choose to perform the shortened version of the song or did they make you do it that way for the show? The full-length version would have been so much more awesome! Your duet was quite a change from the other versions I’ve heard.
Interesting that you say you couldn’t really hear yourself at rehearsals. In the actual performance, those of us watching at home could hear you better then I think you realised: you don’t have to hold your microphone so close! Your volume was overpowering Meat a bit at times, which is something most singers who are used to always being amplified can’t even imagine being able to do.
Juliette
9:04 pm, June 2, 2010
I don’t mind you asking at all. It was actually the TV producers. As it was they thought it was too long for the slot in the show, but I got the impression that Meat felt it shouldn’t be cut anymore!