"I thought that if you had an acoustic guitar, then it meant that you were a protest singer."
This was partly a band audition and partly a date as this person from match had contacted me after seeing that I mentioned that I played guitar on my profile. We got chatting and I sent her a demo of me playing; she liked it and so we met up for a drink.
She'd been living overseas for a long time and had recently moved back to Brighton after running a music newspaper/magazine abroad and being the lead singer in a band. I checked out some of her stuff online and she really could sing. She was also a voiceover artist.
Now that she'd been back in the UK for a couple of months, she wanted to form a duo and she needed a guitarist; and that was where I supposedly came in. We discussed meeting up for a jamming session and to see if we could work together, which was exciting.
In terms of the date part, I found it quite difficult to work her out as she was really drunk when she turned up. She'd met a friend for dinner beforehand so had already made good headway in terms of red wine consumption. I think we only ended up having a couple of drinks as she was trying to drink a lot of water at the same time as having a couple more glasses of wine. I liked her but towards the end I was struggling to make much sense of her which was why we called it an earlyish night.
She texted me the next day saying it had been great to meet me and she profusely apologised for her inebriated state. She said she'd also be in touch in terms of us getting together for the band thing. I never heard from her and contacted her a couple of months later and she said she'd been busy and would let me know when things had calmed down, so I just left it.
