My Leipzig mitbewohner: Dan, Florian, Ina, Pauline, Denise, Matze. Apologies for the poor quality and the dearth of photos. I got carried away doing other things.
Tonelli's Circus is a bar in Leipzig. It's Thursday. It's packed. (side note: I can't remember the rule about apostrophes. I am ashamed.) We go in through red velvet curtains. A bar maid shoots through the crowd like a hunting shark, delivering beer and whisking empty glasses away with deadly efficiency.
It's open mic night. It is deliciously cheesy. The house band are totally, completely great. They smile as they accompany renditions of Evanessence - bring me to life, that Celine Dion song about love being like a rose, some German songs I don't know and many others.
The open mic ends, the band have a break. I am the 'special guest' from England. I play with the band. We do meandering jazz versions of songs that we know and songs that we don't. I think at one point we forgot there was an audience. The night winds down. I sing 'Easy Like Sunday Morning' with a great girl who lives next door to the bar and so sings here often. The band play a lot of Police tunes. We go home. Tonelli's at the end of the night: -
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