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Tim Dowling: have you heard the one about the out-of-tune banjo? My banjo, to be exact

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The band I'm in is in the middle of its autumn tour: Hertford , Stroud, Nottingham , Scunthorpe .

On the third gig of the tour we head to Cornwall to play at Carnglaze Caverns .

Playing in the cavern is frankly amazing, the lighting is dramatic, the acoustics are incredible and the audience can hardly believe their surroundings.

the guitar player says. “I don’t even play the banjo on this one,” I say. As I walk to the back of the stage to exchange my banjo for a guitar a guitar which I will soon discover is also out of tune I have time to reflect on the difference between an audience of several hundred people laughing with you, and laughing at you. The difference, I realise, lies chiefly in forgetting to say: this is part of it..

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