As I took the stage at the Flat Iron on Friday, February 9th, the clock approached 10 pm. I thought I was going on too early. But, as it would play out, the crowd thinned out over the next hour. In the last few songs of my set, I played to ten people. Listening back to the performance, it wasn’t like I sucked or anything like that. I guess asking people in their 40s and 50s to stay out until midnight is a big ask. It’s like 10 pm is the new midnight.

My setlist was an expansion of what I performed in Hillsborough a few weeks prior. I added a few songs and a few covers.

In spite of the challenges, I enjoyed this particular set. I got to play my usual gig piano, which ended up sounding pretty good. My favorite song of the night was “Sailing to Byzantium,” one of the more difficult songs to play on the piano. I ended up cutting three songs, “Oceans,” “Dive,” and “Stumble.”