TestingTesting has largely been a music show webcast from my living room. We have occasionally moved out of the living room onto the concert stage. Promoting concerts has its ups but it also is a recipe for nervous breakdowns as you face financial ruin if the ticket buyers don't show up to cover your costs.

Earlier this year, we did a couple of webcasts from Robbie Cribb's new house and recording studio, Sound Trap Studios. Robbie had a house concert with Gideon Freudmann and we did a Monday night TestingTesting with Small Potatoes. As Scott Marrs said when he walked into the room, before Gideon's show, "This isn't a perfect place for a house concert. This is *the* perfect place for a house concert."

Robbie, Marnie, Zoe, and I got together and we decided to try a small concert series and call it Live at Soundtrap. I spent yesterday doing a poster and getting a website up for this new venture. Karin Blaine, who has been on TT before, will be our first performer. This will give performers a chance to show more than they can in the living room format. The TT House Band will open and there will be a show guestbook for you to enter comments during the show, which I will read to Karin. If you can make it to the show, do so. It will be great fun. If you can't make it to the show, click on in to TestingTesting Saturday night, June 21. We are advertising a 7:30 start for those at the show but I think it will actually get going around 7:45.

Live at Sound Trap