Silver Lights Live (4 weeks today...)

We had a thoroughly enjoyable three-hour band rehearsal last night. I turned up terrified and wanting to call the whole thing off, but once we got going I got into it and enjoyed myself. We already have four songs that are pretty much playable, so if all else fails we can just do those on repeat and complete a 90-minute set that way. Would people, even drunk, get fed up with “Summer of ‘69” if it came round five times in one evening? I guess we’ll find out soon… 
The gig itself is Easter Bank Holiday Monday. I’m worried that people won’t be drinking enough because they’re back to work the next day, but apparently that was the only day that weekend when the pub wasn’t doing something else in the function room. The ‘event’ starts quite early though, so hopefully the attitude will be ‘we’ll get hammered by the evening then go home and sleep it off.’ Other people’s behaviour is beyond my control, of course, but imagining scenarios where everything goes how I want it to is helping to offset my nerves and lack of self-belief. 
I have to say it’s nice to have something to occupy myself with on a dull Sunday evening, and I’m finding it helps a lot with the old ‘Monday Morning’ blues as well. It’s not so much of a trial dragging myself out of bed and into the garage for another week when I’m still buzzing from having a music session the night before. 
I have to say too, that this work expansion thing seems to be turning out ok after all. I mean - I’d never admit that my pessimism was misplaced and my superiors may have known what they were doing after all..,.. but we seem to have taken the changes in our stride and everyone seems to be happy. I had imagined that anyone willing to work overnight would be a drugged-up dreggy drongo, but in fact our two new members of staff are both terribly pleasant and very clever - they just happen to have lifestyles and circumstances that fit nicely with them working unsociable hours. They’ve slotted in well, they’ve picked up the various aspects of the job very quickly, and it’s all hunky-dory and Hurrahsville so far.  What I want to do now is get them involved with the other members of the team so they’re not just working on an isolated island of overnight employment and can actually feel like they’re part of something. But I‘m finding it difficult. How do you organise a social event for a group of people who all work different shifts on different days and between them cover 24 hours a day, 7 days a week?
Maybe we can close the garage on Easter Monday and get them all to come to the gig. 

RC 20-3-17