If you are even slightly musically-gifted, work up the courage and get on stage yourself.
And if you're thinking of getting up on stage yourself, a few nights – like the White Rabbit in North Laine on Thursday, have a house guitar to hand too.
And how conscious have you been of the presence of your great predecessors in the building while you've been working on the Old Vic stage yourself?
If you prefer to take the stage yourself, stop by for "cakearoke" on Tuesdays: "a pastry positive environment, with karaoke choices you won't see anywhere else".
If you're round about the midlife stage yourself, or you've been in a relationship for a while, and it's not quite how it was, and maybe you hate their effing guts, then this will all hit home to hurting point.
And even if you aren't interested in pitching on stage yourself, the Meetups are a great opportunity to network with the local tech community and meet TechCrunch writers.
You can also save money by doing most of the staging work yourself.
"I always explain that as the teller, you have the stage to yourself," Ms. Jones said.
It can't be helped: when you're on a stage, being yourself is bound to become a bit of an act, just as Nigel Farage really does like beer a lot.
Duval herself said that La Voix Humaine was "a killer, not only because you have the stage to yourself for its entire length, but because the phrasing is sometimes long, sometimes short, always in a low key, half singing half parlando".
