Hello Everyone.
I thought that I would finally post only my 2nd blog entry in the history of the blog I think.. I'm going to try and do entries a bit more regularly now though considering that quite a few things are happening with us now. Feel free to write abusive messages on our message board if the next one I write is in February!
Anyway, firstly thank you to everyone who came out The Metro gig, we generally thought it went quite well all things considered. We only had a 5 minute soundcheck and being first on meant that there was hardly anyone in the venue when we were asked to get on stage, I'm not whinging because the one thing that made me laugh was that neither myself or any of the other guys were surprised about this. I think this is quite telling of the change in attitude in the band really, where we are now quite used to constantly having to make compromises because of the nature of the live 'circuit'. Having said that, we always endeavor to rock, which we did and as far as I'm concerned, makes all the bollocks worthwhile.
Perhaps the best thing about the gig was that everyone who came said that the new songs were the best in the set. This obviously cued me to make a few jokes to a people who said this.. for example: 'Yeah, I'm really happy that we're developing a more mature sound, one might say a departure from our older material..' or 'It's great that we're finally getting the songs to sound like they do in my head'.. That's a personal favourite of mine. The truth is I was really happy, as we all were I think, because we really enjoyed playing them. So anyway, we want to learn a whole new set before we go on tour in February (See News for details!!), which we have January to do as December action will be limited due to the dutiful attitude of all band members.. maybe. Brown and I will be rocking some acoustic open mike nights soon because we have a perverse curiosity about how we would go down and it means that we can play all our bitchin' acoustic songs that we never get to play!
So that's about it for now. This week there is a band outing to an Elena gig (She produced our 3rd demo and although we have different ideas of how to go about the rocking, she is good fun, very entertaining and is always pleased to see us!), it's Tuesday night at The Marquee. I'd say she sounds a bit like Coldplay, Catatonia and Texas with a European feel, she is Italian (And a mentalist).
Finally, and I hate to end on a sour note but our good (and perhaps only) friends who are in a band End of the New broke the saddening news that their drummer Gary didn't want to play with them anymore. Apparently, it was old-fashioned musical differences which I guess is fair enough, but personally I'm pretty gutted for them especially as they had 4 gigs lined up. Personally, I think he could have at least played them. If anyone knows a drummer who is into noisy art-rock and wants to play with some good guys and a nice girl contact them through their website: www.endofthenew.com
Don't despair guys, just look at The Beatles, Nirvana and Spinal Tap.
Ok, until next time..
'Take good care, take good care now, it's your life, it's your life'
WFA
I thought that I would finally post only my 2nd blog entry in the history of the blog I think.. I'm going to try and do entries a bit more regularly now though considering that quite a few things are happening with us now. Feel free to write abusive messages on our message board if the next one I write is in February!
Anyway, firstly thank you to everyone who came out The Metro gig, we generally thought it went quite well all things considered. We only had a 5 minute soundcheck and being first on meant that there was hardly anyone in the venue when we were asked to get on stage, I'm not whinging because the one thing that made me laugh was that neither myself or any of the other guys were surprised about this. I think this is quite telling of the change in attitude in the band really, where we are now quite used to constantly having to make compromises because of the nature of the live 'circuit'. Having said that, we always endeavor to rock, which we did and as far as I'm concerned, makes all the bollocks worthwhile.
Perhaps the best thing about the gig was that everyone who came said that the new songs were the best in the set. This obviously cued me to make a few jokes to a people who said this.. for example: 'Yeah, I'm really happy that we're developing a more mature sound, one might say a departure from our older material..' or 'It's great that we're finally getting the songs to sound like they do in my head'.. That's a personal favourite of mine. The truth is I was really happy, as we all were I think, because we really enjoyed playing them. So anyway, we want to learn a whole new set before we go on tour in February (See News for details!!), which we have January to do as December action will be limited due to the dutiful attitude of all band members.. maybe. Brown and I will be rocking some acoustic open mike nights soon because we have a perverse curiosity about how we would go down and it means that we can play all our bitchin' acoustic songs that we never get to play!
So that's about it for now. This week there is a band outing to an Elena gig (She produced our 3rd demo and although we have different ideas of how to go about the rocking, she is good fun, very entertaining and is always pleased to see us!), it's Tuesday night at The Marquee. I'd say she sounds a bit like Coldplay, Catatonia and Texas with a European feel, she is Italian (And a mentalist).
Finally, and I hate to end on a sour note but our good (and perhaps only) friends who are in a band End of the New broke the saddening news that their drummer Gary didn't want to play with them anymore. Apparently, it was old-fashioned musical differences which I guess is fair enough, but personally I'm pretty gutted for them especially as they had 4 gigs lined up. Personally, I think he could have at least played them. If anyone knows a drummer who is into noisy art-rock and wants to play with some good guys and a nice girl contact them through their website: www.endofthenew.com
Don't despair guys, just look at The Beatles, Nirvana and Spinal Tap.
Ok, until next time..
'Take good care, take good care now, it's your life, it's your life'
WFA
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