'Oh Alexander, I stood underneath the archway of aerodynamics..'
Howdy to one and all. Well, well done Brown for posting I had actually started writing this on Friday with every intention of putting it up, but was delayed and then Brown put in a cheeky one!
Before his, it was a month and a half since our last blog post which is quite pathetic really, and even that one was Stu’s padded cell breaking out into the band blog with some Phil Collins role play. We are in agreement as a band that we should be doing it regularly so this should change. Obviously it is our duty to keep any people checking out our site up to date with Pearly happenings so the rota starts here…
We are currently rehearsing regularly again after a little lull in band activity. We were starting to look at recording in the summer and getting a wonderfully sounding, well-mastered demo to bombard record companies, journalists and the like with but we ended up working out that it will take quite a while for us to have the money that we need for the demo we want. So recording again is on the backburner for a little while but we are looking at other ideas, Stuart and I will be starting the medical trials very soon in order to raise some money... maybe. We are also now looking into possibility of home recordings.. but there's many a band discussion to be had before anything happens.
You may be aware that we have been selected to go to the Trimis festival, we’re all rather excited about this but are holding back a bit because we still haven’t been given the full details. We hope that there will be an arrangement with expenses being paid because that’s what they have said in theory, but as we all know often in the music industry people don’t really mean what they say. A few of my favourites: ‘Soundcheck will start at (Insert Time) promptly’, ‘You’ll have half an hour to soundcheck’, ‘It’s a great bill, we think you’ll fit in with the other bands’.. etc. Anyway, we are waiting for a response to a few queries about the festival from the organisers, but personally I can’t wait to go to Italy and the festival looks a lot of fun. We’ve never played a battle of the bands before, I generally think they seem a bit lame to me but hey, I’m a bit cynical about that sort of thing.
In my opinion, things are starting to get better again with us: musically we’re starting to experiment more and I think the gigs we will play will be more interesting from here on.. Can anyone say Country influence? Yeah! What can I say.. 'Heartbreaker' by Ryan Adams has bewitched me..
Anyway, I'm listening to all sorts of stuff at the moment which either makes me want more ambitious arrangements in our set or really stripped down stuff.. I could have just said er.. yeah, like I really want us to sound like I hear it in my head.. like...
Roll on The Garage gig!
WFA
Howdy to one and all. Well, well done Brown for posting I had actually started writing this on Friday with every intention of putting it up, but was delayed and then Brown put in a cheeky one!
Before his, it was a month and a half since our last blog post which is quite pathetic really, and even that one was Stu’s padded cell breaking out into the band blog with some Phil Collins role play. We are in agreement as a band that we should be doing it regularly so this should change. Obviously it is our duty to keep any people checking out our site up to date with Pearly happenings so the rota starts here…
We are currently rehearsing regularly again after a little lull in band activity. We were starting to look at recording in the summer and getting a wonderfully sounding, well-mastered demo to bombard record companies, journalists and the like with but we ended up working out that it will take quite a while for us to have the money that we need for the demo we want. So recording again is on the backburner for a little while but we are looking at other ideas, Stuart and I will be starting the medical trials very soon in order to raise some money... maybe. We are also now looking into possibility of home recordings.. but there's many a band discussion to be had before anything happens.
You may be aware that we have been selected to go to the Trimis festival, we’re all rather excited about this but are holding back a bit because we still haven’t been given the full details. We hope that there will be an arrangement with expenses being paid because that’s what they have said in theory, but as we all know often in the music industry people don’t really mean what they say. A few of my favourites: ‘Soundcheck will start at (Insert Time) promptly’, ‘You’ll have half an hour to soundcheck’, ‘It’s a great bill, we think you’ll fit in with the other bands’.. etc. Anyway, we are waiting for a response to a few queries about the festival from the organisers, but personally I can’t wait to go to Italy and the festival looks a lot of fun. We’ve never played a battle of the bands before, I generally think they seem a bit lame to me but hey, I’m a bit cynical about that sort of thing.
In my opinion, things are starting to get better again with us: musically we’re starting to experiment more and I think the gigs we will play will be more interesting from here on.. Can anyone say Country influence? Yeah! What can I say.. 'Heartbreaker' by Ryan Adams has bewitched me..
Anyway, I'm listening to all sorts of stuff at the moment which either makes me want more ambitious arrangements in our set or really stripped down stuff.. I could have just said er.. yeah, like I really want us to sound like I hear it in my head.. like...
Roll on The Garage gig!
WFA
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