PAGE 8 CD

Rule 1 is now up on the wall – no playing musical instruments between numbers at rehearsal. It was either that or connect the guitars and drums up to the mains with a switch timed to come on every 15 minutes or so. What it is about musos – can you imagine that at a meeting > Between every item on the agenda everyone just stands up and starts shouting randomly for no apparent reason. Not such a bad idea really I suppose.  . . Well we’re away at last. 30+ numbers in the set list, sound engineer ready to go couple of bookings in the diary.  We took a few of the promo packs around some places last week so hopefully should get some responses from those. Need to get round a few more places now really and phone back those we’ve been to.

On another note – songlists. I think the danger with a band is to fall into the trap of doing too many ballads- especially when you have two girl singers. We did an Eva Cassidy type version of “Ain’t no sunshine” tonight sounded really good but there’s a limit to how many of these people will want to listen to so it’s a lot of work to get one song right that you may very rarely play.  I distinctly remember the feeling at the last wedding we did of thinking – be glad when these slow ones are out of the way because you could feel people wanting an excuse to get up.  But having said all that over 75% are fast so we’ve plenty of material now. Wil was not well tonight so couldn’t make and George had to stay late at work. Hattie was off to look round a university so only the three of us but it was a good session. We’ve just covered rolling in the deep by Adele so that’s a good song. We also need time to do a few more originals we stalled with don’ like Tuesdays and need to get that back on track. Hard work being in a band. – but worth every minute. Well …….. every other minute anyway.

Also had the photo shoot courtesy of Rob and Graeme. these pictures are up on the web site and will soon be in the promo pack which Chessie – from Fresh Designs is in the process of completing for us right now. Hopefully should have them by the end of the week, so we can get out and get some more gigs.

New Song

Well we are now in the process of writing a new song for Hattie. (That’s her on the right). Its called don’t like Tuesdays and the lyrics are at last done.  Not quite got the feel for the bottom line I want yet but we’re getting there.

New Guitarist

As well as that we are in the process of auditioning for a new guitarist. Met Chris last week and spent the whole evening calling him Richard. I have absolutely no idea why I did that but he was a really gifted player. We are auditioning two more people Wednesday this week. Takes for ever all this really it does. Time really is such a great luxury don’t you think?

Promotional material

Also working with Chessie from fresh designs graphic design. (well deserved little plug for her there). 

Tim about to go

Page 8 promo pack is more or less ready now. So you can see why its such a shame that our guitarist has decided to leave as he is on all the band photos we have just had done.

Recording

And of course we now need to record the four songs for the promo disk, which we need for the promo pack. Which means we need the new guitarist in place so we can record and perhaps ought also to get new pictures done…. Our sound engineer is a guy called Phil Pick and he’s been around a bit –  like all of us really I suppose. He just smiles every time. He thinks you have to be insane to try to run a band. Can’t think why.