Saturday 31 January 2015

Today's rehearsal

Today's rehearsal included a play through of a different set to last time.
A possible first set for our upcoming pub gig.
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Sunday 25 January 2015

Wednesday 14 January 2015

Back in the Studio and we will soon be on the Radio.

Last Saturday was the first rehearsal of the year at Survival Studios in Acton (where else). I thought it went pretty well. We mostly worked on the harder numbers and finally played, for the first time, the whole of Echidna; the last section still needs plenty of work. Lynne turned up about 30mins before we finished and took some pics and video but the camera ran out of memory so I've now ordered a new bigger memory card for it.



I recorded everything, except our warm-up Chunga's Revenge on my Zoom and IMHO the best sounding tracks are "Oh No" and "Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance" so when I had a request from Andrew Greenaway for a couple of tracks to play on his radio show, to help promote Festival MOO-AH, these were the two tracks I sent him.

As to the festival, on Friday 20th March, we need to drive up to Corby in the morning for a soundcheck in the afternoon and we'll go on stage around 8pm or possibly a little earlier. We will be the first band to play and Ian has requested that we start playing something to pull the audience into the hall and then he will make a brief announcement about the festival. I was thinking of Chunga for this but am now thinking Oh No might be better. Our set will be around 45mins and John and Tom have requested a set list so I need to put a provisional list together soon, certainly before our rehearsal this coming Saturday - watch this space.