Monday, April 30, 2007
The Sequel has Landed
Good evening, and welcome to the second installment of the blog.
We've been busy rehearsing and getting things in place for the single release. We're putting out Good Things on the 1st June, along with Sleepwalking, as our debut release. Colin has been doing the do and putting together everything and today it appeared on ITunes and Napster - we're also pressing up 1,000 copies (eek!) and plan to punt these via shops, gigs, radio etc. We might end up selling loads, we might not. Who knows - but it feels good to have a proper single out, so the ego's pretty chuffed.
Had a top practice last week at Banana Row. Steve had come up with a couple of tune ideas that I mentioned in the last spiel, and we had a go at them. It was one of those nights when we were all a bit beat going in, but when we came out we were buzzing. For me, that's the greatest thing about being in a band/playing music - the buzz you get after having a cracking session with your mates. Gigs can be good, of course, but a good rehearsal is something far better for my soul.
The initial jamm around the idea tends to dictate whether or not the idea is something that we'll take on and develop into a tune. If the collective vibe is good early on then you know you've caught something and last week we hope we've caught a couple of beauties. One of the tracks is a wee bit more typical for us in that it's a minor key based tune - i.e. pretty melancholic/miserable - you decide! I'm really into it though - what with being melanc...etc. - and hope that by the next time we hook up I can have something penned for it. I've got a verse and chorus idea and so far so good. Steve's melody has got a bit of a John Barryesque feel to it initially but then he twists it into something a wee bit darker. Colin was coming up with some lovely beats and Ewan, like me is feeling around a wee bit more and suggested another 'bit' as I like to call 'middle eights'. Bit of work to do but I reckon we've got a contender.
The other idea rolled out of the boys like the river, stopped by a dam for 100 years and being let loose by a kindly flock of dam-demolition-expert-angels - free at last, the glam stone-age-rockers in them, were free at last!
Ewan belted out a fecking cracking bolanesque bass line, after Steve suggested that his riff should be supported by a pounding glam rock/queens of the stone age type groove. Colin immediately took up the mantle and melted majestically pounding beats over the guitars - it was a beautiful moment as Steve's riff hooked in and the three of them combined to create what I reckon has already become - the favourite one to play! Really looking forward to nailing this one and getting it into the set in time for The Proclaimers gigs.
Looking forward to the next practice - Wednesday coming. We'll work the new ones up more, and Steve is plugging in the old boy again and is going to try out the electric (Judas!) on a few of the tunes. We reckon that in bigger venues - what bigger than your usual 50 capacity haunts I hear you sneer - the guitar ain't cutting through the way it ought to do - now there's a lyric. Really excited about hearing the ahem, axe, on a few of the tracks. Steve knows how to handle an axe, no I'm sorry I can't go on with this dodgy rawk-talk. Let's just say, I reckon it'll work a treat and should compliment Ewan's big muff vibe - oh, there I go again. Right, I'm off.
We've been busy rehearsing and getting things in place for the single release. We're putting out Good Things on the 1st June, along with Sleepwalking, as our debut release. Colin has been doing the do and putting together everything and today it appeared on ITunes and Napster - we're also pressing up 1,000 copies (eek!) and plan to punt these via shops, gigs, radio etc. We might end up selling loads, we might not. Who knows - but it feels good to have a proper single out, so the ego's pretty chuffed.
Had a top practice last week at Banana Row. Steve had come up with a couple of tune ideas that I mentioned in the last spiel, and we had a go at them. It was one of those nights when we were all a bit beat going in, but when we came out we were buzzing. For me, that's the greatest thing about being in a band/playing music - the buzz you get after having a cracking session with your mates. Gigs can be good, of course, but a good rehearsal is something far better for my soul.
The initial jamm around the idea tends to dictate whether or not the idea is something that we'll take on and develop into a tune. If the collective vibe is good early on then you know you've caught something and last week we hope we've caught a couple of beauties. One of the tracks is a wee bit more typical for us in that it's a minor key based tune - i.e. pretty melancholic/miserable - you decide! I'm really into it though - what with being melanc...etc. - and hope that by the next time we hook up I can have something penned for it. I've got a verse and chorus idea and so far so good. Steve's melody has got a bit of a John Barryesque feel to it initially but then he twists it into something a wee bit darker. Colin was coming up with some lovely beats and Ewan, like me is feeling around a wee bit more and suggested another 'bit' as I like to call 'middle eights'. Bit of work to do but I reckon we've got a contender.
The other idea rolled out of the boys like the river, stopped by a dam for 100 years and being let loose by a kindly flock of dam-demolition-expert-angels - free at last, the glam stone-age-rockers in them, were free at last!
Ewan belted out a fecking cracking bolanesque bass line, after Steve suggested that his riff should be supported by a pounding glam rock/queens of the stone age type groove. Colin immediately took up the mantle and melted majestically pounding beats over the guitars - it was a beautiful moment as Steve's riff hooked in and the three of them combined to create what I reckon has already become - the favourite one to play! Really looking forward to nailing this one and getting it into the set in time for The Proclaimers gigs.
Looking forward to the next practice - Wednesday coming. We'll work the new ones up more, and Steve is plugging in the old boy again and is going to try out the electric (Judas!) on a few of the tunes. We reckon that in bigger venues - what bigger than your usual 50 capacity haunts I hear you sneer - the guitar ain't cutting through the way it ought to do - now there's a lyric. Really excited about hearing the ahem, axe, on a few of the tracks. Steve knows how to handle an axe, no I'm sorry I can't go on with this dodgy rawk-talk. Let's just say, I reckon it'll work a treat and should compliment Ewan's big muff vibe - oh, there I go again. Right, I'm off.
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