somedays it's different

shouldnt be so long between blog posts i know. apologies kids. the last couple of weeks, with gigs , rehearsals and a new found love of garage band have kept me pretty busy. the band show at the troubadour was alot of fun; despite our man with the licks being ill and not being able to play , and the four of us not being able to hear a single note of what each other was playing..it went down really well. the 60-odd turn out surprised me a little bit..i probably shouldnt say that ;) . but for all of them to turn out on a rainy tuesday night for a 10.30 show put a big smile on my face (the rider kindly provided by the promoter also helped in that department). This next week's shows, starting this afternoon on brick lane will be with all five of us - i've yet to do more than two shows in a row with the same line -up. That's a good thing for me, and where possible i'll try and go the same. it just gives it that extra bit of excitement not having a completely sense of how the 45 minutes on stage will turn out. it's probably not the best for "marketing" a band, on a side note i've lost all understanding of what that even means for a songwriter in 2008 - but that's for another time - but that's not why i wrote these songs in the first place. no one writes a piece of music or picks a guitar for the first time thinking it'll lead somewhere. that would be just silly and the music you'd make would no doubt be junk. anyway, i digress..band shows..solo shows..me and Alex on the cello shows..Phili drum solo shows..it's all goodtimes goodtimes!

Photo from the Troubadour Jan 15th.
From left; Alex Beamont, Phil Baer, DJ Yoda, Matt Webster