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Oh Roger, where art thou?

Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
Another session at No Machine. Our keyboard player had an urgent piece of work for tomorrow, so we kind of sang his solos for him in his absence: not nearly as good as the real thing. We're thinking of covering The Headmaster Ritual by The Smiths, in a similar style to how Radiohead covered it in their Podcast. It's a strange thing: we're very comfortable playing our own music but we're not really sure how we should sound when covering a song. We're not really good enough musicians to cover accurately, but we don't seem to be able to "shedify" other peoples' music yet. One more practise before our gig on 23rd May. Read More

Wed 7th May

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
What a scorching hot day, and pretty hot at the rehearsal studios too. We're without Carol this evening (she's on holiday) so we've been practising the 23rd May set with Neil standing in for her.  Still working hard to try and nail "Jane". That calypso break is hard to get just right. We practised a couple of new ones, "Going Away" is coming along nicely but "How Many Times" is going to need a rewrite. Only two more practises before the 23rd. Read More

Some new dates

Sunday, May 4th, 2008
Just thought I'd update here with some new dates for gigs/possible gigs Friday 23rd May. Supporting The Firebyrds at the Bridge House in Bracknell Friday 6th June tbc. Possible at Plug n Play Reading as part of the Weekend Warriors event Friday 13th June tbc . Possibly supporting The Firebyrds at The Gateway pub Reading Sat 5th July. Playing at our Drummer Chris's birthday party Read More

The first post

Saturday, May 3rd, 2008
Here we are on our very own blog site, and the current status is that we are practising for a gig at the Bridge House pub in Bracknell on May 23rd, and recording six tracks. I'm currently working on getting Steve's (guitarist) parts integrated with the existing bass and drum tracks. Read More