Sunday Rehersal

We had a rehersal session this arvo. Together about three and a half hours with two decent breaks. No new material as such (except for an impromptu 'Black is Black'(! )). Ran through Lady Bug Love for the first time in a year - very jazz.

Jean Jeanie, Tear Us Apart, Time of Our Lives, Whole Lotta Love, Evie (Pt 1), R U Gonna Be My Girl, Paint it Black, It's Only Rock'n'Roll, Honky Tonk Woman, I Feel Fine, Hard Day's Night, Eight Days a Week, Rock'n'Roll All Nite, Midnight Special, Gotta Get Outa This Place.

As you can see, nothing too new. But is good as there was a growing solidity to what we did today, more of an edge. I know for myself that it is always valuable to go over and over stuff until it becomes 'internalised' and gels. Everything flows better, the music has a spark. Is good.

Sunday rehersal at Steve's

I've just got home after a four hour rehersal with the band. It was a good session. We worked through a bit of new material and brushed up the worst of what we did at Club 168 (for a gig report, click here). Sharon stayed for part of the afternoon, she was also of the opinion that this sounded much more like us (and much more likable generally).

This is important as there was a bit of a mixed response within the band to our most recent public performance. Readers of this blog will know what I thought. Steve and Nancy were pretty horrified full stop. Barry and Chris were a bit more acceptant, but were obviously relieved to be back on song today.

It was good to have a show that was fairly crap. We were bound to have one after returning from such a long break. Probably better it happened when and where it did rather than at one of our more regular venues (if we have any of those left).

We next play on Saturday at the Finsbury. Apparently it's a private show in a separate room from the main bar. I guess that if any fans turn up they might try and talk their way in, but I can't guarantee it...

I'll let you know how it went, and when our next is.

PS - you'll note I've slightly reorganised the links on the right of this page. Have included part of my growing collection of tab/chord sites, as well as a bit of a consolidated view of different aspects of the band. I'll update these items as time passes.

Hamley Bridge, The Excelsior, and Rehersals.

Nancy and Steve are playing their duo thingy reasonably often at the moment. This Saturday night at the Hamley Bridge Hotel from around 7.30 should be a fun expedition from Adelaide (Hamley Bridge lies a ways out the other side of Gawler). They've played at Burra a couple of times since christmas. Next Friday they play at the Excelsior Hotel, Corner Coglin and Hawker Streets, Brompton, from about 7.30.

They say it's just to keep them in touch while the band kicks into gear again, but I'm sure there's a certain pleasure to the lack of complexity when you only have singer, guitarist and Midi (computer) music - not all the dramas that go with the band. On the other hand, there's a certain wild energy that you can latch onto with the bootstrap mentality that comes with playing in the band.

We've started rehersing again, a bit more methodically than before. So it shouldn't be too long now...

Thanks Jo.