Negotiators Duo - Hamley Bridge Jan 27

Steve and Nancy at the Hamley Bridge Hotel on Saturday night. Many thanks to all those who came up to support them. Looked to me like everyone had a great time!

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Reflective moment...

Steve and Nancy play the Excelsior Hotel (Corner Coglin and Hawker Streets, Brompton) this Friday (2/2/07) from about 7.30 pm. They play with a fair bit more guts than any other of the duo acts I've seen over recent years.

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.

Happy New Year - 2007!

Have a good one!

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December briefing

We had another practice session today, albeit without Nancy as she wasn't too well. We've been having 40'C plus for the last couple days, so at 33'C and humid was a day to get your health back.

Anyway, it was good fun. Jammed away for a few new songs, Zeppelin, Floyd, Beatles and John Foggerty covers = did pretty good. Should fit a few in the repertoire by next time we play. The foggerty song was resonant with some Ramones I've been listening to recently, an interesting correlation and proof to my mind of the musical significance of the Ramones - pop and punk and rocknroll all in one.

Anyway - we are yet to confirm a pre christmas gig, possibly at Rosewater FC. Will do all we can to let you know if we confirm it. And there's a hint of a mid-north 'ashes' tour sometime next year. We'll let you know about that also.

Meanwhile, back at the ranch ...

Getting (it) back together

At rehersal on Sunday we all played together again as a band for the first time in three months. Really, more of a structured jam than a rehersal, it was nice to actually be doing it again. Even at our worst, we weren't that bad. There's a lot of derusting required, but that won't take longer than another session (or, at the most, two). And what we pulled off was more than sufficient for entertainment value.

Which is the baseline in this game.

Back on the Road (some of us are...)

Nancy and Steve played their duo number last Friday night at Rosewater FC, where The Negotiators played a cool gig earlier in the year. It was a fundraiser for one of the locals (who was there when the band played) who had a nasty accident. The raised a fair bit of cash and Nancy's vocal chords held up. And it sounds like all enjoyed the evening for what it was.

The Negotiators have a full band rehersal this Sunday, the first time in how many months? I think we have a gig booked at Rosewater FC somtime before xmas. When I know more, I'll post it up here.

After a full on break from the music game, it sure will be a bit of a change of gear to get ready for summer!