Ars Nova – what a band…. Siemy Di band – what a band… even if Siemy Di does take 25 minutes fiddling with the height of a tom… hmmm.
Had a PA training session before the gig, set the PA up – run it LOUD, sounding very nice now. Bint came along, as did Sweaty, Matt, some new lad, and Mouse.
The drum kit arrived VERY late (almost a quarter to six) and by the time everything was set up, mic’d and soundchecked it was twenty past seven – something I don’t like. We put 7pm on the tickets… Whinge Over.
Bint came to the gig and brought Gnome along with her. Nice to see Gnome… they sat playing with Blueboard for ages and it really was quite sad… and I thought that!
Sunday – oops – did every clock in the house and forgot the alarm clock… woke up at 8:20 to take the van back by 8:30. Not good. Then had to get to rehearsal by 10.
Rehearsal was very good – a new song just happened and it’s another epic like Losing Myself. Could be the last track on the new CD.
Other song is now called Stay and is almost totally lyric’d up… apart from daft lad forgot to bring them so had to mmmm mmmm mmmm to the bits he forgot. D’oh.
Went to mums for dinner and then took Frodo for his first walk – didn’t like the lead, but that’s puppies for you… he’s getting the nick-name Baggins because he’s a grumpy little bugger at times and has an attitude!
Sunday Night was spent dropping some stuff off the Fostex ready to clear space on it… of course I could just buy a new hard drive but why should I!