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I don't know if many of you remember my years with Sequoia - it was a long time ago and it left me feeling pretty burnt out with music, bands and the music industry. I kept a very low workrate playing with my old friend ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
shanks01 as much because I enjoy hanging out with Stu as out of any great inclination to conquer the world with music. We tried working with other musicians with mixed outcomes and sometimes playing open mic nights, but essentially although we had some really good songs we were pretty unambitious about them.
Over the last eight months or so that has started to change. Another friend of Stu's plays piano and we finally got around to rehearsing with her. Turns out she is excellent, fitted in great and brought a whole lot more to the music. As the sound got bigger we realised we should find ourselves some other musicians to work with. After a few auditions and a few false starts we found ourselves a truly stunning drummer who is also the tallest member of the band and a super-nice guy. A little while later a shiny-headed bassist emerged out of the fog with the skills to fit right into the band's sound.
So now we are a five piece and after a week of increasing excitement ( helped by the fact that a friend of ours released his band's album last week and it is genuinely excellent ) last Sunday we played our first live gig. We were probably a little under-rehearsed, but there is no question in my mind that it was one of the best performances I have ever been part of. Stu is a great singer and front man, everyone else hit their notes like we were supposed to and the audience response was really cheering. Even the song where I play mandolin and almost always get my fingers tied in knots went pretty smoothly. We were totally buzzing afterwards and doubtless completely intolerable, but what a fun evening! The other two bands on the bill ( The Automated and Take Me Home ) were both genuinely good too, which is an unusual thing for a local gig and all in all it was a pretty good value evening for everyone involved. Hopefully even for people likeherecirm and ramalam who had travelled long distances to be there.
We're lining up more gigs now and working out when we can get proper recordings done, but in the meantime you can find most of the tracks from the weekend over on Soundcloud or just listen right here:
Alsoherecirm took a whole bunch of excellent pictures during the show, not sure if I can link them direct on account of it being Facebook, let's find out...
The Patient Wild, ladies and gentlemen. Why yes, I am wearing a suede waistcoat like it's 1994. I'm vintage.
shanks01 as much because I enjoy hanging out with Stu as out of any great inclination to conquer the world with music. We tried working with other musicians with mixed outcomes and sometimes playing open mic nights, but essentially although we had some really good songs we were pretty unambitious about them.Over the last eight months or so that has started to change. Another friend of Stu's plays piano and we finally got around to rehearsing with her. Turns out she is excellent, fitted in great and brought a whole lot more to the music. As the sound got bigger we realised we should find ourselves some other musicians to work with. After a few auditions and a few false starts we found ourselves a truly stunning drummer who is also the tallest member of the band and a super-nice guy. A little while later a shiny-headed bassist emerged out of the fog with the skills to fit right into the band's sound.
So now we are a five piece and after a week of increasing excitement ( helped by the fact that a friend of ours released his band's album last week and it is genuinely excellent ) last Sunday we played our first live gig. We were probably a little under-rehearsed, but there is no question in my mind that it was one of the best performances I have ever been part of. Stu is a great singer and front man, everyone else hit their notes like we were supposed to and the audience response was really cheering. Even the song where I play mandolin and almost always get my fingers tied in knots went pretty smoothly. We were totally buzzing afterwards and doubtless completely intolerable, but what a fun evening! The other two bands on the bill ( The Automated and Take Me Home ) were both genuinely good too, which is an unusual thing for a local gig and all in all it was a pretty good value evening for everyone involved. Hopefully even for people like
herecirm and ramalam who had travelled long distances to be there.We're lining up more gigs now and working out when we can get proper recordings done, but in the meantime you can find most of the tracks from the weekend over on Soundcloud or just listen right here:
Also
herecirm took a whole bunch of excellent pictures during the show, not sure if I can link them direct on account of it being Facebook, let's find out...The Patient Wild, ladies and gentlemen. Why yes, I am wearing a suede waistcoat like it's 1994. I'm vintage.