Ignition sequence complete

[glenatron]

So last night we played our big show and it was absolutely awesome. It felt good to play, we sounded good and the audience (not far off capacity- I think we had around 170 people in) were loving it. It was also fantastic to have so many friends from so many different places in- my friends from work, local friends from my college days and our distinguished houseguests- we had the pleasure of Ali, Lex and Tom down from Wales, Mark and Janet having made the drive from Leeds and Ben Pacey, who I hadn't seen for far too long and I believe leads a nomadic lifestyle that centres in London but passes through Crewe this evening. We also had a lot of the people who have helped and supported the band over the years - it was really good to have Charlie, our old keyboard player, along- he remains one of the nicest people I have ever met.

The new band website has now gone live over at www.sequoiauk.co.uk there's a lot more to it and it's more designed than the old site- it's looking very good so far.

Tomorrow the album will be released so hopefully any of you who have pre-ordered will be receiving your copy forthwith. At the time of writing our Amazon sales rank was 7529, which seems quite high, for a relatively little-known band, so that's promising at the least.

Yesterday, just before we went on stage I saw a copy of a review which is apparently going to be appearing in What Hi-fi magazine, it concluded like this:

"No point in a track-by-track breakdown because all the songs shine with a zestful brilliance. Sequoia have the credentials to fill the aching pop space left by Crowded House- they really are that good."

That is pretty much exactly the way I see the album and I am very glad to find at least one reviewer has looked at it the same way...

Comments

[life-of-tom.livejournal.com]

it was all pretty sweet. world domination does indeed beckon for you..

[shanks01.livejournal.com]

Keep up the rocking work Mr Moxon! Sucks I couldn't be there... I'll make it up to you somehow... are there any women in the band that need sleeping with or something?:)

Im gonna get to one of your next gigs if it KILLS me! It's been too long!

But excellent work, and as they say in that terribly song, the only way is up:)

[spoondog.livejournal.com]

Yay Ben! Sorry I wasn't there...but at least I saw them before they were famous.

[stu-the-elder.livejournal.com]

I was trapped in my house over the weekend with many relatives. The older ones were alright but the younger ones expected me to entertain them and were to put not too fine a point on it, chavs. I'll get you for this Moxon. Just you wait 'till you play Leicester..

- Crump

[doveston.livejournal.com]

glad to hear it went well dude

[glenatron.livejournal.com]

We're in Leicester on the 29th, playing at The Musician...

[glenatron.livejournal.com]

I stand corrected- it was Hi-fi Plus magazine, apparently, and our Amazon rating hit 2050 today and appears to have stayed there. Apparently the rating is based on the total sales across everything, so that is a fairly respectable number...