FayeAutumn

Thanks everyone My current primary is a Cort B4LH, as mentioned elsewhere. But I'd love a Shuker. Mourning for Autumn started as a typical goth band but due to the early influence of my guitarist and various line-up changes we've morphed into more of a hard-rock/metal band as time's gone by. Though some of the goth/post-punk influences remain.

If Rotosound, Laney or Trace, Shuker or Warwick offered me endorsement deals I'd take them in a heartbeat. For anyone else I'd really want to try what they had to offer before saying 'yay' or 'nay'. If the product was not to my taste - and here I won't say 'crap' because one persons 'crap-tacular' is anothers 'awesome-sauce' - then I'd definitely decline. Also, I think I'd feel weird if I were offered a deal with say, Ibanez. Because, whilst they have some really nice instruments they don't really cater for the lefty market - and as a lefty who plays lefty that would very much put me off.

Hello from the City of Steel. I'm Faye and I'm the low-end provider in Mourning For Autumn.

I'd always wanted to be in a band, but never had the confidence to go out and learn to play let alone get up on stage. And bass wasn't really my first choice, it wasn't even my second choice really falling as it did behind singing and keyboards. By the time I was in my mid-twenties I was thoroughly convinced I'd never do anything musical and had resigned myself to it. That changed when (at the age of 30) and after a conversation about music my then house-mate leant me this no-name guitar he had lying around, so I picked it up and messed around with it for a few days before deciding that it really wasn't for me, but that a bass probably would be. I think I'd probably been subconsciously influenced by more bassists than guitarists anyway that it felt like the right path to take. At that point though, I still had no intention of being in a band as I was still convinced I was too old, but that I could at least learn to play a few songs at home. That changed dramatically even before I'd gotten around to buying my first bass; a friend of mine came bounding up to me after a gig at Christmas 2006 asking me to form a band with her - caught up in the moment I agreed. No, I wasn't drunk (except perhaps on adrenalin). Now of course, bass is my first choice. I still have the occassional urge to learn keyboards or to sing, but I love bass too much to swap. My first bass was a Yamaha BB614L My current bass is a Cort Artisan B4LH And my dream bass is a Shuker