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Tip top transaction!

my wedding/function band has for the last three years got a xmas residency at a large local hotel - gigs every friday and saturday night from start of december thru to new years eve.... maybe worth approaching some similar venues near you? nice and easy too as all the gear can remain in situ for the whole month... turn up ten minutes before going on... plug in... play!

Aaaargh! I've missed out on loads...! Band I was in at school (many moons ago!) kept plugging away with it long after i'd left and went on to have two top ten singles, and a top ten album plus toured the world etc..... Another old band got a 5 kkkkk review of the album in Kerrang magazine and were offered a japanese tour and two of the guys didn't want to take the time off work to do it..... One of my favourite bands of all time (signed to Sony) were looking for a new bassist and through a friend vaguely knowing the drummer I got an audition. They tried out twenty people and I was down to the final two but didn't get the gig because my backing vocals weren't up to scratch... particularly annoying as the old bass player didn't even do backing vocals!! And it would've meant supporting Smashing Pumpkins at Wembley!! Grrrr!!! Another band had a bunch of songs written and through the singer's connections Maiden's Steve Harris and Sanctuary music were gonna record our album and release it. Literally the day before we were due to go down and start recording the plug was pulled on the whole thing by Sanctuary. Guitarist, drummer and singer now part of British Lion, signed to EMI and about to set off on European tour playing a few of those old songs.... Recent band started getting lots of good album reviews, radio play, decent gigs and even a BBC Maida Vale session - then the singer's wife joined on backing vocals.... need i say more!!?! Guitarist from said band also used to tour with a signed band sometimes... one morning I get a text - 'how do you fancy some gigs in New Zealand, urgent ring me ' so i ring and... turns out he'd meant to text the drummer.... who then went and did a bunch of shows in NZ! oh, and don't mention local boys The Darkness!!!!..... For some reason i still stick at it but i do often ask myself why!! I know as well that it wasn't all plain sailing for the above mentioned bands... one ended up getting screwed by the record company who kept delaying the release of their fourth album until they ended up having to sign on or get proper jobs in the interim - by the time it was released tastes had changed and it didn't sell. Another did one more US tour and then split up anyway! peace C

Did a gig recently at Epic Studios in Norwich which was streamed live etc etc - bit out of my comfort zone as i'm primarily a rock player but here it is!... [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRcsiuxbTjw[/media] lots of other tracks on their youtube channel.. peace C

aside from the spitting.... good grief what a boring band to watch!! looks like they're purely going thru the motions to me..

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