Thursday 10 December 2009

Long and Wynding etc!

All change again, Sandi had to quit as she's overextended with work and family, we were disappointed but understood and she's going to come to our gigs.

The recording project moves on slowly, we've pretty much finished Butterfly Pillow and made inroads into Holding Back.

Continuing to make connections with new musicians.

We played at Mary's last night as she gave up the running of the Portland, this was sad and the jam sessions have disintegrated, but are either happening elsewhere or starting in a different form down in Portland Road again.

I moved in with Al so we have wall to wall oppportunities to make music in between gourmet cooking and DIY.

I've also been asked to try out with Scott's band, Thunderfrog. Scott is Fiddley's husband so that's convenient.

But Wynd is still my priority and we are now hoping to do our first full blown gig in Brighton in early February which means using all the backing trax and staging, but we're also hoping for a few support acts.

I'm sort of getting used to the idea that we three are always going to be the core of the band and that backing trax are the answer, I guess a rhythm section might not appear until we are ready, in the Buddhist sense so I have relaxed.

Written four or five more songs or bits of songs recently.

This week Fiddley and I are off to Surrey to collect her new electric five-string violin, which will mean she won't have to pick up a viola.

I've also started playing twelve-string guitar, Al has promised I can play his Rickenbacker if I'm a good girl, but I don't wanna be a good girl all the time so I shall just capture it anyway, after all he's commandeered my Strat and my beautiful Crafter Rose Anniversario acoustic.

I'm learning more lead and power chords too.

We tried out the accordionist - or did she try us? on a fairly chaotic afternoon a few weeks ago but that doesn't look like it's happening so Al dusted off his keyboard and midi'd up an accordion for the backing track and the recording of Butterfly Pillow.

We had a long discussion about whether to just combine with the guys but so far we've held off.

Kids parties, one or two drunken nights and lots of girly emails are continuing to bond us up and now all of us are seeing serious possibilities.

Fiddley and I are hoping to do some Xmas busking meanwhile and we'll continue to show up at the jams doing our stuff, and any stuff we fancy.