Update on Wynd

It's now two months and we've had quite a few rehearsals, for me, the writer, the music has firmed up and developed, although still a little way to go.

Wynd women are awesome, there has been a bit of angsting about eventual performance, but I have started to really scare them as I now have plans for getting us out there and actually playing.

We did manage a couple of songs at Lurex's party two Saturdays ago, so that might have proved an informal 'first outing', it remains to be seen how we'll do when we're a bit more sober!

It's been an interesting personal journey for all of us. Belinda, as my main Other Musician, has not had many problems coming up with stuff to play, some of it is much better than I could have hoped for, she's now playing three instruments.

The backing vocals are getting stronger every week, my partner, Baz, alias Kevin Kirk, has been invited to coach the girls since while I'm playing and singing myself so that they can practice it's been difficult to focus on what they are doing.

We've had one demo of three songs courtesy Nick Conroy which I'm sure will prove useful.

Next major step for us is to start laying down backing trax, as we have been unsuccessful in finding a suitable percussionist or bassist, although Karma Mama and Wicca can bash a djembe if necessary.

Karma Mama has been to two rehearsals, her beautiful Native American flute, handcrafted by Antz, her partner, who is an instrument maker, now has a pickup and sounded hauntingly beautiful.

All good, look for us at Newick Tuesday night open mic in perhaps six weeks' time, and in the summer we may doing the Portland open mic on Sunday night, there's a possibility of a proper gig at a Beer Festival in Hampshire in August and a short tour of Holland later in the Autumn.

Meanwhile, plans afoot to promote our own launch gig Somewhere in Central Brighton, also in September.

Lurex will be staging the band: backdrops, props, dry ice, movies, clothes, dancing, you name it!