Sunday 8 November 2009

Well, the band is still together after almost a year and we haven't had one fight!

On Halloween, the four witches took to the stage at the Portland Rock Bar and did two numbers, breaking the hex for Lurex which was: can I get up in front of a load of judgmental blokes and survive?

She more than survived, not sure I did as I'm now having to play guitar all the time.

Plus Al is revising my guitar playing which is exhilarating AND frustrating at the same time of course.

I wrote some more songs and started putting new chords to some of the older ones, meanwhile we have full recordings of Visitation, Frida, Little Too Rock and Roll and almost Butterfly Pillow.

Still storyboarding the video but at least we've shot some scenics now.

Next move will be to put on our own gig at a suitable venue in Brighton somewhere.

Fiddley came back from the US well rested and is now talking about getting an electric cello so we're going violin-shopping this week which will be big fun.

Meanwhile Sandi is getting more and more confident with the percussion, she is a real asset to the band as she has great stage presence, and is very brave indeed!

Still not ready to put anything on MySpace or ITunes but I think Wynd deserves slow development, it's not like we're on the X Factor.

My songwriting has changed and evolved so much this year, I realised that I've written 59 songs altogether, most of them in the last 12 months.

Before that, I think I wrote ten my whole life.

I'm hoping the others will begin to come up with ideas, but, let's get the existing show on the road first, because gigging is where it's at for any band so we just have to get out there.

Oh, and the judgmental men? Well, whatever guys. We were the only womens' band there and the only original band so, everything else is chopped liver.....