The holiday period is over and so is the enforced break. I am pleased to say that Ron's operation was a complete success and the boys are rehearsing again. Short rehearsals to start with just building up the stamina for our return gig at Katiefitzgerald's on the 30th October.
The break has allowed us to work on Green Head things that do not involve Live playing and I think this has been beneficial:
Ron and I have been frantically trying to get wider reaching Gigs - more on that later - whilst Timmy and Little Dave and Canadian Dave and Little Dave (still following me? good) have been writing and recording. My piano has been upgraded to firmware release 2 - yes you heard me, release 2 - Wow!!
The recording session we did was a little fraught as it turns out, we really didn't capture what we wanted to capture that day, added to that a few technical recording difficulties unfolded - more on that too later. Still, we persist and work on the recording. In tandem we are trying a recording technique used by many a rock star (!) whilst Ron recuperates. In essence we are in our own studios adding our own parts to a song that starts with a timing click. Little Dave performs his guitar and vocals and emails the tracks to me and Timmy, we add Piano and Bass and forward it on to Canadian who adds guitar, space guitar and backing vocals and then - strangely - we add drums at the end. Only way we could do it timing-wise but lets see how it goes. As far as the acoustic track that it currently is its a killer and the drums are going on this week. Very happy about that.
The object of 2011 is to play bigger and better gigs whilst retaining our feet in the pubs and clubs that continue to support us and live music along the way. We already have a gig on the 28th January 2011 at the River Rooms in Stourbridge (please come, go on please) which is a dedicated gig holding up to 350 people. We can also announce that we now have a gig at the Robin2 Club in Bilston (please come, go on you know you want to) on the 27thy April 2011, yup Easter break. Now, the latter is a 700 seater and we need all the supporters that we can get in order to show the admirable Mike (owner) that people really do want to hear psychedelic rock and soul these days.
So the gig getting is going well, we have 12 or so for 2011 already and with a decent recording of what we do (we have never really hawked our wares to get gigs but usually receive calls asking us to play - which is extremely nice of everyone) but now we are going out for the assault of the festival circuit in 2011. Wish us luck!
Canadian Dave and Friends performed the originally scheduled Green Head Man gig last week at the Black Cross in Bromsgrove and pulled off an excellent tribute to John Lennon's birthday - featuring the great Mike Bannister from Slowburner and Stepping out on guitar (everyone's left handed these days!). Ron got up for two numbers with Timmy and the GHM borg briefly connected for the first time out since July. We really can't wait until the 30th October. (You getting it now? 30th October. I'll slip it in later just in case).
Oh and I went to Cornwall this year for my holidays:
So to recap:
Drummer = Well
Rehearsals = On
Gigs = Oh yeah
Recordings = On Sale soon
Cornwall = Wet
Onwards and, at the very least, sideways = Oh go on then.
Thanks for reading,
Nick x
30th October!!
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