Hi! I know I said I'd update this a little more often than I have done, but considering no one is reading this blog yet I don't really care. Because you don't really care. I mean, if you cared then I would care, naturally. But you don't, so I don't.
But I digress.
The past few days I've been back home in order to practice with my band, the Newsagents (Hit the jump to hear our song 'Irish Hearts Are Breaking'), for our upcoming gig at the Lark In The Park in Islington.
It's been a tiring three days, my fingers are raw and numb and a strange shade of red with a blister on one of them. It's a sexy sight, and I know there are people out there that would pay to see this shit! (send me and e-mail, we can work something out) Apart from that things have been going at an...okay pace, frankly. The first day I left with a definite feeling that we can do this, no problem. We clicked back into place and were having a lot of fun.
The second say not so much, there were a lot of timing issues (in the sense that the speed of the songs kept fluctuating, for whatever reason...) that left us all feeling frustrated. As a bassist, and singer, I can tell you having the speed constantly changing isn't your friend. In fact it's pretty much on the opposite end of the spectrum, it's really annoying. And...and...frustrating! Did I already use that? Oh well. Let's just say I'm reiterating to hammer it home.
Let me just say, I'm not the best musician in the world. Anyone will happily tell you that, especially me. I'm a root note cruncher and fucking proud of it. Nothing is more fun to me than hammering the roots and running around having a good time while doing it. That being said, I do have a pretty good sense of time and rhythm (I nailed the bass track in 'Irish Hearts...' in three takes. THREE, people! The vox took a little longer but eh.) and so yeah, it's hard to keep things going in time when everything else isn't. Y'know. But whatever, that's why we're practicing.
And now, here we are, on the third day!
This was a pretty rad day actually, it felt like same old same old at the start. It didn't help my fingers were hurting like a motherfucker, and red raw to boot! That being said, Joe had a HUGE blister on his thumb by the end of the first day. So I guess I can't really complain, especially considering how hilarious me and Chazz found his blister...and the pain he was going through. Brings a smile to my face just thinking about it. Yes, I am a member of a sadist website. I'm not really, but I have looked into it. Joking, by the way, before anyone freaks out...
We started learning a new cover to bulk up our set list to try and make it to a half hour, which is our alloted time. As mentioned in a previous post we've got a 7 song set, and I think that with talking we'll actually cover a half hour no problem. I was stoked to start on this new song, which I'm not going to mention here as I want it to be a surprise when we play it. It's an awesome and fun song though, definitely dance worthy.
So, that's about it really. I heard about the role of script editor the other day, don't know if I'll get it or not. Funnily enough the role information that was provided through our 'esteemed' course leader about script editing (doctoring) doesn't exactly correspond with what a script doctor actually does. But, hey, whatever. We'll see whether I get that or not by the end of the weekend and I've got a meeting Monday with the rest of my group. Fun times, huh.
Anyway, the more observant among you may have noticed a title change to 'The Slacker Chronicles'. I thought this was more apt, considering that not everything I do is film based. Despite the amount of time I may spend talking about, watching, or wanting to film movies and junk. I just felt, considering that the majority of this post was about my band, that I should give the blog a more all encompassing name. Besides, it's not like anyones read any of these. Especially considering I haven't given the site out yet...
Steve.
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