ComEnts

So, I'm browsing the news on the NME website and I see that Josh 'no relation to Ken' Homme is claiming that the new Queens of the Stone Age album is going to feature the Disney marching band and Jamelia wants to team up with Justin Hawkins from The Darkness.

Anyway this pair of odd couples got me thinking what would happen if totally disparate local bands, for local people, started collaborating together. It seems to be relatively difficult to get working with people from other bands. If you are in an unsigned band you probably have a job as well and that can make juggling gigs and rehearsals tricky. That's just for a single band, I have no idea how AK copes with 3 bands + his top secret new project. This basically means it's tough to find time to jam with a new bunch, and even if you do write a great track what do you do with it? Can't really release it as a single.

Rob (SU drummer) and I had an idea a while back where we'd get a load of local scenesters together for a week in some secluded house somewhere in the middle of nowhere and write and record a load of material, for possible later release/download. Basically it's the same concept as Josh Homme's desert sessions, in a neat return to the origins of this post. We thought we might even be able to gig the results sometime after our return.

I will have to set about sorting that out.