Thursday, May 13, 2004
The Decision
I'm going to see Therapy? and The Wildhearts. If two of your all time favourite bands are playing half an hour away it'd be silly not to go! Who knows when or if they'll ever be touring again. I'm very excited! My friend (and LSB associate) Dai is coming down from Bristol for the night. Tomorrow expect a tale of drunken carnage, possibly involving being trapped in Oxford with no way to get home!
Had an amazing time at the Nocturne acoustic gig in The Square in Wokingham last night. Got talking to local scenesters Paul (ex-Chocolate Hostage), Dez (ex-Zeigler) and Anthea (official Rebus groupie) and we had an amazing spontaneous outpouring of creativity. Which sadly meant we didn't pay a huge amount of attention to the first couple of bands.
Back when Sonic Undermind started up we used to have sessions like that all the time, somewhere along the line they kind of dried up. Basically because Nik was in London and Pete was in Winchester so the times when we were all together are much rarer. It's hard to engineer something like that because the spontenaity is part of what's so important. The creative energy is still all there within the band, I'm very lucky to be in a band with some extremely creative people, we just don't get together as a group enough to talk random bullshit. The only times we are all together is when we get meet for rehearsals and gigs. Sam is always saying "we should go out for a drink as a band" and he's right. At the moment it's all work (fun work which I love!) and no play when we are together. Ok, so we have come up with a crazy concept EP idea and two new songs even during this dry period so maybe I'm talking out of my arse. (a tough trick!)
Anyway, rock should be about having the most fun you can, if it isn't you are doing it wrong.
This post written whilst listening to Hardy Hardcore and Mixmeister Blaumfeld, Senser and Yankee Nine-niner.
Had an amazing time at the Nocturne acoustic gig in The Square in Wokingham last night. Got talking to local scenesters Paul (ex-Chocolate Hostage), Dez (ex-Zeigler) and Anthea (official Rebus groupie) and we had an amazing spontaneous outpouring of creativity. Which sadly meant we didn't pay a huge amount of attention to the first couple of bands.
Back when Sonic Undermind started up we used to have sessions like that all the time, somewhere along the line they kind of dried up. Basically because Nik was in London and Pete was in Winchester so the times when we were all together are much rarer. It's hard to engineer something like that because the spontenaity is part of what's so important. The creative energy is still all there within the band, I'm very lucky to be in a band with some extremely creative people, we just don't get together as a group enough to talk random bullshit. The only times we are all together is when we get meet for rehearsals and gigs. Sam is always saying "we should go out for a drink as a band" and he's right. At the moment it's all work (fun work which I love!) and no play when we are together. Ok, so we have come up with a crazy concept EP idea and two new songs even during this dry period so maybe I'm talking out of my arse. (a tough trick!)
Anyway, rock should be about having the most fun you can, if it isn't you are doing it wrong.
This post written whilst listening to Hardy Hardcore and Mixmeister Blaumfeld, Senser and Yankee Nine-niner.
# posted by Mike @ 11:37 
