ComEnts

So it's the last ever Sonic Undermind gig on Thursday, my attention is being drawn away from that by house stress (still need to find somewhere...) but luckily I have most things sorted so all I need to do on Thursday is turn up at Bar Oz with my amp head and guitar! (oh, and footswitch, and spare guitar... plectrums, money, CDs...). Easily doable. It's quite a shame, I was jamming through our songs the other day and we have written some really interesting stuff over the years. Now things are coming to an end I can look at it slightly more objectively. I even enjoyed playing Carpet Burns on Sunday! That hasn't happened for a long time.

I am still mystified by the amazing popularity of Rock Hat. David Miller mentioned it in glowing terms here but even before then it was Pete and the Pirates' favourite song, and many others. I think Sonic Undermind have three main types of fans. Those who like Rock Hat, those who like Helix and those who wish we were still The Unholy. I was at a wedding on Saturday night and when I was telling people about the band splitting up two seperate people said "No more Rock Hat!". I like it as a song but I don't quite get what people see in it over and above our other songs, it has the best drums by a long way and I like the vocal but a better song than Painless? I guess that the band isn't always the best judge of their best songs. I was talking to Ben Marwood about the same thing the other day. I reviewed his solo EP a while back and the song that I loved most was the one that he dropped from his solo set because it annoyed him. Apparently it's now back in by popular demand.

Interesting question for a band isn't it. When you are in a band it's really annoying to play the same old songs over and over again but as a gig goer you want the band to play all your favourite songs, the hit singles or whatever. When in a band I was like "who cares what they want, we should play what we want". I'm such a hypocrite sometimes.