Tuesday, April 03, 2007
Acoustic + Blah Blah
Last night at rehearsal we spotted the new issue of Blah Blah (local entertainment listings magazine) as we were leaving. Paul opened it at the center pages to find that our gig is in there in the previews. Pretty good write up of us considering hardly anyone has seen us or knows much about us. It was mentioned that local celeb Binz is our singer. Great to see that he's a local celeb in the press now!
Reading the line-up back in the preview it's pretty awesome. Rebus launching their single and also on the bill are OK Tokyo who have apparently generated a lot of interest. Their recordings sound really great judging by the stuff on their site. If that wasn't enough we're also playing with Kicks who I haven't seen since the Nokia 'win a chance to play at the Reading Festival' thing at the Fez last summer. They were very good then though. Recordings also great. Scary! 3 very professional bands and us... not only is this only our second gig but for two of the members of Joey Ultra it's their second gig with any band. That sounds like the plot of a Fakin' It episode doesn't it? Get Channel 4 on the phone!
On the plus side, last couple of rehearsals have been sounding really good. We've pretty much shelved Indy Disco which we all really like in theory but in practice it's almost impossible to play well.
Also, we're tentatively working on our acoustic set. We are planning to try and do a song or two at Bohemian Night (open mic night at the BBBs) on Thursday. After all, there's no school on Friday and maybe if that goes ok we can play the After Dark acoustic thing.
Club Velocity, 21st April, Plug'n'Play, Milford Road, Reading.
Reading the line-up back in the preview it's pretty awesome. Rebus launching their single and also on the bill are OK Tokyo who have apparently generated a lot of interest. Their recordings sound really great judging by the stuff on their site. If that wasn't enough we're also playing with Kicks who I haven't seen since the Nokia 'win a chance to play at the Reading Festival' thing at the Fez last summer. They were very good then though. Recordings also great. Scary! 3 very professional bands and us... not only is this only our second gig but for two of the members of Joey Ultra it's their second gig with any band. That sounds like the plot of a Fakin' It episode doesn't it? Get Channel 4 on the phone!
On the plus side, last couple of rehearsals have been sounding really good. We've pretty much shelved Indy Disco which we all really like in theory but in practice it's almost impossible to play well.
Also, we're tentatively working on our acoustic set. We are planning to try and do a song or two at Bohemian Night (open mic night at the BBBs) on Thursday. After all, there's no school on Friday and maybe if that goes ok we can play the After Dark acoustic thing.
Club Velocity, 21st April, Plug'n'Play, Milford Road, Reading.
Labels: Joey Ultra
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