Saturday 17 February 2007

From The First Person

Well it is almost a month since my last post and a lot has been happening. But first I'd like to talk about January. This was the month of chicken. I have never eaten so much chicken in one month in all my life. Chicken sandwiches, coronation chicken, chicken burgers, chicken curry, and chicken. There was a van outside of my job at the Halifax which sold chicken burgers - although my workmate said that there was probably no actual chicken in them, I still classify it as chicken.

Unfortunately, I was 'laid off' from the Halifax. A week passed with no work, and then Kelly Services, the ridiculous recruitment agency, came to the rescue and supplied me with a new job working for the NHS. My 'job' is to flick through dirty prescriptions and remove the staples. It is the most stupid 'job' I've ever had (and that's saying something) and it takes me away from the things that I love. It generates money though, which I need to for the things that I love.

The new band with Davey is going well. Currently we are going under the moniker of 'Davey and the Dubsons'. Although I thought I might be doing something different, I have predictably ended up on the guitar. Matty has predictably ended up playing drums. The surprise element though is that drumming extraordinaire Davey Dobson is playing not one, but TWO keyboards - and it sound wicked. We currently have three songs completed - I could try to describe what they sound like, and they are reminiscent of music that obviously exists, but I like to think what it really sounds like is the coming together of three very distinct minds. We are always writing new material and growing in confidence as a band - we believe what we are doing is good. We are assembling recordings and other media and are currently trying to decide on the best way of presenting this to the public, and we also have plans to play live within the next few months. It is working out as well as I could have hoped.

This year has so far has also produced a number of bootlegs, comprising of videos and audio recordings, and including bands such as Little Green Machine, Jacob Flynch, Rodent Emporium, Covert Camel, Some Young Pedro and an acoustic performance by Martin Little of the fabulous Indafusion. I would recommend all of these bands to anyone, and they can be found in the friends list on the Spacial Entrepreneurs Myspace page.

Since the end of Spacial Entrepreneurs, Matthew and I have been undecided on what to do next - we play in a lot of different styles and are always experimenting with new ideas, which is good for variety, but bad for trying to focus on a musical direction for a new band. We are trying to avoid the same approach we took with The Spacials, which was just kind of all over the place - the sound of this new band should be more defined, but it's definitely harder to do that with our personalities. We have demoed a lot of material since December of last year, so hopefully at some point a bunch of songs will appear to fit together in some sort of cohesive way...in the meantime we must fumble in the darkness I suppose...