Highs and Lows

Things with the band have really started to pick up. We have almost an album's worth of good material which we're in the process of recording and rehearsing. We have momentum building in the rehearsals; we have a sense of self-belief growing; the website is coming together and all around the Internet the whispers on the wind bode well. I'm not saying that we'll be the Next Big Thing, but there is an appetite for what we do and there are more and more people who will want to listen. What seemed like an impossible dream[1] is now perhaps looking achievable.

And then, as if believing in it was the ultimate jinx we're winded by a terrible set back: one of the band has quit. The whole idea of this band was to some extent predicated on being able to get him involved because of what I knew he could bring to the music.

Well we've been at this for about a year and a half now and we have something to show for it. For the first hour or so after getting the news I was in shock and despair. Now I'm disappointed but determined. We will find a replacement and we will continue. We have lost an important member of the band but we have something credible to show now. What was a fantasy a year ago is a very vibrant and real prospect today. We just need someone to walk in, fill the boots and take the vision further.

  "Well, I'm sure I'd feel much worse if I weren't under
 such heavy sedation, but still in all, I mean you've got
 to be realistic about this sort of thing, you know."

Onwards and upwards.

[1] This sort of music is not something that will fit in any sense in the local King's Head and even our first steps need to be at a much more serious level than anything of I've tried before.

Image courtesy of ten minutes' theraputic play with Blender.