BOTB

Well, battle of the bands is coming up again, and it should be pretty damn fun.

I'm opening up the night with Babagau and Friends - our prog jam group, which is going to be interesting. We've never prepared any material or played to any sort of pattern - whenever we get together we just jam for 2 hours straight with no talking or other communication at all.

As it's a live performance though, we're going to have to cut down to half an hour, and in order to qualify as participants we need two 'songs', so we're just going to stop halfway through and then start again, creating two separate pieces. I think I'll read The Raven by Poe during the first quarter hour, and then just solo on keyboard/harmonica/vocals for the other quarter hour. Oh, and I'll also be mostly naked and covered in body paint - probably blindfolded too. Should be fun.

The other band I'll be competing with is of course, my lovely Tie-Dye Quartet (which oddly enough, has actually been a Quartet recently) - and we'll be dressed up smart and playing something a bit more 'normal'. Julie's written a lovely vocal song, we've got a haunting jam Tim made up when we played at Boots and there's a very bass-led (obviously) jam of mine we'll be performing too, along with two standards (Ain't No Sunshine and Just The Two Of Us). We had a get together today and went over the three originals (learning Julie's and my own from scratch, in about half an hour, not bad eh?)

So, if you're about on Thursday, I'll be onstage at 8pm and 10.30pm, and the rest of the night should be great too :)