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What a crap first entry that was to this journal. Sometimes I get started on something and that's all I can think about at the time.
Anyway, let me update you on the current Subsource situation (like I was supposed to do last week). Having between four and six members in the band, it's a little bit more ambiguous than we ought to let on. There are the four core musicians and the two MCs, who are currently out of the country. Exactly how we got together is a long-drawn out story which I can't really be bothered with right now so I'll save it for another time. The exciting news this week is that Stix is probably going to be back in the UK sometime in April, which is good news considering we have shows lined up starting with the Bar Knowledge gig on the 22nd April. Gig dates are rolling in so it should be a pretty good season for us.
The weekly rehearsal was successful - continuous tweaking of the set is ongoing. The Oasis cover band that rehearses next door at the same time is also sounding pretty-well polished, I wonder if they're out gigging a lot... in fact I wonder how many Oasis cover bands have ever formed. Somehow I doubt there's going to be any Subsource cover bands in ten years time.
You just have to do a quick browse through HMV across the A-Z artists to realise there's so many bands and musicians out there asking for a piece of your time that you never WILL have time to listen to it all. For every artist on a label, there must be a thousand more, all stuck in a world that's completely anonymous to me and you. If everyone in the world stopped making recorded music today, we'd easily spend a century digging up and uncovering 'new' material that people had already made. I could easily convince myself that making yet more music to be thrown into the anonymous music disposal chute is a waste of time for everyone. Nobody's going to reclaim anything from there.
Anyway, let me update you on the current Subsource situation (like I was supposed to do last week). Having between four and six members in the band, it's a little bit more ambiguous than we ought to let on. There are the four core musicians and the two MCs, who are currently out of the country. Exactly how we got together is a long-drawn out story which I can't really be bothered with right now so I'll save it for another time. The exciting news this week is that Stix is probably going to be back in the UK sometime in April, which is good news considering we have shows lined up starting with the Bar Knowledge gig on the 22nd April. Gig dates are rolling in so it should be a pretty good season for us.
The weekly rehearsal was successful - continuous tweaking of the set is ongoing. The Oasis cover band that rehearses next door at the same time is also sounding pretty-well polished, I wonder if they're out gigging a lot... in fact I wonder how many Oasis cover bands have ever formed. Somehow I doubt there's going to be any Subsource cover bands in ten years time.
You just have to do a quick browse through HMV across the A-Z artists to realise there's so many bands and musicians out there asking for a piece of your time that you never WILL have time to listen to it all. For every artist on a label, there must be a thousand more, all stuck in a world that's completely anonymous to me and you. If everyone in the world stopped making recorded music today, we'd easily spend a century digging up and uncovering 'new' material that people had already made. I could easily convince myself that making yet more music to be thrown into the anonymous music disposal chute is a waste of time for everyone. Nobody's going to reclaim anything from there.
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