Well, the final drummer auditionee (?) was... very, very good. He seemed like he liked us and our stuff too

We are having a full jam with him (and the whole band, rather than just me and Al) on Monday so he can hear the full sound before making a decision on whether to join. Here's hoping!

Matt

Well... where to begin.

Ed decided to pass on the drum front (he felt he was still too rusty; sad, but likely true) so we have been auditioning drummers. They were:
1) Guy who didn't show up.
2) Adam - this guy was amazing. Too amazing in fact. He wasn't interested in a project which wasn't all ready to go imediately :(
3) Ritchie - a friend of mine who plays in his own band Battle of a Dinosaur. We played together a long time ago and he wasn't really up to scratch for the material then, and sadly he isn't quite up for it now either.

This means we have one more drummer to audition, and should he tick the boxes I'll be fucking dancing... because otherwise, we'll have to utilise PLAN B...

Plan B.

I play the drums.
This means Doug plays my parts and Al plays dougs parts while he plays his basslines on the Warr.

Sigh.

I really like my guitar parts too.



Matt

So, although we've failed to play together for a few weeks, we're going to have a wee jam tonight. And we're inviting two very special guests round to have a listen to our first (nearly) finished tune (which is still called Interlock). What will Ali K (myspace.com/alastairkilgour) and (my, not Ali's) long term suffering girlfriend, Louisa, make of it? Will we manage to finish writing the tune before they turn up? Will we manage to play it through without having to restart every few bars? Will we resort to shouting numbers at Doug? ("4", "7" "no 4 4 4" "NOW") (Sorry Doug, I only tease you as you're probably the most musical out of the three of us and I'm jealous. Matt and I just make up for lack of Dougness by throwing numbers and silly ideas at each other).

Anyway. It should be a good test to see how we're doing. If it goes well, it'll only be a matter of time (probably a lot of time) before we play at an open mic. Oh that'll be fun. Whoever is doing the sound is going to hate us!

Being a stylish lot, last night Cantor embarked on a photo shoot. Forget the fact that we haven't written any complete tracks yet, looks matter people.

And anyway, it was snowing. And it seemed like a good excuse to go outside and be daft.

Practise is scheduled for tonight though: will be interesting to see what we all remember :)

Al

Tonight we will be tackling Crimson.

If you really want, you can read more about it: http://riadsala.co.uk/2009/01/22/cantor-taking-the-obvious-step/

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You may have noticed there is now (incredibly rough) music to lisen to.

THIS IS A TASTER ONLY!!! Just so all of you dirty myspace vagabonds have some kind of idea of what we're about. Don't worry (yeah, right) - we'll get proper stuff up soon enough *grins*

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Matt

A great first meeting. At this rate, we might actually play a gig this year! So, here's the plan: Work on the 6 tunes below. Then pick the best 4 and play then at a wee secret gig. Probably at Whistlebinkies New Band night. Then see what happens. Oh, and at some point we should meet Matt's friend Sarah who's apparently wanting to play sax and sing. Which will be interesting.

Oh yeah, and we'll hopefully record some clips to splice together for a teaser trailer. Hopefully soon. Maybe even on Sunday. Although Louisa's guitar lesson takes priority.

So, here is a list of the current tunes:

clip3. Or more accuratly clip345. Poor Doug. First he can't count to 4. Now he can't count to 3. Although he can now. See, practise is a wonderful thing. Anyway, we have a nice simple Ebm, Bbm, B, Db progression to do lots of things to. Like all joining Doug with his 3s. I like that idea.

stupidchordprog. Which sounds surprisingly sensible and good. Matt's wrote a B section to it which i look forward to hearing.

interlock. I have to remind myself how the B section goes. And then we all have to sort out a structure. But this is going well. Which is good.

f-mi*. This has rapidly turned from just a bassline in Bb to a really cool part of a song. Am looking forward to modifying my part to fit the guitars.

Europa. Needs a better working title, but I thought this would do for the time being, as it kind sounded a weeee bit like the Europa String Choir. Anyway, I'm going to be on low low bass duties while also playing a high high lead. Should be good practise.

w-arps. Matt's going to try some percussive guitar in a simple 3/4 beat, and also have a think about a nice tappy acoustic guitar break/B section.

See, it's all going well! I'll upload some scans of our notes soon.

Al

At practice today the following was said:

"So... I'll be skipping bars in a diagonal fashion?" - Doug
"Its the smuggness of you that pisses me off!" - Doug (to Matt)

Douglas you rascal, you do make me smirk.

Matt