Today was quietly momentous. For the second time in ten year, two memebers of The Buckfever Underground met with the express purpose of preparing marterial for the the band. The only other time that I can remember it happening was when me and Toast got together before our first ever perfromance in Grahamatown. The 'practice session' lasted about three minute and went something like this:

Me: I've got a couple idea, they sound something like this (I then proceed to stum a couple vague chord changes)

Toast: Sounds good to me

practice over

Ten years later, Rigard comes over to my flat so we can go through some ideas. The meain reason for this is that there is a general feeling between me, Righard and Stephen that we a pushed the unsructured approach as far as we can go and it is becoming less enjoyable. We are lsitening to each other less and less ad while there is definitely something unique in what we are doing, Lloyd Gedye's comment that wathcing Buckfever live is like 'watching a group of musucians at war with each other' was slowly starting to become a reality with the three of us getting increasingly frustrated and our inabiliy to stay on the same page as each other during perfromances. In particular, Stephen has been finding it very diffcult to figure out wher myself and rigahrd are heading during gigs - probably because niether of us are completely aware of where we are going until we get there.

For the most part we went over one idea that came out of the soundcheck in Durbanville. When me initially palyed it it really reminded me of Asmosphere by Joy Division. It still has that feeling but we have also managed to flesh it out so it climbs and falls. it will be interesting to see what happens when we asdd Stephen to the mix tomorrow when we jam. The jam tomorrow will also be interesting because Jon will be joining us for the first time in more that a year. Cassette have just got back from a Europea tour and Jon and Jane are in town to chill for a week and so we asked Jon to join us at the launch at The Armchair on Tuesday. It will be really good to have him back after so long. And the timing s really fitting because even though the music has moved in quite a different direction since he left, the keys and piano are such a big part of the album that it would eb a shame for him not to be involved in the its launch.
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but thats all for now. hopefully the next couple days go really well. Outside of the launch therea re a couple other things on the cards for us, but i'll get onto that later.

gil