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