You can barely walk through it, but we're getting things done. (click to enlarge)

I will be the first to admit it.  I like it when things are neat, organized, logical.  But there is a sense of finality to organization.  You clean up.  You say “There, I’m done”.  And then you go watch TV.  Progress, I have learned, is varying levels of chaos.  The same can be said for Creativity.  Now maybe this is not universally applicable.  I am quite certain that my university lab instructors would disagree.  But I can tell you that our ‘band room’ has been in a state of barely navigable flux for the last month and we have written more songs, come up with more creative and ambitions ideas and learned and programmed more MIDI than we have in ages.  If you are trying to make the song lyrics look pretty instead of just getting them down, you’re missing the point.

August has been, and will continue to be a crazy crazy month.  We are not playing any shows until September, but are busier than ever working on the set, live show, writing and all sorts of thing I don’t want to tell you about.  Just come to a show in September.  I promise it will be worth it.

H.

Just had band practice.  We’re working really hard to give you different live options for all the different venues we play.  We’re currently working on a mid-size live show that has Prevost playing through a drum pad that triggers MIDI drums in our Mac mini we use to play our backing tracks.  This allows us to remove the full drum setup from the live show and Prevost can stand up and join the party.  Hugh is still working from his synth workstation with his bass and Dano has minimized his setup to allow him to run all over the place.  The stage look is changed drastically for this setup. We have Dan on the left side at the front, Prevost and Hugh facing each other in the middle but set further back where Prevost usually is with his drums and me in my usual spot on the right.  We’ve purchased new pieces that include the start of an interesting light show we’ve been dreaming up and sometime in the near future we’ll be adding visuals to the show.  We’re getting bigger and better every show so if you get a chance come and check it out!

Kent