Let It Snow.
So it’s now Tuesday evening and the last time I posted was last Wednesday according to my blog. Where did the last week go exactly? I’m not sure if it’s a good or bad thing that I have to look back through my diary to remember what I’ve done in the past week? (*See last post for explanation on my memory/posting madness)
I’ve had a relatively quiet week, doing the usual work stuff. Last night we had our first Scrat rehearsal since the gig on Oct 1st and it was really good to be back playing again. Non of us had played together since the gig and apart from the few hours I spent recording drum tracks for our upcoming EP, I hadn’t played drums since Oct 1st so I was a little worries I might be a bit rusty, as that was the longest lay off we’d had in the last year. Surprisingly everything came back together quite well. We all managed to remember what we were playing and there were only a few missed beats, chords and words. We were bass-player-less though, so the real amateur in the band wasn’t there letting the side down ;-)
By the third song I had cramp in my hands and arms…I think I maybe played a bit hard to start with just because I hadn’t had the chance to unleash for a while! It was great fun though and we ran through a new cover we’re thinking of doing and it seemed to gel really quickly, so I think it could be a key song in our next live set. We’ve also been thinking about some other covers to do, and Dicko has been busily writing lyrics for more original numbers, so there’s lots of work to do in the coming months….I can wait!
The only downside to rehearsing after not having done so for so long is that my hands and arms have been aching all day today. My hands are also covered in blisters! But that’s ok - well worth it for the fun I had! And (touch wood) my back seems ok, which is very good.
As you can see from the photo above we had some snow yesterday, this first of the winter….fortunately it was enough to make everything look nice, but not enough to stop us getting to rehearsal. It still amazes me how crap this country is when we get any type of unusual weather! In most countries people just stick their snow chains on their vehicles and go about their normal business even if there’s 3 feet of snow. Here we get 5 inches over 24 hours and the whole bloody country grinds to a halt! People are stranded in freezing cars on moors and motorways! Public transport grinds to a halt and leaves the public stranded in freezing bus stations (unlucky Steph!) and generally everything goes to shit. What a shambles!
To end on a more positive note; The last few days have found me re-visiting some albums and bands that I’ve not listened to for ages…things I own but never listen to and maybe should to more. People such as, Ozzy Osbourne, Billy Talent, Extreme, Faith No more (live), assorted punk covers and also Skunk Anansie - a band I used to love and haven’t listened to for *so* long. Their first two albums are really great - such a great sound and upon reading a song title on the back of their debut album (before even listening to it) I had the weirdest flashback to doing my paper-round when I was 15 and listening to that album on my cassette walkman. When the hell did 1995 become TEN years ago?
Oh, and I ended up going for a drink with Steve on my own on Sunday night in the end - was good to see him though. We set the music world to right.
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hahaha we hunted around in dave’s attic last night looking for his SNES to sell on ebay, we took it downstairs to test and stuck aladdin in and dave said he felt like he’d only played it yesterday, and i’d noticed the year on the front screen [1993] and was like yesterday 12 years ago?! and he was like how the hell was 1993 12 years ago?!?!?!?! it’s true, it’s all crazy and wrong and we’re grown ups and i don’t know how. xx
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Hmmm…just you and Steve maybe it was a good job I couldn’t make it, I’d have ended up being encouraged to drink too much and probably ended up having NO idea waht was going on!!