Hard Rock Unafraid to Challenge Convention
New Music, content, and shows!
We released a new track with the New Year called Bring Me Down. We have more music ready to release as final mix and production completes. This is set to culminate in a new album release by the end of 2024.
The video is James’ first attempt at a Lyric Video to promote the latest release and kick off this year’s line-up of kick ass work by everyone in the band.
Stay tuned as we pull everything together for shows and guerilla live broadcasts.
We got some writing and organizing done at the practice pad. We have several new songs on the bubble, and almost half a set worth of material that has not been performed live. We’re excited to be shopping for shows to bring them to you and light up the stage.
The cords are still all over the place, but that is what happens when creating. Sometimes chaos ensues. And that’s ok.
We had some visitors pop in and hang out with us. Nikki and Paul wanted to check us out before Paul went back home to Ireland. We do not have plans for a European tour this year, but if we did, we know we could rely on Paul to make some noise in Ireland for us!
Back to making noise… and kicking James’ ass into writing more updates so we do not appear to have gone into hiding.
And the instruments play HAHAHAHAHA
We ran through a bunch of ideas and roughed out several to show Chrsi what happens when we are neglected.
Short update post-practice, but that is what happened. We were left unsupervised and we went on a sonic exploration.
Not every practice has to be productive. Sometimes you have a shit week and want to blow off some steam. Or hit some steam. Or a vape. Whatever. At least the decor is on point
So This week’s practice was the fucking around variety. We made the usual noises, had some fun with it and played some bad covers as well. Recorded a potential new song snip that we will revisit.
All in all, we had fun. Made fun of each other and maybe had a shot or two.
If you are not having fun with your band, why the fuck even show up? There are no bad practices. If everyone shows up, has fun, and resets for the week, it was good. We all do our homework and technique shit outside the practice pad. Once in that room with the amps on fucking fire, and the drums slamming, that is what it is about. If the chemistry is bad it will show up on stage. The ability to take a shit night and turn it into a fun night… is as important as nailing parts. That shows up on stage too.
On a side note – Bacon-flavored vodka? REALLY?!?!?!?! FFS – Why is that even in the practice pad?
If you visit us – you have to take a shot for your first visit. HAHAHAHA
Tonight was what it is about.
It is not every day your band grows as a crew. Something about tonight had that vibe. Yeah, we had some fuck ups and had to revisit a few parts, but that is to be expected. But tonight, we jammed. We flowed. Almost every song we played hit a pocket moment with us all.
I will be recording basslines for a single we are releasing soon. Being honest, re-recording. I am not happy with what I produced on my own, and Chris will handle the DAW for me while I put in a better performance. This is just the way it has to be sometimes. We are a band, not 4 stray musicians who happened to rent a rehearsal space together. I play our music better when I have one of my band bros with me.
Every one of us has improved some aspect of our role. We are approaching this new year with that in mind. Passion is improvement. Honing our craft is improvement. Defying entropy to expand our scope and vision… that is the movement we maintain.
We gotta get an updated selfie next practice.
Stay tuned! Live stream coming at you soon.
Closing out 2022, we played fewer live shows while increasing our original catalog. We have become a bit more focused on writing and direction and this will lead to great-quality live production as we emerge into 2023. We made new friends. We faced some personal challenges among our members and came out stronger on the other side.
There are no resolutions coming into the new year. Just a continued determination to enjoy music, creation, performing, and expanding horizons further. Longer sets. Better visual entertainment. Tighter performances. These are all continuing goals.
Long story short (too late!) – We want to entertain the fuck out of you! Sound good doing it, and look good delivering it.
Indogen’s bass bastard here.
These are eventful times for us. We have new music the quarantine is allowing us to really work on. We have at least one cover tune and video in the works. We are taking all precautions but we are getting our jam on.
Melody and presentation have been highlights of discussion this week. Bringing elements and counterparts into play to build movements. We are progressive rock, so we are taking some songs to borderline ludicrous levels of fun. It would not be us otherwise.
Whiskey of the week has also been an interesting addition, let me know if you are interested in what we are sipping while we work.
Our practices have been upgraded and augmented by a computer and interface. Allowing for real-time review of the noises we make. We will be using it to put out some live videos to edit together with scripted shenanigans. We need to provide the drama and like everyone, we are adapting to the current limitations 2020 has provided us with.
So we are fighting back. Keeping our spirits and minds on creating and our efforts on improving. Basically everything but dance routines.
I will be writing more random updates and encouraging the other members to do so as 2020 moves along.
