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Jan. 14th, 2008 08:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shermaramaDude, I'm danger of breaking my only New Year's Resolution already. On Saturday night I went to a club night, Road To Ruin. It's the third time I've been to it and every time it's been in a different venue; the previous two had obvious things wrong with them that made moving on a good idea, but actually this one does too. It's the Old King's Head on Holloway Road, which is at least a reasonable-ish place to get to, and it's your fairly typical pub-come-venue apart from that the PA is pants. The sound for the band was fine, but it was much harder than it should have been to tell what the DJs were playing. Anyway, the relevant bit is that the band were Jecano, a band I've been following on and off since being knocked flat by them in the Hobgoblin in Brighton, nearly four years ago now. They've not really gone anywhere in that time, coming up with occasional new songs that aren't as good as the ones on their third demo from 2002, playing the odd few gigs and mostly getting distracted by other things I suspect, but it was still good to see them. Also, I find that their astonishingly good drummer is now in a two-piece called Mississippi Witch, which is a stupid name for an English band and obviously came straight out of the Stoner Name Generator Hat but what the hell, all I care about is watching Mr. Danby being astonishingly good at playing the drums, so I shall go and do that.
Friday night's PJ gig was, as predicted, a bit awful. We didn't make any obvious mistakes, but. It's one thing to be able to play all the right notes in the right order and it's another to be able to make music; the whole thing with Jecano was that I could take people who don't really like rock music to see them and they would go 'oh, I *see*, it's like really heavy blues!' because they had lots of this thing that makes it music, and on Friday night we had none of it. We've never had lots of it but we've usually got some. Still, the only thing that gets it back is playing together and we've got a gig in, where was it, Uxbridge or something? on Thursday and an actual practice on Sunday and more gigs booked after that so see what we can do.
Oo! I did use my glowing sticks for one song. It was kind of like playing with big lumps of rubber. They're only a little bit more flexible than wooden sticks but that's enough to be weird. Also I'm really not sure who could tell that they were illuminated from off the stage - no-one mentioned it afterwards, the kit at the Montague may be a bit high and far back. Still.
Friday night's PJ gig was, as predicted, a bit awful. We didn't make any obvious mistakes, but. It's one thing to be able to play all the right notes in the right order and it's another to be able to make music; the whole thing with Jecano was that I could take people who don't really like rock music to see them and they would go 'oh, I *see*, it's like really heavy blues!' because they had lots of this thing that makes it music, and on Friday night we had none of it. We've never had lots of it but we've usually got some. Still, the only thing that gets it back is playing together and we've got a gig in, where was it, Uxbridge or something? on Thursday and an actual practice on Sunday and more gigs booked after that so see what we can do.
Oo! I did use my glowing sticks for one song. It was kind of like playing with big lumps of rubber. They're only a little bit more flexible than wooden sticks but that's enough to be weird. Also I'm really not sure who could tell that they were illuminated from off the stage - no-one mentioned it afterwards, the kit at the Montague may be a bit high and far back. Still.