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Well finally it’s available for your listening pleasure or displeasure which ever takes your pick. Kev has done some sterling work and mixed the recording of the last band practice of the unknown covers band. You can get hold of the mp3 from here.

Well, had another band practice this week with myself on the old bongo machine and was just a small fraction easier than the week before. Still I’m not expecting to turn into a proper drumming for several years but can at least bash something out. For those of you with the proper stomach constitution, you can find the very rough and I mean very rough band idea session mp’s from here.

Blimey, just got back from band practice with the new project and played drums for three hours. I’ve kinda always had an interest in playing the drums but never took it anywhere until now. Got a Yamaha DTExpress secondhand off John the old drummer from the last band and have been bashing away.

I’ve just recently upgraded the snare to a mesh type from the nice chaps at ADC drums who where very helpful. They even got the maker of the snare Colin Koby to phone me up as I had problems setting it up. Unfortunately the drum was faulty but they soon sorted that out in a couple of days….. thanks chaps.

Going back to this evening, drumming for 3 hours has taken it out of me but it’s good exercise. Just need to keep practicing and learning so I can get to a reasonably standard to gig with later in the year……

Well with John moving down to Brighton and Alex moving onto other projects the band has finally had it’s last practice. It’s been fun whilst it’s lasted but a shame that we didn’t get a chance to gig. Kev managed to plug us all into his portable recording studio and the mp3’s from this escapade can be found here.

Good luck to the rest of the guys in whatever they do next. Perhaps we’re see each other in other musical adventures….

Ah, we rocked on last night adding another couple of numbers to our ever growing covers set. Half way through the practice we had a couple of visitors to watch us perform in the face of Matt and Phoebe who were gently surprised at us. I guess all Phoebe has seen is me practicing so it was nice to finally see some work put to use! I guess we need to find a good place to gig now…..mmmm, I wonder where that’s gonna be! Kev managed to record the set so for your viewing pleasure you can grab them from here along with some divx recordings from Matt’s camera.