sharon's blog

Hi all - I woke up feeling wistful this morning after our first proper gig with Kim our new drummer at the Victoria Club in Chesterfield last night - a great venue, fantastic stage, big room, good acoustics and staff who really seem to care about music and want to keep rock music playing there. I am not sure if I dreamt/remembered or imagined a night of people dancing, loving live music and engaging with the band. Didn't it used to be like that?

Another blog from me! I really must get my act together and put my thoughts down more often.

 But I was so pleased with our most recent practice that I wanted to share it! It felt for me like coming home musically, like we were all excited by what we were playing and sounded fantastic together. My voice seemed to be coming from somewhere else - if you know what I mean - as if it was bypassing my brain! That is a great feeling......a kind of altered state...

Long time no blog....thought I had better break my silence and mention our recent gig in the wilds of Derbyshire (the best county in the UK, of course!) in Castleton or thereabouts. It brought back memories for me as I remember going on a train to Hope station as a child with my parents and my brother to experience camping and walking and other healthy outdoor pursuits. I can almost feel the bracing air in my lungs....

Hi Y'all - I have wanted to draw up a diary of my part of our collective experience all week but have been dogged with technology nightmares so I'm just going to describe my highlights in brief, before I forget all the detail!

Hello - not written anything for a long time as life has intervened in varous ways, mainly in the form of my MA essay! I will start spouting Foucault soon and that would be very sad.....!

Helloooo! Just wanted to say that I enjoyed last night. I'm never sure how I feel about going on last, headlining or not, but it was good getting postive feedback from the people who had not gone for a bus/smoke!! Weird trying to balance on those 'stage boxes' though - I was definitely in danger of either decapitation from the damoclean chandelier or of legging myself up in the gaps between the boxes. Oh the joys of live performance!! 

I feel like that bloke on the Fast Show - does anyone remember that? He was inexhaustibly enthusiastic about everything - everything was brilliant. Then there was his 'alter ego' who thought everything was rubbish. I think I vacillate between the two states but, at the moment, I am in the happy 'brilliant' state. Playing amongst the lights, with my friends in the audience, singing our own material, with our new mascot Gonk Gimp (courtesy of Janet) strapped to Ruth's drum kit, and then having a laugh and a chat with everyone afterwards was up there in my top experiences.

Hello all - I know I am inconsistent and a bit crappy at doing blogs but thought I would write this afternon to say how pleased I am with the final version of the CD. Yeh! Am looking forward to being able to get it out to people and to seeing what people think. A huge thankyou to Steve for all the hours of engineering, to Keith at Fairview for the final mastering, to David for doing the copies and to Pete for realising our ideas for the design and his excellent contributions.

Just to say that I am really enjoying singing and performing at the moment. Saturday night at the Horseshoe was a great gig for me. We were all tight and in the groove, the audience were great - really appreciative and into it - and we had people coming to see us from previous gigs, which is a real compliment. The songs just kind of flowed out of me - a wonderful feeling. My own high is probably also due in no small measure to the 10th position we've reached in the ReverbNation chart and the fan comments, which are a fantastic shot in the arm.