Formed a band
We formed a band
It's all fun and games at 6 Music at the moment. We have formed a house band, and we're currently rehearsing on Wednesday nights - in the Hub! - when the studios are empty as we switch to Manchester for Marc Riley at 7pm. It's like one of those things that people threaten to do, but never do. All credit to Jim for getting it off the ground - he's the keyboard wizard. Other members include Jude, Jax, Nemone, Gid, Mark and Mike. With me on drums, thanks to the excellent junior kit Frank has lent us for the duration. (That isn't it, by the way, but it's similar.) Apart from a couple of impromptu sessions in Frank's basement when he used to produce Teatime, and that one soundcheck with Cud in Wakefield, circa 1991, when their drummer went AWOL and I bashed my way through Rich And Strange, I haven't really sat behind a kit since the mid-80s, when I went to college and had to leave the Northampton goth band I was in, God Bless The Grass. I used to love being a teenage drummer, even though it meant I could never get drunk at gigs as I had to borrow Mum's car to cart my kit home. It was actually good exercise too, certainly the only exercise I did at that age!
It feels great to have a pair of sticks in my hands again, and I really enjoyed blowing off the cobwebs on Wednesday night to an already-forming set full of standard and not-so-standard cover versions: Mr Blue Sky, Folsom Prison Blues (Gid's big moment), The First Of The Gang To Die, Get Back, Rehab, Ballad Of John & Yoko, White Man In Hammersmith Palais etc. Our first and possibly only gig is the 6 Music Christmas party. The rest of the band really are excellent, and though we may still be a little rickety, we actually sound a bit like a band. The wine bar circuit awaits! Three more rehearsals to go before the big night. It's a thrill. And it's what I love about 6 Music - the people. Always remember that.
Oh, and here's me drumming with Cud, just to prove this historic moment is not just in my fevered mind:
posted by Andrew Collins @ 10:45 PM
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I think a recording should be made, for posterity. A 6Music session beckons! It sounds like fun.
Actually drumming impresses me more than guitar/keyboard playing and singing, being unable to even do a drum roll myself (how is that done?) So er well done. Does 'junior' mean it's for children?
This is fantastic news! I'm so happy for you. I second the suggestion of a recording. Perhaps for posterity and for charity?
I think "junior" just means small. It's a proper, professional kit.
I suppose, being a radio station, it wouldn't be too tricky to record a Hub session. I'll have to ask Jim. He's the bandleader and the technical whizz.
I'd pay good money to hear your version of 'Mr Blue Sky'!
G'wan g'wan g'wan g'wan g'wan g'wan g'wan
g'wan g'wan g'wan g'wan g'wan g'wan g'wan
g'wan g'wan g'wan g'wan g'wan g'wan g'wan
record it !
You could easily have passed for a member of Cud in those days. That photo reminds me of Cud's cover of The Family Cat's Remember What It Is That You Love. One of the best things they did and, sadly, not on the Anthology CD.
I think you guys should work up at least one original, maybe a 6 Music themesong. Or cover one of those imaging montages -- how funny would that be?
Family Cat t-shirt? You don't see enough of them these days.
I'm the very proud owner of a Family Cat "All Other Bands Are Dogsh*te" T-shirt. What a band.
Cud? THE cud? How cool!
Andrew
I like the Morrisey haircut!!
Crikey Andrew, look at that quiff. How much hairspray did yuo have to use for that? Are you the main reason there is such a big hole in the ozone layer?!
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