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New band - The Elks

I have been playing with a band since last August. I haven't mentioned it until now as there was nothing to really tell. Not that there's anything particularly amazing happening now but we are starting to venture out of our rehearsal room.

We checked out a studio downtown today where we're going to record our first demo. The studio is old school, dark and dingy but has a really good vibe. Tommy Stinson recorded there, Tom Petty, The Posies, Greg Dully and a whole slew of other musicians. The studio is called Orbit click here for a looksy. So we're planning on getting in mid May to record four songs. We've written twenty and have picked a solid ten songs that are all in the same vein / vibe. Style is somewhere between Teenage Fanclub, The Walkmen, Rival Schools and Lemonheads. It's very much me and my style though, more Peach than Petrol, slightly more mature I guess but definitely very rocking!

The demo will be used to get us on the local radio station, KEXP (which is also broadcast in New York and has the largest online listenership in the world kexp.org) and to get us gigs. Through radio exposure we hope to get interest at live shows and build up a local following. We don't want much more than that, other that to tour the world and elsewhere of course... nah, if we could play around the state and maybe Portland we'd be very pleased indeed.

We've agreed to debut at the bass player, Scott's 40th birthday party, in a couple of weeks. It's at the old Elks club where we've stolen the band's name from. We are, for now at least, The Elks.

NO SPRING!!!

So I've been riding my bike to work since early February. Then it was cold and not too rainy, the usual end of winter weather. Since then, it has got progressively colder, wetter and even colder. It's meant to snow tomorrow - Friday 18th April!