It is nearing the end of half term and it is surprisingly too hot for me already, on top of the immense heat out side, this is then amplified within my partners car because there’s no air conditioning and it is completely black, so all is well apart from the shirt I have sweated through within an hour of use.
We are starting off our day by going to pick up Ethan’s new laptop so when he goes to UNI he can do all of his work more or less at home, then there will no unnecessary trips just to do work which is a smart idea on his end, which doesn’t happen often 🙂
Then we took a trip to PMT to see if his guitar has arrived yet as he has been waiting impatiently all week for it to arrive like a little puppy waiting for food, turns out it is mean’t to arrive tomorrow only because it got held back for not having a tremolo arm.
Driving back home again was fun, if we had the windows down it would hurt our ears but if we had them up we would sweat bullets, the sooner we got out of the little black box the better. When we got back to my house I quickly packed up my bass and changed shirt as I stank, so did Eth, I also gave him a jack cable which merges into a USB so he can use it with his new Macbook on Garageband.
After we had gathered enough food to fuel us for the next 4 hours we set off to pick Jay up which was a long car journey, by the time we got to rehearsal we were all drenched within sweat. We were then met by Will from DXTA who let us in and told us to give the key to the other band rehearsing after us.
I knew that this was going to be a different space to what we have within college so I brought my earplugs with the thicker plugs so my ears weren’t obliterated by the end of the session, along with my cable, strap and brain.
After a hour in or so we took a break as my fingers were so sore and Jay needed a cigarette, so in this picture you can see my bass and Ethan’s big smelly feet believe me the sweat didn’t improve the overall aroma in the room.
But now that we are on to this topic the room was pretty cosy and a nice place to rehearse, it is twenty pound for three hours if you’re a student and if you rehearse from 7pm-10pm you can play all night as long as you lock up after yourselves. We are going to go back again after we have got a sets worth of songs and when we all know our parts fluently so then it just up to playing as a band, here is another picture of the room below;
I completely forgot to mention that I am the new bassist for Acid Vision, Ethan kicked out Jack because he was difficult to work with and very annoying at times. So instead of finding someone else I wanted to play for him because of the experience I will stumble upon and because I have a lot of potential being a fairly young musician.
Here is a video of what we got done in the rehearsal below;
Ellie Thornton Music 