20/10/09

Hello there!!! long time no speak!

well not much i can say about college this passed week because whe have been on our october holidays

so............

lets talk about Eat Dr. Ape! :)

Well on the 8th we had a gig at the Buff Club in Glasgow which was quite a fun, a very small gig but it could prove to be one of our most important!!! The Promoter "NickQ" turned out to be not just a promoter but the founding member of "The Skinny" and also an ex A&R rep for "X-Phonic records" which is owned by Warner!!!! an he loved us an said that we were "1 of the most existing bands he's sin in a long long time". So he has offered to take us under his wing an help us out with getting bigger gigs and getting in contact with labels :)

Also we played at Bar Bloc in Glasgow on the 14th which was great fun!!! was a small venue but we got a great crowd response and i suppose thats all that matters :)

So yeah........ existing time for Eat Dr. Ape!!!!!

Catch ya next week

JP

06/10/09

Hello again :)

well college news 1st:

Had a very interesting drum lesson it really highlighted my lack of dynamics in my playing so i'm really gonna have to focus on that over these next few months as I feel that having good dynamics i vital in becoming a good session player. Also in creative project we preformed our rearrangement of "like dreamers do" by The Beatles, this also went really well and we had good fun doing it and I suppose thats the true meaning of music, To Have Fun!

Session skills class was also really intreating this week, we learnt all about the importance of contracts in session work an how to put together a professional looking involve.

Now time for Eat Dr. Ape news :)

On tuesday we had our radio interview with perth FM, it actually went better a lot better than i thought it would :) it was good practise for future interviews. We also played a great gig at Maggie Mays in Glasgow and we managed to get enough people there so we beat the evil pay to play scheme yet again!!!! WOOOH!!!

We have also started getting in contact with management companies because we feel that we have taken ourselves to the pinnacle of our knowledge and we now need that extra push that a good manager can provide.

il tell you what from being in Eat Dr. Ae my networking skills have greatly improved an i think it will work greatly in my favour when i later look into session work.

thats all for this week :)

byeeeeee

JP