Welcome to the latest feature to be added to SanchoPanza.ca! Friendly Friday Updates!
While the other regular categories (Monday's Bands to Watch and Weekly Project Wednesdays) are focussed on providing entertainment and/or education (or is that educational entertainment?), Fridays are dedicated to updating you on my current musical situation.
I arrived in London, England almost 4 weeks ago. In that time I've managed to secure all of the requirements for living save a job to pay the bills. I've also managed to join a band. We currently don't have a name although some have been bandied about (A Forest, Birthday Candles, Ship of Fools, among others). It all came together rather quickly. I arrived in London knowing that a band would be formed with my Rockets Fall comrade Tarek, and his guitar whiz cousin Assad, but we figured that we would have trouble finding a drummer. We were wrong. Tom Ireland was the first to respond to our Gumtree add, and his drumming style is perfect for what we have in mind. We've already got two songs well in form and will be coming up with more shortly once the holiday season is over. Expect us to hit the gig circuit mid-to-late spring with hopefully a festival appearance in the summertime.
For Sancho Panza solo material, there has been a bit of a lull as I await the arrival of my gear which is sitting at Heathrow airport. I intend to pick it up tomorrow, and will then be able to get back to recording which will be great. I've got a couple of new tunes written that I will share with you all, and will probably form the basis of my demo which I will be shopping around in a month with any luck.
London is a great city with a lot of music venues, and I can't wait to get out there and perform in some of them. If you have any tips on your favorite places to play, or go to listen to good music in London town, please drop me a line, I'd love to hear them.
That's it for now. Keep your eyes peeled for another update next week.
S.P.
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