The Band and our Capers

Before I begin, just to clarify- by capers I mean adventures and past events, not a flavour giving inedible seasoning material. If I was posting about the latter, I can almost guarantee it would be very boring (or would it? ...cue inappropriate sample of X-files theme)

I have not been posting for a while, and I wish I had because the band has been up to so much stuff since i stopped. Lets just say we have come a considerable distance from Battery Powered. (whoever those guys were).

I left blogging just after we had recorded our first album. Since then, we have become more locally popular and we really have a feel for the sound we want to make. There has also been some developments with regards to becoming famous... When we played at doddstock, we were somewhat 'noticed' by a soundman who was there to run the rig for a band called Jonny: Black. They were very good. The man, "Dave Matthews" said he was an associate of the management company that were in charge of jonny: black, and he was keen to see us play in front of a non local audience. So we packed some things and set off on the road- to braunton, near barnstaple. This was the furthest away from Torbay we had ever been!

We left for North Devon, looking awesome and totally not lame as usual.

When we got there and had unpacked and stuff, we played a lovely set to the locals of Braunton at their flagship pub, "the agricultural inn". However, the locals know it as the Aggi. What follows it a short dialogue between Wade and some locals when we were finding our way there:

Wade: Excuse me, do you know where the Agricultural Inn is?

Some local old people: (IN REALLY POSH VOICES) haw haw haw! The agricultural inn? Oh, no, thats far too posh for us! We call it the Aggi!

So there we are, and we then became proper friends with some really cool people, namely "Kansas Matthews"... Well, you see Kansas is an interesting man... his name is Kansas, after where he was conceived. He is the bass player in Jonny: Black.

So there he is. While we were in his car on the way to his house to pick up some cymbals, we discovered he is actually the son of our prospective manager, Dave. It also surfaced that before his dad was helping him in Jonny:Black, he was previously in a band called MENDELA... Kansas then proceeded in pulling off a fantastic impression of cartman from south park with regards to "...but dad..." hehe.

After we played, Dave expressed an interest in our band, and said he wanted to come down and watch us again on home turf to discuss things further... this is awesome. It looks like Ricky and the Pigeons have taken our first steps to actually getting somewhere useful in terms of being a successful band.

Stay tuned, as that very meeting is happening on the 9th of October...