Band update

I don’t often write proper band news on this blog and the expectation that I be funny each blog has indeed overtaken the point of this whole project which was for Wifey and I to push the boundaries of two parents of young children in our thirty somethings forming a band and seeing how far we could realistically go (don’t get us wrong ...there are no delusions of grandeur at Machero towers I can’t seeing us making a living from this project etc...etc..but I‘m sure we can be a successful local gigging band. ) but I just feel the need on this occasion to let you all know what is happening with Hot Machero for a change!!!!

Next gig is the St Margaret Clitherow School Christmas Fayre on 24/11/2007. this is a very important gig for us as it will be our first outing in our new improved line up. We will be playing six or seven songs two of which will be Christmas hits....a few new covers and some of our old favourites. We will be using this gig to hand round as many flyers as possible to promote the band and maybe get some paid gigs. Incidentally members of the St Margaret Clitherow PTA came down to rehearsals on Friday to see for themselves what they were letting themselves in for and each song was met with cheers and one of the ladies asked if we would accept a gig at a pub in Binfield where she works if she could arrange it.....(this has happened before ....so although pleased at the suggestion until such time we are playing to a pub full of people ...I’ll not get too excited).......Boots our suspect wizard singer was however grinning like a Cheshire cat as they suggested he sounded just like John Lennon!!!!! they genuinely seemed impressed at our music...which was nice.

We are taking photographs next Saturday afternoon for our flyers ....should be fun. We have also been booked in for the 26/01/2008 at a nightclub in Reading (can’t say which one yet as it isn’t a done deal) Most of you will remember James (locker room liaison blog fame) he did actually sing “I want to Hold your hand “ with us at our very first gig ( although we thank him profusely ....he however doesn’t sound like John Lennon) well it’s his 30th birthday and we are apparently headlining the show ......ha ha ha!! scary I know! there will be at least another band and some solo artists before us and we will be doing a 40 minute set with fully mic’d up drums and a professional PA with sound engineer ,lights etc etc... It will also be a chance for us to play some of our own stuff .

We are currently going through Boots’ songs seeing what will work for us. They have obvious Beatles influence and are good well-written songs that we are enjoying playing . .“Sticks and Plates “ is nearly at the performance stage of it’s Hot Machero life. Wifey has been inspired by Boots and has written a song called the “The Wrong Tune” It got it’s first rehearsal on Friday’s rehearsal and Barabanshik has put a great drum beat to it and it sounds kind of tribal but with wifey singing in her “Kate bush esque” way it really sounds different. Barabanshik also likened it to early Black Sabbath and Boots heard a bit of Rush in there too. The song stuck in my head all weekend and I must admit I really do like it. I think the rest of the band do too . She is in the process of writing another which is sounding good too.