By skamonic
We are of course a well-oiled machine on stage, but it’s quite rare for us to get everyone together for a whole afternnon’s rehearsal.
But as we are playing with a changed line-up and doing some new vocal numbers at our Friday gig, we have spent a very productive afternoon at East London’s very reasonable Kafri rehearsal studios.
I’m not going to reveal the new numbers but one is an 80s synth-pop classic that has almost certainly never been given a ska makeover before and another is from the Motown songbook.
By skamonic
We are of course a well-oiled machine on stage, but it’s quite rare for us to get everyone together for a whole afternnon’s rehearsal.
But as we are playing with a changed line-up and doing some new vocal numbers at our Friday gig, we have spent a very productive afternoon at East London’s very reasonable Kafri rehearsal studios.
I’m not going to reveal the new numbers but one is an 80s synth-pop classic that has almost certainly never been given a ska makeover before and another is from the Motown songbook.
By skamonic
This is our first post in the new Skamonics blog. Here is where you can expect gig updates; news about the band and its members; and perhaps the odd thought about music.
Our first gig in 2010 is on Friday Jan 8th, and it’s upstairs at the Ritzy in Brixton. We expect to play our first set at about 8:30.
This will be our first gig playing with a slimmed down six person format. We’ll have two horns and a bit more emphasis on vocal numbers.
This isn’t a change in our line-up as we will still do gigs with a full nine piece wall of ska sound, but it’s not always practical or economic to field the full team. We can’t even fit on some stages.
The Evening Standard describes us as a ska collective – which is just about right.
They also say that we will be performing songs from our repertoire.
This is puzzling as it’s a bit obvious. After all it would be quite hard to perform songs that weren’t in our repertoire, and simply by performing them we’d be adding them to our repertoire.
But there will be at least a couple of new numbers, and the return of some that we have rarely played. Both pedants and ordinary people are very welcome.
A good way to start 2010.
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