h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

BAND LOG 003

Let me start with a quote from my last band log: "We have decided to get quickly up into the saddle again and take what we've learned of the experience with us".

Fine. Only that was in February In the meantime, Drownin' Ducks' singer, Runa, and saxohponist, Susann, have left the band - which left us quite disheartened. But then, finally, we've made some great changes in the band. The members list now looks like this:

Daniel: Song and electric guitar
Meself: Song (!) and trumpet
Tine: Bass guitar
Marius: Drums

And this whole week, we've all been living under one roof (mine!) and worked eight hours a day at a very intense course for bands. I feel it has really brought us closer together. Anyway, it's mostly the concert the course was ended with I'm writing about, so let's get started.

At the course the lesson was for each band to compose three songs. We opened the concert with our three blueses, and as we're really proud of them I'll tell you some about them:
'Kinda our song' - This is an instrumental with a simple trumpet theme repeating. We put the "kinda" in the title since we were working on the song, but then one of the tutors popped in and rewrote the whole thing except the theme.
'Norwegian summer' - My personal favourite. This is a slow ballad sung by me, with a solo on trumpet and guitar. We wrote it about the crummy weather, as it mentions the rain a lot. I'm planning to brush up the text when I feel for it.
'Mr Fluff' - A bit of a funny story about this one. We were having a writer's block, and as we looked around our "studio" for inspiration, all we could find was a piece of fluff hanging on the wall. Not only did we write a song about a piece of fluff, we actually wrote a song about a psycothic piece of fluff. The song is in two parts, the first one instrumental, and the second one with only the text:

"This is the story about Mr Fluff
He was floating one morning
Ready to kill"
And then there's the theme from Jaws on the bass, playing louder and louder until climaxing in Marius' terrified scream. It brought the house down, which surprised us a great deal.

We had spesifically asked to open the concert as our music style (mostly blues, beat and classic rock) somewhat, er, differed with the rest of the bands. After us were Ekvator, a heavy metal/psychedelia band with a singer with a voice Mick Jagger would be jealous of; Then Piece of Shit, another heavy metal/punk band with some hilarious texts about the suburbia Enebakk, and the finally SchizoTypo (fondly called Alzheimers by the tutors) a clean punk band, with the best amateur guitar player I've met.

So you can see it was somewhat of a mixed bunch. But hey, at least we got along and got a mentioning in the local newspaper.

It was really great to play again (although some important things went wrong, like my evil coldsore acting up all of a sudden) and when we've recharged (it's been a looong week) we're planning to write even more songs. So let's hope we mean it this time