Band Meeting

On Monday night, Honeybone had a Band Meeting.

Unfortunately for us, Honeybone meetings don't involve as much humour as Brett and Jermaine's meetings. Unless Peter is having a particularly stellar night with his 'Dad' like puns. 

Nevertheless we had a band meeting. And it was productive! Our band meetings are never usually productive, as the boys often start talking about the latest gear they've aquired and how it sounds so much better than that other amp they only bought last week. I don't really care about gear, my drumkit makes a noise like a drumkit should, and that's good enough for me.

These gals would never have had this problem. Their band meetings would have been super productive.

Our band meeting could also have been called a 'listening party'. We even had red wine, which I accidently had in the fridge. Aren't we just a little bit fancy. We were listening to the demos we recording YONKS ago (see blog post 'The Weekend #2'), and decided whether we needed to change anything. I was the secretary, so I wrote everything down in my handy-dandy notebook.

Honeybone is in the 'Awesome Class'

We came up with some really good stuff for the album, and we're gonna try it on for size at band practice tomorrow night.

Also for you dedicated readers who aren't the facebook type of people, here's an update of our gigs thus far.

July 21st: Refuel w/ Hangman and The Flaming Drivers. 9pm, $5

July 28th: Carousel acoustic gig. More details TBA

August 6th: Dunedin Musicians Club w/ Hunting Bears, Kitten Surprise, Tommy Gunners + More. 7.45pm

August 13th:A United Solidarity Party/Gig at Buller St w/ Kitten Surprise + More TBA. Also Feathers 21st :)

August 24th: Pint Night at Refuel w/ Burlesque girls! and more TBA

August 25th: Support slot for LUGER BOA and BLACK RIVER DRIVE, Revolver, Queenstown!

August 27th: Support slot for LUGER BOA and BLACK RIVER DRIVE, Saints and Sinners, Invercargill

We are total gig whores.

love xxx

The Rambler

So today I realised how I have been hideously neglecting this blog in favour of other, less amusing pursuits. Sorry guys, I even had to log into blogger.com, it had been that long. Wtf mates.

I'm sorry!

So last blog I promised a ramble worthy of being included into the script of "Wedding Crashers', but I did not deliver.
Heres my second attempt.


Whilst walking to various destinations the other day, I decided to give the Foo Fighters new album a listen, as I had only just put it onto my ipod. I fucking LOVE it! With my new pricey headphones the whole thing sounded awesome, and I only had it on half volume so I wouldn't damage my precious earsies.
Gold star to you, Dave Grohl.


But whilst I was listening (whilst is such an awesome word), I remembered a certain Simon Sweetman blog about the Foo Fighters. He said (among other things) this:


'The advance press for the new album focused on how it was back to the sound of The Colour and The Shape'


And then Sweetman said how none of the other Foos albums stands up to it at all, even though he didn't like 'The Colour And The Shape' all that much. (You can read the article here)


Which is ok, because that's his opinion. Luckily for him hundreds of people get to read his stupid opinion everyday.
But that is not the point.
What I was musing whilst walking and listening to 'Wasting Light', was why bands frequently feel the need to tell their fans their new album is going to be like a previous one (usually the one that sold the most copies/is 
most popular with hardcore fans). I do not understand this logic. I am one of the rare forgiving fans.

This girl would love any of the albums Pikachu released...

Lets use an example. From the time I was 13 until I was about 19, Metallica were my favourite band. Now, because I am young in comparison to other Metallica fans, I only became a fan when St. Anger came out. I loved Master of Puppets, but I also equally loved Load and Reload, albums that Metallica's hardcore metal fans were not so keen on. Of course, I hated St. Anger, but that was more because of the drum sound than anything else. The snare is fucking AWFUL in that album. 


Anyway, you see my point. Yes, band's should listen to what their fans/record companies say, but they shouldn't endevour to recreate their past glory and make albums that all sound the same. I think Sweetman would definitely have something to say if he heard a band with 10 albums that sounded like they were all recorded in the same week.


Shihad is another example. I've heard people say 'General Electric is awesome, they should try and make another album that sounds like that!'.
WHY! Why would a band do that, thats just like playing in a covers band and not changing your setlist for 20 years. People eventually get bored of you and move on. This is why Shihad are one of my favourite bands, because each of their albums sound completely different and you can tell that they were at different points in their lives for each one. Magical. 


So that's just one thing I was musing about today. Another was how AWESOME Bohemian Rhapsody is. Pure musical genius! And it's perfect for singalongs. Why, when we were filming the video for All My Sins, we had an impromptu singalong of Bohemian Rhapsody, with every single person at the party singing. Man, it was actually one of the more epic moments of my life. Hamish thought he had the camera rolling but he didn't which was a bit of a shame. 


I talk about this because Drew's 21st was on Saturday night, and we wrapped it up with a 4 person rendition of the Queen hit. It rocked, and made the night pretty much the best party since my own 21st. 


And now here I am, sporting some intense whiplash from headbanging to the rocky part of the song (Waynes World-esque), but it was all worth it.

These guys are cooler, because they did it in the Mirth Mobile