WC 13.06.2016 - World Skills

We came in to rehearse on Monday ready for the Gig on Tuesday in Newcastle.

I think rehearsal went well we just needed to work on stage presence.

On Tuesday we performed and I thought it went well but the keyboard was really out of time and we all needed more stage presence. Unfortunately we didn't get named in the top three bands but it was great to see all the other bands and learn from them however this does mean we can't get through to the final heat. All of the performances have been once again sent of to a board.

For the rest of the week we are just getting on with course work as the end of the year is coming up quickly and we need to get all of our work completed.

WC 6.06.2016 - World Skills Update

This week we also found out that we were through to the second heat of the World Skills competition so we had to choose two songs but they were not allowed to be on the list that was given previously. So we chose to do an original called 'Where did it all go wrong?' and a mash up of  'Seven nation army/sweet dreams'.

For these songs we made them contrasting and added harmonies to make them more interesting again we gave the song dynamics and changed the tone in places to make the song sound full and interesting. We have a week to rehearse this so we rehearsed all week to be ready for the gig which will be held in Gateshead in newcastle.

WC 6.06.2016 - Gig Week

Today is the day of the gig so the whole band came in early to rehears, we rehearsed our set a few times which we got told would be 3 songs so our set list was
-No More
-Hymn for the weekend
-Leave it all behind

Then when we were happy we were all ready for the gig.

We all was waiting bad stage and we closed the show, it went well we were al in time and in tune and we played well as a unit. We interacted with the audience but we still need to work on our stage craft because we don't use the whole stage.  Overall the gig went well and we got some good feedback from people at the end, however i did feel like I was flat.

WC 30.05.2016 - Absent

We were not in college due to half term.

WC 23.05.2016 - Reflective Diary

This week we didn't rehearse because I had tonsillitis and a swollen trachea, so i couldn't sing as I didn't want to make it any worse because I wanted to be better for the gig.

WC 16.05.2016 - Reflective Diary

This week we added a cover to our set list. We did Hymn for the weekend by Coldplay but changed up the genre to pop punk, it was only a short two minute cover but we added it as extra material for our set for the gig to make it more interesting.

We just carried on rehearsing all of the songs until we knew them off by heart because the gig is now only in 3 weeks!

Next week we will just rehearse again as its our last week for rehearsal.

WC 9.05.2016 - Reflective Diary

This week we just rehearsed all of our material from our original band because there is only 5 more weeks until the gig!

We came up with an instrumental but we decided we wasn't going to worry about it too much because we had enough songs to play at the gig.

This week we all played well as a band and rehearsed non stop to get our songs gig ready. This meant we rehearsed the songs to death but we had to do it so we would be ready and we'd remember all of our songs.

Next week we will be rehearsing all of theses songs again.