As some of you may know, Katie Tefal is leaving us at the end of the year so that she can commit more time to her solo career. We've been assured of back stage passes to the her first gig at the Royal Albert Hall ;-)
Dirt Devil Dave has stood in for her when she's been away a couple of times and will take over the drum stood full time in the New Year. Changing band members always means some hard graft in the rehearsal room but it gives us a really good strong start to the year having a new band member who already knows a set worth of material!
There's gonna be some new songs being banged out with him as well as him learning more of our existing repertoire. Can't wait for the ABBA song...
Dirt Devil Dave has stood in for her when she's been away a couple of times and will take over the drum stood full time in the New Year. Changing band members always means some hard graft in the rehearsal room but it gives us a really good strong start to the year having a new band member who already knows a set worth of material!
There's gonna be some new songs being banged out with him as well as him learning more of our existing repertoire. Can't wait for the ABBA song...
We dumped our bags at the Doghouse and headed into St Peter Port for breakfast. We went down the concrete steps which were a bit wet and my trainers slipped and I sort of surfed down three steps before falling on my back. I'm sure it looked spectactular! The rest of the band showed concern rather than laugh (which they did for the rest of the weekend). Ouch!
The next day, we were treated to a tour of the island by David, owner of the Doghouse. He's got a big mercedes so squished four of us in the back and Bully in the front. I'm so pleased he didn't have a Micra or Fiesta! He drove us around the south of the island before stopping at the Rockmount and Cobo (two of his other properties) for lunch. We had a walk along the beach with his dog towards a German lookout. It's amazing the structures that they built within only 5 years of occupation.
We drove round to the North of the island and then back to the Doghouse, with the offer of a gig on the balcony of Cobo on August Bank Holiday weekend. They close the road and the audience stand on the road and the beach watching the gig. It's said to be rather good fun. We've got some other committments that weekend, but if we can do it, it would be great.