Dan's Blogvent Calendar - December 4th

It's already the 4th of December, which means it's time for me to open another door on the Blogvent Calendar and share some hastily-scrawled musings with you all. I know I promised you all some brief thoughts on A Link Between Worlds today, but last night's events have left me wanting to write about something a little different. Hopefully you can forgive my change of mind. I assure you, those Zelda-based bullet points will be on their way tomorrow.

For the last couple of years, I've been playing drums with some friends as part of a hard rock and heavy metal covers band called Sudden Gunfire. Although we've been together since the start of 2012, we're still very much in our infancy at present. We've been working hard on getting a full evening's worth of music together, and now that we're approaching a repertoire of around thirty songs, we're hoping to start playing some of the pubs and rock bars in the local area next year. We've aired our material a few times at open mic nights and charity band afternoons under marquees in pub gardens, but to date our live experience has been both sporadic and rough-and-ready.

On the 14th of this month, that's set to change.

On the local gigging circuit, there's a very popular band called Old Country Union. They play acoustic rock covers alongside their own original, Eagles-influenced compositions, and I highly recommend them to anyone who thinks that sounds like their kind of thing. On Saturday 14th December, Old Country Union are hosting a huge band night at the local theatre, bringing some of the best and most diverse musical talent onto the biggest stage in town and all in the name of charity. Even now I'm not entirely sure how it's happened, but we're on the bill.

This is a huge opportunity for us. We'll be playing half an hour of our most refined and energetic material to a crowd of around three-hundred-and-fifty, so it's an incredible chance for us to make a name for ourselves in front of local music-goers and set ourselves up to start 2014 heading in the right direction. I'm nervous as hell at the prospect, but also insanely excited. After spending two years working on these songs behind closed doors and in front of small, sometimes disinterested crowds, it will be awesome to finally play them to people who want to hear them. I'm also hugely grateful to Old Country Union for taking a punt on us and giving us a spot on the bill. We're the outliers on what is frankly a stellar line-up, but that just makes me even more determined to put on the best show possible and try to compete.

If you're at all interested in what we sound like, I've embedded a couple of videos below:

Thanks for reading guys. Take care, and I'll see you around.

Dan

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