Rehearsal of a complete set.

Last Saturday we rehearsed a complete 45min set (actually closer to 50min).
Here it is.
Acton Zappa at Survival 2015-01-17 Set

A chance to see us play live coming up on Saturday 9th May

Back in the Studio and we will soon be on the Radio.

Last Saturday was the first rehearsal of the year at Survival Studios in Acton (where else). I thought it went pretty well. We mostly worked on the harder numbers and finally played, for the first time, the whole of Echidna; the last section still needs plenty of work. Lynne turned up about 30mins before we finished and took some pics and video but the camera ran out of memory so I've now ordered a new bigger memory card for it.

I recorded everything, except our warm-up Chunga's Revenge on my Zoom and IMHO the best sounding tracks are "Oh No" and "Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance" so when I had a request from Andrew Greenaway for a couple of tracks to play on his radio show, to help promote Festival MOO-AH, these were the two tracks I sent him.

As to the festival, on Friday 20th March, we need to drive up to Corby in the morning for a soundcheck in the afternoon and we'll go on stage around 8pm or possibly a little earlier. We will be the first band to play and Ian has requested that we start playing something to pull the audience into the hall and then he will make a brief announcement about the festival. I was thinking of Chunga for this but am now thinking Oh No might be better. Our set will be around 45mins and John and Tom have requested a set list so I need to put a provisional list together soon, certainly before our rehearsal this coming Saturday - watch this space.

We're now on the flyer for Festival MOO-AH!

We will be playing at Festival Moo-ah in March. Andrew Greenaway saw our recent gig and invited us to join the steller line-up. It's official!


 http://www.festivalmoo-ah.com/Bands.htm

We now have a flyer!

Hopefully this will help in getting us some more gigs.

Lots been happening since my last post.
We have rehearsed at Survival Studios a couple of times Blessed Relief @ Survival and played our first two gigs.
The first at a wedding anniversery party and then last night at Northfields Christmas Market in Ealing.
Both went pretty well.
These are the tunes we played last night:

Chunga's Revenge
Oh No
Echidna's Arf
Black Napkins
Blessed Relief
Why Does It Hurt – instrumental
Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance
Footprints
Pojama People
Son of Orange County
More Trouble Comin' Every Day
Camarillo Brillo / Muffin Man

Thankfully there were a few Zappa freaks present to enjoy our sets including the Idiot Bastard himself Mr Andrew Greenaway.

Next thing is to add a few more numbers to our reportoire and get some more gigs.