A year to celebrate

Well, its been a year. A year of jamming and making music and trashing songs and making a million plans of doing a million things and playing many many shows. Its been a year of havoc nonetheless and its been a great year for sure and what a way to celebrate it. Yes i am talking about The Big Mushroom Cloud Festival of course. Some really good times these were, with many many bands that joined us on stage and off and some that even "battled" their way into our hearts.

To start with, we treated ourselves and our very eager drummer to a not-so-shiny drum kit. We've all waited for toys that we've always wanted and our kul-mute(in kannada = little gunnybag) has waited a real long time for this but its finally here. We're also back to our birthplace, the "room" in canara bank layout and we won't tell how good it feels.

Jams have been scarce with exams and work pressures, somehow the shows have also been scarce. But its okay really, The Live Gig Networks have helped us a lot in the past few months and there are more plans coming up.

As i said in the start of the year, The Bicycle Days did come out with their EP. Well produced and some intense concept revolving around in there. No matter what anyone says, its simply trippy. I like all the songs and the hidden track vain gloria reminds me of the first time i looked up their myspace page and started conversing with Karthik. Good times. Their schedule is pretty much full so you can catch them live and really experience their music. Check 'em out on myspace or get in touch with them on facebook.

Clipped Wing Satellite put out more songs and a phenomenal performance at the big mushroom cloud. As much as i would want to hear some vocals on their tracks(i've been trying some as well), i somehow seem to appreciate and enjoy their music without it.

Bangalore seems to house a lot of bands some with real talent. I just wish they get a little less serious and start playing music because they want to. Seriousness and commitment is a must, i agree, but if you're not having fun out there, whats the point really?

Anyways, next on the agenda is a book reading. Ashok Malhotra, an Indian author is launching his book called Child Man - The Selfless Narcissist and is having a sort of a performance with a few actors from Rafiki. They thought we could add a little color to their performance with some light acoustic music. We did go jam with them once and it was quite something. The book is quite interesting, it tries to understand the human psyche through characters from the Mahabharata. Facebook RSVP here.

We're finally getting to play at the world music day celebrations at Alliance Francaise, also known as fete de la musique. More on that soon.

Lastly, for those who've asked enough and are bugged, we will go into recording soon. This is probably one thing we don't want to hurry and at the same time we're not trying to slack of either. It'll happen and trust me, we're all waiting for it as well.

Much love and peace!

p.s. it really really sucks ass that they might chop off all those trees in Sadashivnagar because someone wants a 6lane road that connects cauveri theatre to yashwantpur.sad.