So recently, the band (Ceaux Fly) have been in talks with a local record label (The Honey Label), they came to us after they saw us at the Some Sort of Showcase battle of the band’s style competition. They are interested in recording and EP with us. This is a great opportunity for the band and for all of our musical careers. They will not only be recording us but also helping us to perfect our musical and songwriting abilities. They all seem like nice people with the main guy, Alex Van Roose, writing music for universal, and having a lot of things to his name in the past, including playing at Glastonbury with his old band ‘Heroes’.
In relation to my teaching I am starting a jazz band which will run afterschool every Thursday at Wigston Academy, this will be to year 10 and 11 kids and I will be teaching them how to improve improvisational and general musicianship skills. I have managed to find some music and arrange some parts that shouldn’t be too difficult for them, but I am yet to know how many people will be there or what level they will be so preparing has been hard but I have still done some so that I’m not sat there with no plans whatsoever.
I have managed to promote 2 gigs in total, an acoustic gig at The Musician, and a general gig at The Cookie. Both of these were Leicester College gigs featuring Leicester College musicians. I made posters, a Facebook page, found bands to play and made sure everyone got on and off stage when they were supposed to. The first gig at the Musician over ran by about 20 minutes due to the sound guy not being the best at arriving on time and Blues De La Ceaux overrunning a little bit. But the second gig at the Cookie ran on time, actually finishing about 5-10 minutes before we had to. Each gig had their own problems, the first was to sound guy and sorting a running order, and the second one was mainly sorting out the running order. This was due to the fact that we had far to many bands that wanted to play and in the end had to cut down a lot of them which left a few people unhappy but that’s life.
Will Bryan 