Let's Start a Band and Get Outta This Place

So I have finally started a band and it was all by chance. In September in the run up to Ladyfest Ten online magazine The Girls Are set up a battle of the bands competition as a fundraiser for Ladyfest Ten. The ultimate band would win a place on the Ladyfest Ten set list. I thought it was a great idea and when saw a message looking for girls that wanted to start a riot grrrl band for the competition I immediately replied.

After all these years who would have thought that being able to set up a band would be so easy. No more playing quietly alone in my room, writing songs no one else will here. Now I'm in a real life band.

I met up with Ray and we both had similar ideas of what kind of music we wanted to make and decided to meet up again for a jam session. A few weeks later we did and we successful wrote two songs, which are think are awesome.

Since it was just us two we had to advertise for other members. A few gumtree posts later and we're starting to look like a fully formed band that consist of Ray, lead guitar, Claudia, bass, me, rhythm guitar, Harry, vocals and Sophie, drums.

We don't actually have a name yet but we won't let that stop us. Hopefully after we practise a bit more, we can get a bit tighter and actually gig. So exciting.