Audition OMG!

Wow, the audition was an experience!
We turned up 20 minutes late only to be told we were early!
Pete the singer was just settling down to his dinner so we had a cup of tea and chatted for a bit. The drummer Keith turned up about 40 minutes late. We sat through an episode of The Simpsons and were about half way through Futurama when I suggested we should probably do something musical. Despite turning up in a huge van Keith hadn't thought to bring his kit with him so disappeared for another 30 minutes to go home and get it. It also transpired that there were no guitarists in the band and that a couple of people had been approached but hadn't yet shown they were interested.

We then stuck on a CD with the five tracks that I had been asked to learn on it to play along and see how things went. Pete didn't seem to know the lyrics properly to any of the songs other than Little Wing and was very nervous so it took him a while to really get into it although he did seem to have a pretty good voice once he had relaxed. Keith was more nervous than Pete and had never been in a band before. I figured that playing along to the CD would help things. Keith confessed that he didn't really practice and had only been playing for 18 months. Unfortunately he struggled to even keep a simple rhythm going playing along to the CD. If anything is to happen in the future then he MUST practice.

When we left I said that they needed to get themselves a guitarist lined up and then maybe we could have another shot at things. If Keith doesn't practice a lot more though I can't really see it going anywhere. So the search for a band is going to continue.

On the plus side, having now practised and played a bit I am now more than ever determined to kick start my involvement in music again.