After weeks of just jamming and practicing there was never a suggestion of starting a band, this was just something to pass the time until we went off to uni, but we soon realised after telling people what we were doing, that if we went out and played in public people sometimes turn up and clap. It was never too serious, we just wanted to get the songs out there and perform live, and we weren’t aiming to build fan bases and sell stuff or want people to want to see us. It was a bit of fun. Soon after playing every venue we could in Cambridge and hearing the same old “Cool songs but you need more people on stage” we looked around and found George and his Telecaster. We didn’t play live with George for months, we just practiced and with the help from a friend’s studio we recorded our first EP together. After that George found us a bassist, Billy, whose opening line to us was “I don’t know anything about chords and that, but if you show me what to do I’m a quick learner”. That was good enough for us.
Our first show as a full band was in Peterborough, George and Billy were very new to playing in front of a crowd and this was a town that had never heard of us before, there was a sense of something, not nerves but we weren’t exactly jumping up and down with eagerness either. The highlight of the night would have been Billy disappearing mid-set to get a drink in from the bar, without the rest of us noticing. 5 months later, after a collection of local and not-so-local shows we appeared on the BBC Introducing Live Lounge in Cambridge, performing a collection of songs which appeared on our DEMO CD. That was one of the first highlights of the band, despite the lack of a finger food reception and champagne which Billy expected from quaint old Cambridge. By this point in the year, with exams lingering we all had a choice to make, 3 of us did anyway, the big question was should we ease off the music and knuckle down and work hard for the exams? Instead we booked shows all the way through the summer to not only keep us from seeing a textbook, but also all our friends.
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