Monday, January 30, 2006
Sigh of Relief
The Festival Association conference is now officially over, and it was a huge success!
I'd had it up to here preparing-so now I can get on to bigger and brighter things.
I was a little nervous at first, when I saw some of the other vendors and got a glimpse of some of the other bands, but after we played (quite well, actually!) and finally heard the bands, I didn't feel quite so bad. We were just as good, if not better. And to pat myself on the back, I was the only female performer who played an instrument. ( I also thought I was one of the better female singers...) The other bands were very good-and we were more in our element. We fit in with them, playing a lot of the same kind of stuff, and weren't such a standout to what we're in competition with down here in the musical wasteland. superlow was kinda fun-they play a lot of hair band stuff, but I really think we're better!
What was nice was that people were truly interested in booking us. We may have picked up a festival in Fordyce and Lee Ann Dilbeck wants us for Lum & Abner Days. Wow, playing my old home town. What a big deal! The whole event was a step in the right direction. The sound company was also really good to us, very pro. The highlight of the evening was Ben Zephyr, this band out of Denton. They were more than awesome. I hadn't seen a band do choreography since about 1989. Not cheezy Warrant choreography, they just would all jump in the air at one time. Damn, they were good. Nice guys and lots of fun.
I downloaded my application for Rock Star: The Series. That should be a riot. Don't know who the band is yet, or if they're even doing a particular lead singer search, but I'll send it in for giggles. We'll see what happens there.
I haven't worked on the book-I'm still stalling on Jon and Season's argument. Maybe now that AFA is over and we'll just be gigging from here on out and working on the new album, I'll get on that. I'm anxious to finish, so I can start bothering publishers. I did talk to a lady from the Arkansas Literary Festival over the weekend-she thought it was cool I was finishing a novel and thought it would be neat to present it one of these days-probably in about 80 years. No, hopefully not that long! Pretty soon I should have some pictures, or at least the one good one that we got, from the showcase to post here. I'm thinking about buying a digital camera with my birthday money then I'll have pictures everywhere! Oh, no!
I'd had it up to here preparing-so now I can get on to bigger and brighter things.
I was a little nervous at first, when I saw some of the other vendors and got a glimpse of some of the other bands, but after we played (quite well, actually!) and finally heard the bands, I didn't feel quite so bad. We were just as good, if not better. And to pat myself on the back, I was the only female performer who played an instrument. ( I also thought I was one of the better female singers...) The other bands were very good-and we were more in our element. We fit in with them, playing a lot of the same kind of stuff, and weren't such a standout to what we're in competition with down here in the musical wasteland. superlow was kinda fun-they play a lot of hair band stuff, but I really think we're better!
What was nice was that people were truly interested in booking us. We may have picked up a festival in Fordyce and Lee Ann Dilbeck wants us for Lum & Abner Days. Wow, playing my old home town. What a big deal! The whole event was a step in the right direction. The sound company was also really good to us, very pro. The highlight of the evening was Ben Zephyr, this band out of Denton. They were more than awesome. I hadn't seen a band do choreography since about 1989. Not cheezy Warrant choreography, they just would all jump in the air at one time. Damn, they were good. Nice guys and lots of fun.
I downloaded my application for Rock Star: The Series. That should be a riot. Don't know who the band is yet, or if they're even doing a particular lead singer search, but I'll send it in for giggles. We'll see what happens there.
I haven't worked on the book-I'm still stalling on Jon and Season's argument. Maybe now that AFA is over and we'll just be gigging from here on out and working on the new album, I'll get on that. I'm anxious to finish, so I can start bothering publishers. I did talk to a lady from the Arkansas Literary Festival over the weekend-she thought it was cool I was finishing a novel and thought it would be neat to present it one of these days-probably in about 80 years. No, hopefully not that long! Pretty soon I should have some pictures, or at least the one good one that we got, from the showcase to post here. I'm thinking about buying a digital camera with my birthday money then I'll have pictures everywhere! Oh, no!
// posted by LJo @ 1:38 PM 
