30s, 40s, 50s….jazz, swing….upbeat for dancing….. romantic and smoochy…we do it all!
Ben had to leave us because of his new job, but as our new drummer, Simon, has commitments this weekend, lovely Ben has stepped back into the breach to help us out at our gig this Saturday – good man!
So we had an extra rehearsal last night, just to familiarise ourselves with all the music again – and all the tweaks and changes we’d made. It was all a bit strange and daunting at first, but soon we all just swung back into our usual style! No probs!
How exciting! It should be a good do, with such a great audience…I hope they all bring their dancing shoes….!
Room 10 is complete again. With Simon the drummer agreeing to join us, and Adam the pianist a couple of weeks ago, we’re now getting the sound we’d hoped for back in 2017, when we started it all off…such a big band sound, just brilliant!
Getting ready for our next gig, it’s a pretty steep learning curve for our new players…
Here are the details of the gig, if you’d like tickets contact any of the band, or use the contact form on this site.
PS It’s in Filton Golf Club…I forgot to say!
We have a keyboard player, at last! Adam came along last night and fitted in really well – it was so nice to hear those piano parts we’d not heard for about a year, since lovely Emma left us…like all those twiddly bits in ‘The Way you Look Tonight’!
Our next gig is just in a few short weeks, so lots of work to do before then….
We had our room 10 Christmas dinner last night, and presented Joël with a goodbye gift – Ailsa made a little souvenir version of our music stand banners. Cute!
No meet ups till after New Year now, so Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from room 10! Keep dancing!
Phil has joined us, after a few rehearsals, so when Jöel heads back to France we’ll be ok. Phew! We’d hoped a pianist/keyboard player would come along tonight, but for various reasons he couldn’t….but watch this space!
Lots of work to be done before our next gig, it’s just as well it’s not till the New Year!
Well, we’ve had rather more interest in our Gumtree ad than we’d expected, such a nice surprise! We’ve started sorting through them, and a keyboard player come along to join our rehearsal last night….unfortunately it wasn’t a mutual love affair, so we’re still looking!
A guitarist is coming along next week, so hopefully it’ll be a better match…
Sadly, Joël, our lovely guitarist, is heading home back to France, so we’re on the hunt again.
Looking for either a guitarist or keyboard player…or maybe both! An ad has been placed on Gumtree, but if anyone reading this knows any potential musicians…or fancies a go themselves….contact us right away!
Great rehearsal tonight, and we’re looking good too (even though I say it myself!) thanks to Ailsa’s talented work – Alisa, you’re a star!
So…we’re all ready for our next gig, a party in the Ridgewood Centre on Saturday 20th of October, but what we really need are a few video clips of our performance. It’s a bit of a chicken and egg situation with the website; we need something to encourage people to book us, so we’d like someone to do a video – but we can’t afford to pay much, as we haven’t had much work yet!
So if any of you kind, talented people (and having a ‘good eye’ is rather more important than having fantastic kit) could lend a hand on that night, we’d be eternally grateful! There’s a few pints in it, and either a lift there or travel expenses.
Go on…it’ll be a laugh….!
A year ago today we had our first rehearsal – what a long way we’ve come since then! Lots of changes in personnel, only four of us remain from our original line up. But we worked (and played!) through our problems, and emerged stronger and more together, and we’re going from strength to strength!
Three more gigs were planned tonight, which is pretty exciting!
We celebrated our first birthday with cake and fizz….
Maybe next year we’ll have crystal glasses…cheers!
‘Somebody’ couldn’t wait till we took a pic….are those your teeth marks, Dan?! 😁
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