30s, 40s, 50s….jazz, swing….upbeat for dancing….. romantic and smoochy…we do it all!
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?! 😁
A good time was had by all at the Ridgewood Fun Day yesterday, not least by room 10! It was a great success, we even had people dancing outside in the sunshine! We were made very welcome there, and everyone said some very nice things, which is always great.
There were some recordings and videos done, we’re just checking if we can put them on here. Meanwhile, here are some pics of the day…
Our set list is sorted, out timings are right, we might even be together and in tune now and again(!), so we’re all ready for our outing on Saturday – all we need is an audience! We’d really appreciate some support, it should be a fab day out, the sun will be shining, the birds will be singing…and so will I!
So come along and meet Mark, Hazel, Dan, Helen, Ben, Ailsa, Joël, John and me, Pat!
That’s the Ridgewood Centre, 244 Station Road, Yate, BS37 4AF – be there or be really boring, doing nothing on a sunny Saturday afternoon!
We’ll be joining in the Fun Day in Ridgewood Community Centre, in Yate on Saturday 21st July! It starts at 11am, goes on till 3ish, but room 10 will be on at round about 2.30 for an hour or so – saving the best till last! We’ll be over near the Cupcake Cafe, you could sit with a cold drink while listening to us!
We’ll be doing all our dance numbers, if anyone wants to try their hand (feet?!) at swing dancing, but including some slower tunes too, for a relaxing summer’s afternoon.
So…put it straight in your diary – Saturday 21st, in the Ridgewood Centre, 244 Station Road, Yate, BS37 4AF. Looking forward to seeing you there!
Last night was our first public performance together, and it went great – people said some very kind things.
Here are some pics from the evening, you can see my face gets closer and closer in colour to my frock as the evening goes on…
Giving it welly in our rehearsal!.The band outside in the ‘cool’ garden area of the club, before we went on.
Joël, John, Dan and Helen, doing their thing.
Helen, Ailsa, Hazel and me, Pat. And Ben, on drums in the back – I’ll make sure to get a better pic of him next time!
I was an hour late to rehearsal tonight due to the motorway being closed, so it was a bit of a flying visit! Definitely well worth the journey though, they must’ve been working so hard before I arrived! I couldn’t not go, I just love singing with the room 10 band so much.
Everything is shaping up well after the recce some of us went on this week – at least we know we’ll fit on the stage! Well, most of us will anyway…..
John, our lovely new bassist, has decided to join us, so room 10 is complete! We had a full house of musicians last night, making a great big sound, not so much of the ‘little big band’ now……
With the set list for our first gig finalised, we’re now tweaking the balance of each number – it wouldn’t do if no one could hear Joel’s guitar solo, now would it?
John came along last night with his bass guitar, and showed us all up by sight reading all our prices rather better than we play them after having time to learn them! He says he enjoyed himself, and is coming along next week to meet, and play with the rest of the band – we were three down last night.
And what a difference he made to our sound – I’d have hardly believed it. Right from the first few bars of Tuxedo Junction, we sounded more complete, somehow. He’ll be a definite asset.
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