Gloucester Moves project meets Musiclab
Back in September I invited local musicians to participate in a community music project where I would be present every Tuesday (except when doing the sound for Musiclab every month). I posted the results of Mishak’s freestyle rap a few weeks ago (scroll down to listen).
This week I did sound for Musiclab. Musiclab is the Guildhall’s open mic night. It takes place every month and has been going for ages - longer than Wired in fact.
There’s a bunch of musical people that come every month. This month Tom Browning from the Forest turned up and played some of his songs as did James Watson with his classical guitar and twins Phil and Charlie Campbell, (pianist and guitarist respectively) brought along Shanice to wow everyone with her vocals.
This week I sat there hatching a plan. I’ve booked the Guildhall cinema for March 2010 and I’m going to search for suitable original songs written by local musicians that can be recorded as demos and circulated amongst a bunch of musicians I’ve been talking with. We’ll have some chats together and jam a bit before meeting together in March to rehearse together in the cinema using the Guildhall’s soundkit and record it to see what we come up with.
This morning I met with Phil Campbell to discuss ideas and share my idea with him. He’s up for it and we’re going to work together on getting his song ready for the group. I’ve also asked Tom, hopefully he’ll give us permission to use one of his songs and participate himself. Then I’m going to challenge Dan to write a Gloucester song over Christmas for the project.
Whilst I’m here check out the Wired blog at http://wiredgloucester.tumblr.com

