Exciting Rehearsal Update.

We've had a couple more rehearsals. The first involved Charlie, Ian, Tod and Dave, and was a fairly productive couple of hours brushing up some of the new tracks.

The last rehearsal was unusual in that Charlie, Ian, Dave, Tod, John, Dan and Jack all knew that there wasn't one.

Someone forgot to tell Mindy, though, who bravely struggled out to Shed 3b, only to find it in darkness. One phone call to Tod Bonnington, who had just reached base camp without oxygen in some faraway mountain range, established that she was in for a lonely evening. Apparently she made the most of the opportunity and headed down the pub instead.

Seen on National Television

Just for a change, it's not one the Old Gits themselves, but one of our most loyal fans - in fact, it's one of the Lovely Louche Ladies of West Meon!
Look out at 27 mins 56 seconds of this documentary. There's an awful lot of adverts and stuff, but the documentary itself is interesting, and the Lady herself does, indeed, look lovely.
It might be available for only a limited time, so hurry up.

Seen in the Press - again

Two more examples of the Thomas Lord Old Gits clogging up the national press - one from The Times (above), and the other from Farmers Weekly .

Monday's rehearsal

We had an interesting gathering on Monday. Dave and John and Ian were missing, but we said a big 'Hello' to Jack, who might or might not be our stand-in drummer for the summer. He ticks all the right boxes, inasmuch as he seems to know which bit of the drum kit to hit at which time, and has only one syllable in his name. Anyway, he stayed for the evening, and we await with interest if he'd like to come back!

The other highlight of the evening was the arrival of Hinton Ampner's vagrant/almost unemployed city boy aka Capt Kidneystones, who grabbed the offered microphone and proceeded to do the 'Shoop Shoop' song backing vocals - to everything. Close your eyes and it could almost have been Cher herself. Almost.

Meanwhile, here's the drummer at the wrong gig video.

Stand-in drummer suggestion

It appears that Ian might not be available for a few gigs this year - luckily, this lot have offered their drummer.

The 2013 Tour Kicks Off!

Well, we still haven't decided what to call the 2013 Tour, but it got going on the 5th January at the lovely Privett Village Hall. As is normal these days, we had to fight our space with several acres of playgroup equipment (remember Bramdean a few years ago?), and we spilled off the small stage onto the main floor.

Here we see Tod looking aprehensively at the gathering throng.





He need not have been apprehensive - at least, not about the throng. There was a slight technical issue with Dan's amp - basically, it appeared to be buggered, which meant he had to drive off home and fetch another one. But not before a mass of Hampshire's finest minds had all had a go at mending it:

But while Dan was away, we thought we'd better get on - before a riot broke out, possible the first in Privett in several centuries. The lights went down, the songs started, and the floor seemed to fill, and it stayed that way for three hours. We thought we played very well, despite the lay-off and lack of rehearsal. Several band members still had half a foot in the Land of Phlegm, and would like to apologise for not being able to differentiate between black notes and white notes.

Still, it was a good start to the year. The gigs are beginning to come in now (two on April, one in May?) - all we need are some firm dates and a witty and amusing name for it.