Wow! it"s been so long since I last posted on here. I have been busy selling on EBay which went well at first when I started in July (about the same time I wrote my last post) but has gone a bit quite of late so I"m back here.
First Creepy Cool has been going well. We actually applied for a competition ages ago called LincX Factor - nothing to do with the Simon Cowel one -. Over 80 singers & bands applied, 20 made it to the heats and guess what Creepy Cool was one of them. We didn"t know we were in until our name appeared in the Target paper. Anyway, the first of two heats was yesterday (Wed \night) which we were on. Out of 10 acts only 2 could go through so it was nothing like the real X Factor. After several evenings of intense band practise, we were as ready as we ever could be. (Brian, after a period of absence from the band came back in on bass guitar.) and got to the rugby club in the princess Anne sport complex. The sound check was starting at 6.30pm instead of 7pm the original planned time Luckily, it wasn"t too difficult to find as it was still light when we got there but Brian was nowhere to be seen - he had all our equipment in his wife"s car. His mobile was turned off so we assumed they were lost. They finally rolled in at 7pm - the original time - unpacked the car but near disaster struck, he"d forgot his bass guitar. So we went in the venue and managed to stall our sound check while Brian went all the way back to Swineshead to pick it up and got back just in time. We played one song straight after the break so we could set up the equipment. The song we played seemed to go down realy well - the audience clapped and cheered. All of the other performers sang to a backing karaoke track although the standard was pretty high. We were the only band there. In the end though, we didn"t get through. We were later told that there was only one band in each heat because of the time needed to set up. The second heat is on Fri night. All in all though it was well worth entering and the hosts treated us well - even filming the video for us which will appear on YouTube & Moko mobi soon.
