War of the Wilds - Part 2
+ Prequel.
No sleep till Wolverhampton; 10 days, 50 hours Recording and 2 gigs.
Hey welcome back to my weekly diary.
Last week i was just too busy to sit down and put pen to paper so I did a personal "Facebook Live" on Tuesday night.
For those that missed it, it was more a ramble once I had got home just before midnight.
So, what have we been up too?
Well we shot a Promo Video which can be found on our Official Wild Strays YouTube channel.
The Wild Strays, Official YouTube Channel.
This was a fun video to explain about our crowd funding and how it would work and what sort of Perks you could obtain on donating.
We had a total giggle shooting it, some parts had me in stitches. I believe it is going to stay live on my our channel, so feel free to head over and check it out.
I guarantee it will make you smile. Please feel free to Subscribe and follow content from us, as well as personal videos from Grace and Spice.
However I can say that the crowd funding is now over.
A huge personal thank you to each and every one of you that donated.
We, Wild Strays really appreciated everyone who got behind us and can’t wait to get the EP to you early.
We also learned last night that everyone that did Pre Order a copy will get a free physical copy as well. (Once these are produced) but you will be the first ones to get one which will also be signed.
I am also looking forward to meeting the people who are joining us in the future music video and the few that are coming to the private party.
But for a minute or two let’s take a look over our shoulder at the past week and slowly go over what has happened.
It seemed a long time ago now since we started our War of the Wilds back in Stafford, but last Thursday we did Part Two of the War.
This time it was at The Actress and Bishop in Birmingham.
Supporting Sour Bitch, Killer Bob, Kanada and our great friends Tinfish.
We decided to have a hour or two in the studio before heading over to the venue.
We all had the day off work so this seemed like a good idea to head down to Robannas for a cheeky run through the set.
Plus the venue really is only 10 minutes away from the studio.
We had Grace’s friend Tanya join us in rehearsals and she took some fantastic pictures throughout the afternoon and evening.
Below is some great shots of us rehearsing before the show.
Then it was time to head over to the venue.
We arrived at 5pm and we were the first ones there.
We introduced ourselves to the sound engineer and carried our gear up the stairs.
Tonight however we were not the opening act. We were on 3rd, and due to hit the stage at 8.45 pm
It was great because this meant we would have a slightly bigger crowd.
Our good friends Tinfish opened the night and all of us Wild Strays were down the front singing and dancing to their songs.
We have almost known this band a full year now and we have played lots of gigs with them.
I don’t shout out to many bands on my blog, but honestly check out Tinfish.
Just super lovely guys with catchy songs and I heard they are working on a album soon too.
Next up were Kanada and then it was our turn to take to this stage.
We opened with one of our new songs called Broken Glass and then into Beast Inside followed by our debut Single 9 Lives.
A few technical problems with my amp which I need to get serviced but a great show.
We then hit into the track “Own Personal Hell” and we got the crowd to join in with those four words
“This time it’s personal”
Its great fun doing this section in the song and hearing the crowd get involved. Plus this was the part where we find out who were the loudest crowd in the war.
Stafford or Birmingham ?
Who won the war ?
Well, Grace put up a great piece on Facebook concerning the answer to this.
But... if you were to ask me and I whisper this in your ear..
Stafford were slightly louder.
Anyway we carried on to the final track of the night. “The Wild Strays” and little did Jake know that earlier in the day both Grace and Spice had headed to Asda to have a Farewell leaving cake made up with Jake's face on it. As you may know Jake is leaving us to join the army and this was his penultimate gig with us.
(Grace told me the woman's face in Asda was funny. I mean Rumble Lord and there is no sign of his guitar lol. Still life is for smiling and having fun. I still would have liked to see her face though)
So in the break down of the song where we would normally give a shout out to the other bands on the bill.
Grace lead the charge and invited Jake to follow her across the room while still playing music.. to unveil the cake.
He totally didn’t expect it, but his smile said a thousand words.
The cake was shared with the whole room as we continued to watch the rest of the bands.
It was really nice to meet Nat from Killer Bob and to watch Sour Bitch. Plus a huge shout out to Adam Ward who it is always lovely to see and work with.
I had to go to work the following day so I took the gear home after the show while Grace ran everyone home. A fantastic night and the perfect run up to what would be 50 hours in the recording studio.
So much to talk about with the full working week Recording our Début Ep
But you’ll just have to wait till next week to hear all about it and the lead up to our "Escape the Studio" gig at The Giffard Arms in Wolverhampton.
Until then,
Keep up to date with us here on our website and of course social media, Facebook and Instagram.
Until next time.
Keep it Wild x
KT x