Gigs!!

After a considerable amount of time away from social media we've been focusing on live performance in order to be fully prepared for a busy upcoming schedule , weeks of practice have payed off as we now have managed to complete our 45 minute set which will be played at numerous venues around the midlands in the next few months or so.
Gigs kick start this Friday at Newhampton arts centre in Wolverhampton where we will be performing with four other live bands, the following night we are then straight back at it with a gig supporting great local band Two 'N' Eights both night are set to be full of great live music and a lively audience. Later dates have also been arranged such as the 5th of July we are at the O2 academy 3 in Birmingham and to finalise our latest gig line up we finish on the 19th headlining the sunflower lounge before we then begin work for summer festivals. If there is anyone who would like to come to any of the gigs be in touch!! Below is a picture to just give you a bit of an insight into the dramas that occur in practice... Hence the broken guitar!!

From The Jam Gig

Last night we played our first gig as a four piece supporting 'From The Jam' at the Robin 2 in Bilston. the night flowed well having arrived on time at half 6 to complete our sound check and enable ourselves to spend a little time backstage. Once again we would like to say a big thank you to both Carl Windsor and Toby Fletcher for the backline support and music knowledge they shared with us. Being the first of two support acts which were playing on the night we still however managed to play to a crowd of around about 200 , we believe that our music fitted the bill very well on the night and went down a treat with the crowd there , although the second support act had a genre of music which wasn't best suited to the audience there they also put on a very good show. in the next coming weeks having established our set our main objective is too begin to push through with as many gigs as possible.

Line-up complete

Last Friday night we played our set in full for the first time, we got some great feedback but also some constructive criticism.An often occurring subject was the lack of depth in our music without a bass player. This week we decided to put an end to this controversy and finally insert bass into our music, our lead singer Mikey has challenged himself to learn bass. This week we also hit over a 1000 page views on our blog and continue to gain more followers on our Twitter https://twitter.com/TheAssistBand

A Progressive Week

It's been a week full of progression for us as we reach the end of our first month. Firstly we've been rehearsing hard and have finalised our live set, the set consists of 7 original songs and lasts around 20 minutes. Our set will be played live in full for the first time tonight at woody's music bar in Cannock/Hednesford, it's for a Battle of the Bands competition so it should be a great experience. Our blog has also had some changes as we continue to improve the layout and look, the most notable change is the new picture page. Finally we have created a twitter account where you can follow our progress at https://twitter.com/TheAssistBand

Our First Live Performance

It was all very last minute as we turned up at Bloxwich Library for their Open mic night, they had an amazing set up with PA system ,stage and full drum kit so this was a great opportunity for our first performance. We got threw in at the deep end and went on stage first. We were all nervous but everything went perfectly, we played two songs Be who you want to me and The Stories. We couldn't of asked for a better response as the organisers of the event asked us if we'd headline a future show!!. A big thanks to Bookmark Bloxwich for this opportunity!

New Video Blog

Haven't posted in a while as we've been working away at our introduction video. You can find the video at the link posted above, it's got some samples of our tracks and gives you an insight into who we are. We also recently hit over 500 views and would like to thank everyone who's followed our progress so far!!!

The Assist

Naming our Band

Naming a Band can be the most challenging part, a great name is vital. Our first idea was to take inspiration from the Arctic Monkeys and have an animal in the name, this lead us to Otter Freckle. We liked this for a few weeks then realised it wasn't for us, after reading many articles on choosing a band name we decided to take inspiration from a song name; we came up with Tumbling Dice (Rolling Stones) but then realised there were a few 60's cover bands with this name. Our next step was to stop over thinking the name. last week when in the studio we got a lot of reverb off the PA system and thought we'd came across a great name, after a quick internet search we realised every other band seemed to be called The Reverbs. We then decided our band name needed to mean a bit more to us so we decided to reflect football in our band name. Our first idea was The Deficit, but we figured it could be easily misspelt. Our latest idea is The Assist. We're still putting thought into our band name and want to make sure we get it right, any feedback would be appreciated.