Rehearsals

I'm rehearsing for the live show as we speak. There are in total 6 rehearsals planned, 1 per week, 1 has already been done. After that it's straight to London for gigs.

Up until now I haven't played live with the project; we've been working on the tracks in the studio with live work in mind. Now the time has come to take this show out on the road!! I'm so excited and very lucky to have a bunch of incredibly talented musicians playing for me, Nick Leigh (Guitar), Chris 'Swanny' Swan (Bass), Ben 'Benny K' Kennedy (Drums), Roxanne 'Roxy' Johns (Piano).

Here's the schedule:

Pre-rehearsal - Musician meets/greets and song introductions - sat 10 april
Rhrsl 1 - Run through tracks - tue 20 april
2 - Have all instrument parts nailed - thurs 29 april
3 - Have all backing vocal parts nailed ready to tell label backing
track revisions
4 - Dress rehearsal + Revised backing tracks run through
5 - Dress rehearsal 2 + Tweaks
6 - Get label down to OK it then gigs

It's all live but I wanted to play with backing tracks as an artistic statement. This is a pop act not a 'band'. Think 90's pop star. Things left on the backing tracks are strings, some effects (backwards vocals), pad sounds, just things to help it sound a little more polished and 'expensive'.

I've put some videos up from week 1 rehearsal on http://www.youtube.com/jackmajiktv - Pretty grim quality, next week I'll be prepared with a HD cam.

Can't wait. Lots of work to do over 6weeks especially with the visuals and styling but well up for it. Will post updates as we go to show sneak peak visuals. It's gonna be inspiring! I want it so that when you look up on stage you're not looking at 5 musicians playing some songs, you're looking at a world. A world of freedom and fantasy that the real world should be like, where anyone can do anything, anyone can say anything, if you want to wear a teapot on your face while walking your dog GO FOR IT! No rules, no limitations, just your mind.