No-one said it was going to be easy. This is the ongoing story of The Disco Students - from Aylesbury 1978 to today, now. www.myspace.com/2006discostudents

Sunday, August 29, 2004

A good performance at The Old Ale House, Salisbury . So good ,
the local newspaper The Salisbury Echo thought we were "not bad" - hey, hey !
The gig saw the debut of the sampler , which worked well.
We've taken the editing scissors to the set, cutting off the fleshy bits - we're now left with a tight, no-nonsense collection of songs - and we're about to add a couple of new compositions.
"Mark E. Smith's Dead" and "My Favourite Slit" could well make into the set for our next run of dates.
Another thing we're looking at is arranging a performance in Aylesbury - I'm visiting a couple of venues this week to see if it's feasible.
This coming Thursday we're at The Marquee in Hertford .

Wednesday, August 11, 2004

It's not only the football season that begins this week - The Disco Students commence a new season, having rested for a couple of months. We play tomorrow night at The Old Ale House in Salisbury - and the performance sees the debut of the sampler - just a couple of decades behind everyone else, we tip our toes into the technological waters.
Morale is high in the DS camp, we have three dates confirmed before our trip to New York, and there's talk of some kind of link up with Lauren Harries. For those who are unaware, Lauren was once James, the precocious antiques "expert" who , briefly in the late 80's and early 90's amazed TV viewers ( me included) with his , well, I don't know quite what.
Predictably, he had a sex-change operation and is now Lauren. The Disco Students have taken the liberty of using her image on our new posters - and we have contacted her to see if she'd be up for a touch of multi-media cross pollenation - you know the kind of thing. We'll see.

Tuesday, August 03, 2004

I've been listening to The Idiot by Iggy Pop - almost non stop for a week. Why? Who knows?
Once, when I lived in my first flat - I awoke one morning and just HAD to have some milk.
I walked bloody miles to buy a carton, and drank it down greedily. Something to do with the body telling the brain it was lacking in calcium ( so a friend told me - sounds reasonable).
Perhaps, my "The Idiot" phase is in a similar envelope. I used to play it a lot when I was 19 - maybe I just like to think I'm 19 again. Nothing wrong with that I suppose.
Well, we're nearing the end of our Summer rest - and we're ready for a new musical season.
I've got a feeling we've got something up our sleeves.