It's not what you know...

As of 20 minutes ago I have set up some more work for myself.
A friend has asked me put together a 45 minute set with her for a gig in Fenbruary, Her singing and me playing acoustic guitar and doing backing vocals. We have arranged a meeting/jam at her place on Wednesday night to discuss songs to work, I am rather excited about this whole operation as I have only played acoustic at jam nights before, not an actual set.
Also, through the connections I have, I am now in touch with someone who is setting up a new record label in his studio in Derby and is looking for available session players. More on this to follow as I am expecting an email through tommorrow.
I also have another job.
The drummer in The Valley has his own band who play strictly original material and they want a new guitarist. They will be recording a new 10 track album next month and they have asked me to come down and record some lead guitar parts on the tracks then potentialy in May join them for live gigs to play the new material.
Oh yes the ball is certainly rolling for me.

Live and Gigging

I have a second band placement.
I am the guitarist for The Valley. A four piece outfit consisting of Drums, Bass, Guitar and Vocals, a new to the scene but quickly cathcing up with the game Femal Vocalist. Based in Ripley, Derbyshire, slowly but surely accquiring gigs left right and centre and making a good name for ourselves.
I am the only guitarist and aswell as play I have been responsible for learning and workingout/transcribing all the songs we do and I have a large creative input ionto how we perform them, Taking covers of songs & making them our own, getting that balance of a bit of the old slotted into the new.
We have performed once this year, it was on the second of January at the Generous Britain in Ripley.
We played two 45 minute sets and started at 6:30pm. It was a busy night with good support and we are sure everyone went home with smiles on their faces, a good time was had by all.

Our two sets were:

Set 1:
Maria-Blondie
Sound of the Underground-Girls Aloud(our punky metal version)
Who Knew-Pink
Johnny B Goode-Chuck Berry
Hard Days Night-Beatles
Rockin' In The Free World-G3
Honky Tonk Woman-Rolling Stones
Bad Moon Rising-Creedance Clearwater Revival
One Way Or another-Blondie
House Of The Rising Sun-Animals

Set 2:
Loose Control-A Nick, Mick nd Stu Instrumental
Teenage Kicks-Undertones
Molly's Chambers-Kings Of Leon
Brown Eyed Girl-Van Morrison
Zombie-Cranberries
Hedonism-Skunk Anansie
Black Velvet-Allanah Myles
Stuck In The Middle-Steelers Wheel(punked up)
Since You've Been Gone-Kelly Clarkson
In Demand-Texas
Stand By You-Pretenders
Don't Stop-Fleetwood Mac
Mustang Sally-Commitments(Valleys personal Jam version)

We are practicing again this weekend and I have been given 5 new tracks to transcribe and learn.
They Are:
Proud Mary-Ike & Tina Turner
I'm Not Dead-Pink
White Wedding-Billy Idol
Wishing Well-Free
Beer-Reel Big Fish

I have transcribed up to Wishing Well and will have them learnt by practice on sunday.
Awesome.

I will attempt to upload videos of the band performing later for you all to sink your teeth into.