GROWING UP.

Sounds strange doesn't it? A thirty odd year old saying things like, 'growing up', in the present tense. For those who aren't in touch via facebook, my last post sparked off a massive undertaking for me. I decided to start up a new once monthly event for original music and spoken word. We visited the landlord of our local (the pub we go to on the rare occasions we go out) and he was more than happy to give us his upstairs room to use AND we can do it up how we want it. BONUS.

I have spent the last week setting up a facebook page, a new blog, leaving adds on various forums looking for bands and contacting artists directly, in an effort to attract quality attention to the gig. Unfortunately I can't pay bands, but I'm hoping to create such a nice, appreciative, open atmosphere, with people in it, that the performers will be happy to travel to play there and get themselves exposure, and sell some CD's.. and there will be a bucket for donations from the audience at the end. You can follow THE MEDICINE SESSIONS if you like.

Anyway, doing all this has sparked off loads of positive things in my own persona. I have managed to completely obliterate all my past cynicism, I realise now that I was merely projecting my own frustrations so that I didn't have to look at myself. I have completely lost my need to smoke, I haven't touched one since before Christmas and don't even miss it. I have completely lost my appetite, or at least the need to eat food as a sort of comfort to my shitty feelings. My brain feels renewed, I feel confident and driven... of course I still get momentary lapses of self doubt, but I'm managing to keep it at bay.

With all this change I've been contemplating the future of The Watercats (as a band, not our relationship!) I've come to the conclusion that I think maybe "The Watercats" as a name has run it's course. It came about in a drunken kitchen evening, before we had even played live anywhere, before we had proved to ourselves we could do it. I was still learning the guitar, nothing was taken seriously. Over the last while I've always had it in my head that 'The Watercats' need to be a happy-go-lucky sounding band, that's what the name implies and where the name was born from, but we've moved on from that now. I would like to incorporate more of my poems (by their nature darker and more serious) into our sets, but feel like the name and the material just don't go.

So, it's a possible name change time. In reality, we haven't achieved an awful lot musically under The Watercats name and those that we have, have been fairly local affairs. We will probably keep The Watercats as a local name, but I will feel more confident asking for gigs elsewhere with a more grown-up title, which better reflects how we sound now. We thought, what better name for a band, than our own.

BATTESON IND

A nod to Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, Chaz and Dave, Pinky and Perky, etc....

what do you reckon?