Monday morning. Coffee, toast, forgot to put the rubbish out again.
I handed in my notice for my part-time guitar technician job last week. I am now wearing the label ‘full time musician’ or perhaps ‘composer’. I am working on a few exciting projects at the moment, but I can’t tell you about them yet…
One thing I can tell you about is my album. There’s not much to tell except that hopefully I get some time to record it soon! So busy lately. The songs are all written, I have picked out which guest musicians I will be having along. Different ones for each song just to keep things interesting, except drums which will all be played by Tory from my old band. He is about to take off to Australia and Europe on tour with an awesome NZ band called Battle Circus (one of my favorites), but when he gets back I’ll be dragging him into the studio. All going well the album will be released through indie label BDM (Black Doris Music).
I have an acoustic gig coming up next Sunday, my first solo performance ever. Well, not including those awful piano competitions I used to have to play in growing up. Yikes! I will be playing keys live for the first time in 10 years. Playing a few originals, a few covers, and even going to play some Rachmaninov just because I’ve gone to the effort of learning it so I may as well perform it. If you’re in Auckland come along 6pm The Crib in Ponsonby – 151 Ponsonby road, Sunday 28th September.
Ok, coffee is gone, thats it from me this morning. 
K.
Looking forward to the gig!
Hey Kristie. I’m recording an album right now too.
Good luck with your projects. I’m sure it will work out well for you, you seem to have the passion for what you are doing.
What’s the music scene like over your way. Maybe I can come over to play some gigs some time. I too have not performed my solo material live before. I always had a band to fall back on in the past!
All the best.
Rob
Sorry about the late reply! I think I must have done something daft as I don’t get emailed about new comments since I changed my site over. Hmmmm.
The music scene in NZ isn’t great for local muso’s but it’s getting better all the time. I’m not sure how it would be for someone coming in from over seas, could be better as you’d be a bit more of a novelty, or could be worse if you don’t have a local following. I’m really not sure. Haha not really giving the hard sell am I. A summer tour of NZ would be a really fun thing to do though. Not sure if you’d make much money out of it but you’d definitely have a great time