The return, again
I've sort of lost count of how many times we've got back together to make music. I've been in YANU for longer than any other band I've played in but, because we're all busy with real lives, we never seem to get a good run at it. But that's too sombre for what is really a joyous occasion! We've had 3 practices in the past month or so (which is probably some kind of record) and started work on 3 new songs (and polished an old favourite up a bit) and it looks like we've got a gig lined up in June (24th, at the Cooler, supporting the other band I play in) so things are going good so far.
The big news is that the excellent and lovely Ben has moved on to Birmingham (educating the kids of the midlands in the ways of righteousness). So now our low end is being provided by one John James Brooke (Jim to his friends) putting a very lovely Ibanez Jet King through a synth into a sweet Ampeg combo.
One thing that's interesting is how the internet has changed things for bands since we started out. We're all fairly tech saavy and watch what's going on with music technologies as time passes. We had stuff up on our My Space page as soon as we had it recorded, but we never really did much with it and it seems really passe nowadays. Uphills have an EP out on iTunes and Amazon and we've actually made a little bit of money off it. SoundCloud and Bandcamp have really changed things, too, and I think in the future I'd self release stuff through them, since I don't think Amazon/iTunes actually increased our market (basically everyone who bought our EP were our friends. Ideally I'd like to release things on vinyl with a download code, my favourite "format", but that might be prohibitively expensive for a while...