A catch up

So we've just hit the start of Feb and our first proper, proper gig is this Wednesday in our home town of Leeds. I made this flyer on MS Paint (my first one!).

So far quite a lot has happened. This is how it all begun...

Tim and James' old band, Nikoli, called it a day in Summer '06.

Neither of them were enjoying the direction that the band was heading however Tim carried on writing and Jim carried on drumming with him.

I (Chris) was at an end with my old band, LaRusso, in September '06. The band had been together since I was a kid and we'd all grown in different directions musically.

I'd known Tim for a while after reviewing his old band and I'd bumped into him at various gigs such as Low and Broken Social Scene.

With Tim, James and I sharing a strong liking for good music (especially the Americana, post-rock, Canadian indie stuff) the three of us decided to start working on Tim's "darker" material.

Toby came on the scene about three or four weeks later. He'd previously spoken to Tim when applying to be the bass player in Nikoli. However they'd never actually managed to meet up.

So, after a couple of phone calls and emails, Tim and I went to meet Toby in The Packhorse pub in Leeds city centre, Oct '06. Tim liked Toby's love of The Smiths. I liked Toby's fondness for Bloc Party and all things jazzy.

So far we've spent about three months practising and we've recorded two songs in the process - Oblige and Decimal Places. The drums and bass were done at Pravda, Leeds. The guitars and vocals were done at Tim's house in Morley (have you ever tried soundproofing a lounge using two sofas?!?). The mixing was done in his spare room.

We've set up this Myspace www.myspace.com/iconcurband and this website www.iconcur.co.uk. You can get the tunes from either of those places.

We've got a set of about 5 or 6 songs at the moment. We gigged these at The Packhorse (the one by the Uni) on Monday 15th January in front of a crowd of about 40 mates. The wonderul Peter Wright and Peasman (aka Tom Evans) did acoustic sets to keep people entertained before we came on to spoil it all. Thankfully most people didn't seem to mind. I think some of them even liked what we did.

So that's about it for now. We've got a practice tonight so, unless anything crazy happens, we'll post something back after the gig.