Left At The Lights Strategy Meeting 01-03-05

PRACTICES
Ideally, we should plan to practise twice a week as default position
Tuesday evenings at Bob’s or Marcus’, and a 3hour slot on a weekday in the studio at UWE. Marcus will speak to Bill Braddick about this, once Frank has talked to BBS about his timetable for next session.

We need a band diary for holiday planning etc.

Bob has a DJ mixer – need to explore then functionality, but might be a useful piece of kit for us

Planning What We Do In Practices
We should aim to cover a third of the list every practice, with most effort on the songs that need “Even More” work

SONGS NEEDING A LITTLE WORK(SET LIST/CD CONTENDERS)
Memory Lawn
Lazy
Wine Gum Kid
Standing Underneath The Moon
Grockle Song
Winter

SONGS NEEDING LOTS OF WORK
Hoping For The Day
Spring Fever
Retinal Detachment
Melancholy
Autumn Song
Downtown Somewhere
Where Have You?
Stained Glass Rain
Icarus

SONGS NEEDING EVEN MORE WORK
Compass Rose
Vinegar
Moving On
Power Cut
Floods At Lyons
Time, Words and You
Salt In The Wound

SONGS TO BE DEVELOPED!
Philadelphia
Star Struck In The Moonlight (prestidigitation, indeed!)
Chess Song


PLAYING LIVE
We should practice playing standing in a line (i.e. not looking at each other)
Need to address:-
Order of songs
Patter between songs
Stage discipline
Coping with disasters (e.g. broken strings)
Arrange Open Mic nights
Gigs
Live arrangements vs recorded arrangements

CD
Contents
5/6 tracks for promotional/selling CD:-
Memory Lawn
Winter
Moving ON
Hoping For The Day
Where Have You (Soup)?
Lazy

Arrangements for CD
Sequencing only if it emerges “organically”
Recording production advice – Marcus to discuss with Stephen Allan

Practise using click tracks

Tempos
Need to decide

Sheet for every song
With settings for bass/mandolin/guitar/amps/key/tempo/arrangement. Need a proforma

Artwork
Do it ourselves, take our own photographs etc.