Strangers With Guns History (Origins) Chapter 1

 Chapter 1 (Backstory)

Have been in bands over the years, most of the time as the driving force, my experience pre SWG was so bad it actually put me off bands for some years. I'd book jams and pay for them and be the only one who showed up, or they would show and we'd get one run through, actually booking jam rooms in itself was just a response to when we planned practice out my dads back in the shed, people would plain no show after I walked from my mams house to his, lugging gear and then I'd set up and the texts about not coming would roll in, it bothered my da cause I was putting a lot in and asking if we could jam and then nobody would show, booking jams puts more an owness on showing up I felt. I'd be booking these 40/50 quid jam rooms with maybe 100 quid in my bank account. The band ended after maybe 7 gigs, one lively headline gig where the band before us blew out my amp and i played the gig clean because only thing that worked, always under rehearsed gigs, amateurs like to see things like "Well I wont mess up my part" this is something I do somewhat believe myself though, but having been in a band with ricky I do know that some people dont practice unless everyone is there and practicing, we did mostly covers because our singer insisted on writing the melody and lyrics but never would, he wrote lyrics to 3 and we had to keep playing them and had 4 on the shelf. But anyways, that experience soured me and burnt me out for a few years. Some trivia, last song I wrote for that band was "Lies Of Omission" I remember feeling like my song writing had gone up a notch and like I was really onto something, but then that was that.

We recorded these songs, 3 of em anyway at some farmhouse, I organised it and picked up the tab....becomes a reoccurring theme, we had one gig in August and there was a bit of a lull but then in September, our drummer and good friend of mine drowned. The whole band experience was so bad, so relentlessly bad and topped of with this that I had no interest in doing it again.