Rock On!

So, Everyone, last night I officially did a "concert" at a place in Jerusalem called The Jamm. It's a pretty chilled out coffeeshop/hangout place that usually has open mic nights or smaller bands come in.

It was kind of the first time I performed as a 'frontman' (or woman really, what's the PC way of saying that) of a band - a band that's not really a band at all. It was the first - and probably last - time all 3 of us will play together - Austin, a volunteer here from Texas who is leaving in a week, played guitar and sang backup and of course longtime fave drummer, Joel "the madman" Hilsden joined us.

So I did about 8 originals and 4 cover songs - mostly obscure or really old cover songs that people would have never heard of anyway - even threw in a Collective Soul song "The World I Know" because it mentions New York City, oh and a random band called Plumb has a great melo-dramatic ballad called "Cut" which I love because of the piano part.

Anyway, I think it all flowed pretty well depsite the fact that all 3 of us never practiced at the same time. I got to sit with Austin 2 times and teach him my songs - and I saw Joel about 2 hours before the show and showed him some stuff...

It's very different to hear your own songs being played band-style. I'm always writing/singing by myself at the piano and have thought through some ideas of what it could possibly sound like, but you never really can tell. All of a sudden my cutesey little song "Fly" which I have recorded on CD with just me and piano, turned into this Evanesence-y type song that gets pretty heavy at the end with the drums and stuff...Hmmm. Pretty exciting.


SO a LARGE thank you to all my friends who came out to watch and hopefully enjoy the show! You guys are COOL and maybe there'll be more....