I’m really excited.
I have news. An announcement. A seismic shift in what I’ll be doing. Beating a new path even.
Yep. With a very special group of friends, I’ve decided to give up that day job and form a band. It’s going to be called Dragon Dreamers, or The Dragons for short. What else could it be ? Perhaps the Another Mondays :
Actually, I quite like Another Mondays now that I think of it.
I’m going to be on the drums.
Yep. That’s me. Oh and there’d be a mic there too. You know me, a catchy tune, a good rhythm, great atmosphere, I’ll be joining in the singing for sure, rumbling away in the background.
On guitar, we’ll have my very good friends Cyberkitten and the Bionicdwarf :
There’s CK as a youngster, practicing that lead guitar which will knock your socks off. Bionicdwarf is all about that bass. Great tunes. You’ll love it.
On keyboards and another of our main vocalists is the Pixie. She suffers terribly from joint pains, so can’t stand up for long (you must understand when we take our bows at the end of the set) but she’s a wizardess behind the ivories. Great voice too.
Lead vocals … now who could that be. We tried to call in Hannah from the Yogscast but she’s way too busy. Besides, we really don’t know her that well. Not well enough to pull her away from the videos. What a voice though. Any band would be well blessed to be playing along with her.
Nah. It’ll be the lovely Alex from the Warcraft people. I heard this lady singing on the guild voice chat server and it was so good, it got me joining in too. And I’m very shy about exposing people to my singing voice. And I can guarantee that it’ll have you joining in too.
That’s the main band. But there’s always room for more. How about that saxophone ? I bet Cupid’s Gift would be perfect. Not so much the blues, more a sheer joy that she’ll bring into your heart.
You can’t keep those backing singers out of the picture either. They support us in soo many ways.
First up has to be Crazie Queen. She keeps us on the right track. She’s our manager. The person who’ll protect us from the machinations of the industry. A legend amongst women.
Next is the original finance Angel. Great with the figures, fantastic with the high notes.
And our last performing member is the indomitable Snow Queen. She’ll also be the one who makes sure all our kit gets set up just so and with a practiced ear, tuned from listening to great music. We’d never keep her off the stage. Those heels she wears are not heels. They are shoes with spears. Not arguing with those !
There’s more too. I’ve known Bobkat* for years now. Decades even. She used to be involved in professional theatre, setting up the stage and making sure all the behind the scenes stuff ran smoothly. So while Snow Queen will have got the electronics set up perfect, BK will get everything else sorted and will be the one fussing over the bits and pieces to make sure they stay good during the show.
* (Bobkat took her online name from her much missed black and white cat. She lost him to old age a few years ago and he’s still missed but fondly remembered. So if you see the odd random picture of a lovely little kitty around the stage, that’ll be us remembering Bobkat by touching the picture for good luck on our way on stage.)
You need people to get your bits and pieces to where they need to be – I just happen to know a lady who is an absolute expert in logistics. And we have an expert marketing coordinator in Dianne, the Fork Lady, who will be sure to have us front page news in the USA when we tour there.
Can you tell yet that I’m excited ?
We could even try and get Real Musgrave (creator of the Pocket Dragons) out of retirement to make us some new dwagons !
Who are our influences ? Sleeper for sure. A little bit of Alisha’s Attic. Definitely the Cardigans. Alex brings in those Abba roots.
We won’t have anything for you to listen to just yet. But wait precisely 1 year from today (exactly this date in 2016) and we’ll have an album out and we’ll be embarking on that first tour.
Keep a look out for us ! We will rock you.