I met with Annette yesterday to discuss putting together a band for my performance. I'm keen to have all the personnel be within easy travelling distance of a rehearsal location, with the college being the ideal place. However most of my previous contacts come from the Glasgow area, and it is unlikely I would be able to get a full band from them which could potentially leave me with my personnel divided between those contacts and people within the college which could make things awkward. I felt the best solution therefore would be to have the band comprise solely students or teachers within the college, a solution Annette agreed would be best. Being new to the college I'm not altogether too familiar with the students from other courses so Annette did me the favour of sending out an email message to all students explaining the nature of my set and asking anyone interested to get in touch.

I have had two replies thus far; one was from a bass player named David who I met with today and seems very willing to take part in the project. We discussed the set which he is happy with and some of the aspects of learning our parts. I am pleased with this as I'd expected finding a bass player to be the toughest part. The other was from a guitarist named Becky who inquired as to what songs would be played. I've given a list of the songs I've chosen so far to both and asked them to let me know what they think. We have plenty time before the first performance so there's no rush.

This leaves me now needing possibly another guitarist and a keyboardist. Annette mentioned that one of the tutors may be prepared to play keys, and it's only a couple of songs they will be featured on so this could be a viable option. It would mean me finding sheet music for the parts for them which could be tough but I will start looking into it.