Progress...

Well, we've had 3 gigs now in 3 months since changing our name to Fragile Creatures... or rather adopting the name Fragile Creatures for the band; I didn't stop being Adam Kidd. Our latest show, last Friday (29th July) at the Green Door Store, was really great!! My friends Foxes! had asked us to open up for their first show in Brighton since November last year. I was at a birthday meal with Adam, Alan and Matt from Foxes! when they told me about the show. They'd said they had a gig coming up at the Green Door and they needed one more band to complete the line-up:- I umm'd and ahh'd about it, as we're concentrating on recording at the moment, particularly as we're still between drummers. The next thing I heard about it I was invited to the gig through facebook and we were already on the bill!!

We were totally blown away by how many people came to see us, especially as we were on at 8pm... and everyone seemed to enjoy the show, particularily the newer songs we played in the second half of the set. When I got home there were several e-mail requests through our reverbnation page to upload some songs for people to listen to. I'm going to have to resist the strong temptation to share at the moment, as what we're cooking up in the studio is too good to go out as 'work in progress'!

We played new song 'The Chemicals' for the first time as a band (I actually performed it with Billy, whose playing cahon for us, at an open mic night the evening before as a warm-up!) and it fit in really well. I've written a number of reggae influenced numbers before, but this one seems different, it's got a pretty unique feel... if I slwo the main riff down a little it could form a basis for a Buena Vista Social Club style lating groove. Aaron and I stumbled over each other explaining what the song was about, he said, 'it's about drugs ladies and gentlemen' and I countered with, 'caffeine'! When I wrote the first lyrics for the chorus, 'the chemicals/ they rot your brain and they drive you wild/ they're everywhere I seem to turn/ I want them all,' I was actually thinking about more than just Class A party drugs. I was thinking about all the tiny little addictions to things like nicotine, sugary drinks, people who have to pop endless painkillers; and how these little chemical interactions drive our lives.

The verses though do tell a story, loosely based on something that did happen to me, about drugs and parties and memory:- although really I feel I'm saying that love is the drug, or rather drugs are a love substitute, taking one to lower your inhibitions to make it easier to find a lover or taking abother to forget a lover you've lost. It's a familiar story.

Anyhoo, don't want to twaddle on endlessly, I shall finish with the setlist as I love a good list:

1. Empty Head
2. This Strange Dance (short arrangement)
3. Just A Fool
4. Fragile Creatures
5. The Chemicals
6. End Of The World (For Two)
7. Stowaways
8. Into The Night

After this show Tom was pretty sure it was the newest material that was strongest, and thinks we should try and get She Makes Me Nervous ready for the next live show (not that we have one booked). For my part I think it's high time we settled the drummer issue, before we do any more live shows - if that takes us out of action for a couple of months, well so-be-it. I'd also like to play on electric guitar on some of the songs. Acoustic has it's limitations - especially my guitar with it's crappy pick-up!

Onwards and upwards! X