Update!!

(Pic :Gaurav Jayprakash)

A bit late may-haps, but in our first update of the New Year, we'd like to start off by thanking each and everyone of you'll who have been to any of our shows, enjoyed our music and spread the word about Solder.

If the first two months of the year are a sign-age on the path of our journey forward, then we need no sooth sayers telling us the future augurs well for us. Or so we'd like to believe. But yes, these two months saw a whirlwind of positivity emerging from the band which reflected itself everywhere we went, be it a studio, a pub show or the jam room. The year started off with us recording two more demo tracks, namely "All By Myself" and "Passerby" in Kishan Balaji's home studio set up. (Any band looking to record do contact him, super guy to work with). All by Myself has already been released, but Passerby still needs to be mixed and mastered so expect a new single release sometime this month!!:-)

That was the studio, then we got down to jamming hard and playing some shows. January saw us head back to Kyra for our first show of the year, where we were met by a mixed audience, half of em there for the music and the other half for dinner, but by the end of the night the place was groovin to SOLDER (or so we'd like to think), but we did leave the place with a positive vibe, and for us as a band that is important, no negative vibes and feeling uncomfortable after the show. Next up, we were headlining the Jyoti Nivas College Fest- Scintillations '10. This was one mad mad mad gig!! We were supposed to start our set after the competition and play for about an hour, but due to programing issues the schedule went awry, and we were left playing a fifteen minute set. But what a set that was, JNC Scintillations '10 would rank among one of our better shows, and me thinks we did get them ladies singing along to Irish Coffee. Here a shout out to the boys at All The Fat Children (who won the competition that night) they were a huge help with the sound at the console, Vineeth Vincent, you be the (black) man.So yes, "Thank You JNC for one insane show"

Towards the end of January we were scheduled to open the "Red Bull Sound Clash" Bangalore, which featured Something Relevant from India vs Call from Pakistan, we were excited at the prospect of being the opening act of such an awesome concept, but when we reached the venue for our sound check we were told that we wouldn't be able to have a proper sound check as the channels already set by the band earlier could not be changed. Shocked at first and worried at the prospect of sounding horrendous on the day, we resorted to worrying and the nerves kicked in. But then to our rescue came Francis from Total Productions. Francis gave us separate channels for our guitars and vocals and we had a decent sound check though we weren't too happy with the drum sound, we couldn't do anything about it. Then when it was time to hit the stage, we did so with a renewed confidence and a sense of purpose to put on an awesome show, which I think we managed to do. Got good reviews from the people at the show and from the STR boys and Ameeth Thomas of JYG and some constructive criticism from Bruce Lee Mani of TAAQ. The very next day we had a show again in the afternoon this time, at Opus in The Creek. We played to a bunch of about 150 Bulleters and holla what fun!!

And so ended January.

February saw us play a show at Opus, Palace Cross Rd again. This time we were playing at an event promoted by The Bombay Elektrik Projekt for UTV World Movies and Music Nights. Good fun the gig was, sampled a new song too, and left the place well fed and drunk!!Thank you Opus, The Bombay Elektrik Projekt and UTV World Movies.

After this show we started the process of sound proofing our jam pad. Sourcing material from Chennai, we took about four days to get it done, and now we have ensured that we can spend that much more time jamming in the jam room, without disturbing Joel's' folks at home!!

So hard work here we come, are you ready??