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Bands
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Vision |
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Sarah
joined her first band Vision in 1993 at the age of 19, with
two years guitar playing experience. |
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were aiming eventually to play rock music, Queen in particular,
but started off with simple old Rock and Roll numbers because
they were easier. They soon moved onto the Rock Songs they wanted
to play. |
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core of the band was eventually to be Drummer Steve Cole and
Sarah on Guitar. When Sarah joined the band they had a Lead
Guitarist, a close friend of Steve's, Scott Cunningham, and
a singer who they both met at school, Mark. |
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Vision
saw quite a few Bassists come and go, with their claim to fame
being a guy called Robin who had at one time played for the
70's Glam Rock band The Sweet (although not at a time when they
were in the spotlight). |
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Eventually
they stumbled across an amazing Vocalist by the name of Eric
Tankard. Eric was a George Micheal "Sound a like"
and narrowly missed selction for the TV program Stars In Their
Eyes. |
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Unfortunately
Sarah was forced to leave Vision when she developed Tinnitus,
ringing in the ears. So there's a lesson there for all you budding
"would be" guitarists. Wear Ear Plugs, it's just not
worth it! |
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Pictures
of Vision coming soon!
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Various
attempts at Bands |
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After
a few years of not playing in a band and missing it desperately,
Sarah went out, armed with some ear plugs, and made a few attempts
at putting together another band. Unfortunatly nothing took
off to a great degree, but it all serves as playing experience,
and Sarah gained alot of that while out there. |
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Scream |
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Sarah
joined Scream, a Reading based Rock covers band in Sept '98.
They worked hard at putting together a set and finding the last
two members of the band, a Bassist and Vocalist. Then after
several months of rehearsals they started Gigging. |
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Scream's
first gig was supporting a friend of Sarah's with a half hour
set consisting of just six songs, at the Star Pub in Guildford.
They went down extremely well! |
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(Pictures
of the gig to follow soon!)
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After
gaining a taste for gigging, they went on to do many more, including
several in the Student Bar at Reading University, Camberley
Boxing Club, The Fruitbat in Reading, a Police BBQ and a Christmas
party to name just a few. |
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Screams fortunes
were to turn, when their very talented Vocalist Karen decided
to leave the band after being offered singing work abroad.
Although dissapointed to lose her they were all delighted
for her. As a result of this loss, Scream managed to hook
together with a young man and Vocalist called Jamie who was
looking for a backing band. His outfit was called The First
Class.
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Click
here to download a copy of
Scream's Demo - Warning
this file is 5.3 Meg
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And
yes, that is sarah singing on the last Song! Now who needs
Ear Plugs?
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The
First Class |
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The
band Scream, minus Vocalist and the Lead Guitarist (Wayne),
manifested into The First Class, with sarah playing Lead Guitar
for the first time in a band. Jamie already had a list of well
paid gig's waiting for them, and they had to work very hard
to learn new songs. Although they took with them some of Screams
songs, this was Jamie's outfit, and he already had a set list,
none of which Scream knew how to play. So they set about learning
around 20 new songs in just a few weeks, ready for the first
gig. |
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The
Red Cow in Buckinghamshire was the first gig. Just a warm up
one to see how the new band would cope. Everything went well,
and it was all systems go. There were still many new songs to
learn before they could do anything major. |
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Sarah
was, by this time, having problems committing to the amount
of time Jamie was asking for, and so after just one more gig
she left the band. She later discovered that the rest of the
band and Jamie also went seperate ways at this point, meaning
at least she hadn't lost anything! |
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Smells
like Suchi |
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This
band was put together by Sarah for a one off gig for a Christmas
Party Dec '01. It was hosted by Sarah's Ju Jitsu Club
Tatsumaki Ju Jitsu Kai, and all the band members were
from within the club and training in Ju Jitsu. (Ok, so the Bassist
only did about 2 lessons, but it still counts!) |
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