i've been with my band for 4 years i was a founding member,we've seen line up changes,musical changes we've a good and bad times we worked hard for many years but things always got in the way of really putting our hearts into it financial problems,personal addictions the fact that we were to interested in sleeping around and drinking wasn't much help.
i went through a dark patch with them (or without depends how you see it) i'd lost my job,i was doubting myself as a person and i subsequently fired from the band in the space of a week,i'd bin replaced by someone who could afford to get to the rehearsal space and sang better, my life spiralled and fell into a state of depression,i drank and took all the drugs i could i didnt want to die, i just didn't want to feel or remember,i wasn't depressed that my friends had sacked me,it was the fact that my life now had no music to it it was going no where,i would be just another bloke from a council estate in england workin all day for nothing.
i accepted i couldnt live like that and needed to prove to everyone who said i wouldn't do anything with my life that i would do summat.
i took a pen and paper and in an hour wrote 10 songs which i showed the former band we ran through the songs because their new singer never showed up (ever) i was back in my life had music again.
we're now about to play our first festival and record our first album hopefully by next year i'll be touring the country making name for myself and spitting in the faces of those who said i couldn't.
thanks for reading,
ibbey
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