4Rockman
(St Ives, Cambs)
Thursday 4 Apr 2024, 1:20pm
As of October 8th 2024, we have now found our new members, and are looking forward to a new chapter in our musical journey. Many thanks to all who have shown interest here, and to Joinmyband for the help this forum has been on several successful searches over the years.
Our rock covers band is based near St Ives in Cambridgeshire, and we urgently need to replace one guitarist who has moved on, and a bassist who is now sadly finding it painful to play for long because of difficulties with his hand and wrist. We continued to play as a 4-piece for a while after one guitarist left, but would like to get back to the 5 members that we feel gives a better musical balance. We play mostly pubs once or twice a month, with over 150 gigs to date, covering Kaiser Chiefs, Franz Ferdinand, White Stripes, Talking Heads, Snow Patrol, Elvis Costello, Rolling Stones, Beatles, Neil Young, Foo Fighters, Bowie, Pink Floyd, Zutons, ZZT and the like.
Target line-up is existing female lead/backing singer, existing drummer who also does lead and backing vocals, existing guitarist, another new guitarist who ideally but not essentially could take lead on some songs, and back/harmonise on others, and bassist (also ideally singing as a bonus!).
We need reasonably experienced people enthused by performing in public to a good standard, and local enough to commit to regular rehearsals near St Ives. We have no aspirations of rock careers, recording contracts etc, just a desire to perform. We do need however people with some understanding of music and how songs work, with sufficient confidence to help in our continuing improvement.
If this is you, please reply here, and I will send a link to our Facebook page with videos of past gigs, giving an idea of who we are and what we have done so far. The videos will show that our band members span a wide range of ages, which we are happy to maintain! Dave