  Throughout my life, I had a feeling that the phrase 'devourer of souls' would be a part of my life. I thought it might have been by ex-girlfriend's nickname, but I finally discovered it's the name of the band I'm in. Kha is Ancient Egyptian for soul, and Ammut was the Egyptian god that devoured souls if they were impure. Search for Ammut Kha on Google and choose the second website, and you'll see my words are truth. The whole part about believing 'devourer of souls' being a part of my life was bullshit, but the rest was pretty much true - my band's name is Ammut-Kha, my ex's nickname was devourer of souls, and as far as I know, Google still works. So... This may seem a little unrelated to my daily life...oh, no, wait, I already explained about my band in my first post.
H'okay... My band has been invited to play at the Embassy Club in Stratford upon Avon about two or so months. Nothing extensive, just a few songs, maybe a cover or two, just backing another band from my school. I'm friends with 4/5s of that band, y'see, so we get priority (not that it's much sought after). We were both ecstatic and worried. Sure, someone's offering us a gig in a small place, quite a few people but the only ones that will really care are our friends anyway, so it seems like the ideal beginner gig - if something goes wrong, everyone will laugh with us and not laugh at us (or even boo) - but we're not exactly coordinated at the moment, and we all have mocks in January, so we won't have much time to practice. Still...it is a great chance to get ourselves noticed, and I can now play one of our songs and two covers all the way through and of a reasonable standard. We're probably going to play one of our songs, For Whom The Bell Tolls by Metallica, and One , again by Metallica, all of which I can play pretty well. THERE'S JUST ONE MASSIVE PROBLEM . We have no drummer. :'( I don't know how we overlooked it when we started in August last year, but we didn't get a drummer and we still don't have one. It's all well and good having someone fill for you, but you have to know them, know their playing style etc, before you can really play properly IMHO. This applies more to guitarists or other musicians than to drummers, but still...I have a terrible feeling something's going to go wrong.
It might not even be our drummer - I'm not one for doing anything in front of large groups of attentive people, and Miles (the bassist) doesn't sound too sure...but then again, we haven't got much to lose. We're probably the second from last 'popularity group' in our year, so no-one will think any less of us - and some might admire us for having the guts to perform (but then again, they are a pretty callous lot) - but even in our circle of friends we're not appreciated as such - more kind of...er...laughed at.
Even though most of them can't even hold a guitar the right way round...>:( Ah well. At least we get to play music..which is good, although I'd rather have an audience of close friends that I can 'beat up' when they laugh than a dimly lit leering peer group that I can't even insult back. Please, please, email me, I'm lonely. mrpwase@hotmail.com 
