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We just got a new singer for my band.  A very emotional time.

We'd gotten to the point where we were able to take the next step, from being a bunch of people on stage playing original songs, to a band, with an identity, sound and style.  I don't know if this makes sense, but we were growing from a good band to a potentially great band.  The problem was our singer wasn't there. She is a great singer, great lyricist, but she's only been doing this for 2 years.  She just doesn't have the experience.  She doesn't understand what it takes to go from good to great.  We've been as encouraging as possible, discussing what we all need to do to step up to the next level and she just doesn't get it.

It takes work.  Pure and simple.  Practice, of course.  But that's expected.  At this level, there is no excuse not to have your stuff down. After that, though, is all the band work.  Finding shows, making flyers, setting ups practices, maintaining a presence at shows and on the web and beyond, creating and maintaining a mailing list, sending out demos-both virtual and real, getting on compilations, then the real fun stuff...moving equipment, setting up equipment, trouble shooting equipment, packing and unpacking equipment, transporting said equipment, staying till 2 am because you lent the closing band equipment.....

Anyway, we've gotten to a point where we need not only a great singer, we need a great stage presence and someone eager to do some work.

So, we got someone! 
A great singer, with great stage presence, eager and willing to work.  We have to write melodies and lyrics to all our old stuff, so there's a lot of work to be done, but it looks like she's up to it.   We have a show booked in two weeks!  If we can get 5 songs down, which is a lot of work, but doable, we'll be set.

Check out her stuff. Listen to Clockwork.

http://www.myspace.com/syrenrocks