Recently in Grok Category

If you'd have sat me down, lo these thirteen years ago when I was a sweaty, excitable teen, and said to me: "Listen, you know your favourite band right now? In over a decade, you're going to be mates with two of the guys from that band, and you're going to be in a band with them, and that band is going to put out an album, and, and this is the kicker, that album is going to not only be really uniq ...

As mentioned previously on this very blog, last year Grok absconded to the studios for two days where we turned on the recording devices and played whatever came into our heads at the time. This raw creative output has since been mixed, remixed and edited (primarily for brevity, and I must say it cuts like a knife turning a beautiful twelve-minute epic into a three-minute pop-punch) into an albu ...

Spent a very enjoyable and productive two days in the studio this weekend, making-up and recording songs on the fly, as is the Grok way. We ended up recording 31 songs, which Daryl the studio guy said was a record for the studio 'by a fair bit'. Each song about about 8-12 minutes long, so we must have recorded at least four hours of music. However this was just the first and probably easiest ste ...

Hot (well, warm) on the heels of our performance at The Secret Garden Party (which I will go into more detail about soon, I promise), Grok (the band that I am in) will be opening for the album release of Ghostclub. As usual it will be held at your favorite pub, and mine: The Spice. See y'all there if you can make it. UPDATE! Nat & Ian are both also having their birthdays at the gig, which is v ...

...

This is cool. Grok, the band that I am in, has been asked (yep, they came to us, we didn't even lobby for it) to play at a live music festival. I am in a little bit of shock about this. I mean, we've only played before a live audience twice, we don't have any songs, and we practice maybe twice a month if we're lucky. We seem to have fallen ass-backwards into a gig that most bands would fight tooth ...

If you missed our last, first barnstorming two-level gig a few weeks ago (or, indeed, if you didn't), don't miss our potentially triumphant SUNDAY gig....THIS SUNDAY!!! Sunday? FUNday more like! Where: Downstairs at the Spice of Life, Soho When: 8.30 PM Sunday 12 February, 2006 Who else: Karim Fanous @ 8:00 pm (Singer/ Songwriter) Grok @ 8:30 pm (Experimental) Lucid Oak @ 9:00 pm ...

Well the gig was ah, a lot of fun, certainly an enormous turnout, the venue had two floors and they both seemed to be packed to the walls (admittedly each floor was about ten square feet but still, it looked impressive). Thanks to all the loverly people who turned up- I hope you experienced even a fraction of the entertainment levels that I did. ...

Happy New Year, team. This is the flyer for a gig on Saturday, featuring Grok, the band that I am in. You should ah, come! Cause we're really good. I mean, I think we are. No-one's actually ever heard us play before, so I may be totally fooling myself. Do come along. UPDATE: 8 music from the Depressing Crew 8.30 Mathew Sawyer 9.15 GROK 10 James III and the Courtesan 10.45 Bib 11.30 Zerox Te ...