I'm back to explain my experience.

Over the last month or so i've been, by turns: too busy to write on here, too lazy to write on here and too not fussed to write on here. I've also neglected the part of me that believes that what i write has some significance, some power or a need to be written. Does it matter?

I've been too busy wih band rehearsals, though not as busy as we should be. We still only practice once a week, which isn't enough. As every week has passed we've progressed comfortably on from the previous week. We can still just about count the number of practices on both hands that we've had so far. We are now playing together very well, we know the 7 songs we run through each week increasingly more and know ehn to change and snippets of how best to play sections. We are at the stage where we need some outside opinion on what we do, to pickup on the parts that sound good and the parts that don't. My confidence in playing the guitar and singing has increased, my proficiency though still leaves a lot to be desired. It's really quite difficult to be the only person holding the melody together. Both John and Luke have their work cut out for them playing the drums and the bass, but thats the rhythm section and the remainder of the tune is left to me. If i was playing either the guitar or singing seperately then it would be great and i could concentrate on making either one sound as good as it can. Doing both sadly ends up sounding like a clumsy shadow of that which i am capable of.