Day 323

Leaf dancers.

We went to the Battle of the Bands tonight, to see Nick performing in the band Battery Foote.  They were the last band on stage, out of about ten or twelve, and we sat through an interminable amount of noise in order to see them, only to find that they were cut short because of the time! 

photo provided by Tim Bouwer

As a mother of one of the band members I am of course biased, but they did seem to be the best band by far.  Their musicians are truly brilliant, innovative inventors, and of course the singer is wonderful! 

So many of the bands were loud and obnoxious.  It seems that there are many youngsters who are super-confident but with no knowledge of their own lack of ability, or maybe I am getting too old, or maybe everyone is tone-deaf!

It is still a particularly testosterone-driven activity, a rock band.  There was one girl in a band of 5 boys.  She was the singer and was absolutely awful, painful to the ears.  The other girl was part of a band of three, with two boys, called 24Strings, which is a lovely name too.  They took turns to sing, were humble and very good.  She is quite phenomenal, in fact, and could easily have a career in music, writing and performing her own songs with a unique purity of voice and spirit. 

Music.