Let’s hear it for Preston’s finest…
My collection of freebies grew by 33.33% this week when I received a demo in the post to add to my two promotional CDs. It’s from a guy called Jon Lawrence, and his (as in he’s part of it…) band The Wandering Step. who are based in the Preston area.
They’ve been aroudn a bit. They released a single a while back on Deltasonic (Coral/ Zutons etc), but it didn’t work out, they had some time off, and now they’re back, doing gigs and sessions for GMR.
Jon’s currently leading the double life of trying to be a rock god, with studying journalism at the University of Central Lancashire focussing on new media. If one goes well, I’ll be begging him for freebie tickets, CDs and introductions to famous people. If he takes the other route, he might well be knocking on the door at work for a job. So we have a mutual interest in being nice to each other.
He’s managed to combine his two potential careers with a blog of his own that will hopefully move on from the current traumas of being a West Ham fan stranded in the north west of england, to follow their path to stardom, global domination, and then an acromonious drug-fuelled split-up and eventually a law case that leaves them all hating each other and slagging each other off in the Sun.
Before we get there, however, what about the demo? Pretty good, really. Guitary. La’s ish (but then isn’t everything). Melodic but not too obvious. Cant’ quite think of the best way to describe it. I think I’d enjoy seeing them live, but I don’t think I’d head up to Preston for the priviledge.
The thing is, I have no idea what would happen to that demo with some decent production. I might well have heard the next big thing, but I’m far too dumb to notice.
You can find some of their music on their site.