Over the past week I have trying to book a venue for my gig. I have looked into gig venues in Glasgow City Centre because myself, Alistair Duncan, Andrew Abercrombie and Steven Croft are planning on doing all of our gigs on the same night and we agreed on a venue in the city centre as this is easily accessible for everyone. I have looked into such venues as Rockers, Nice n Sleazys, Cathouse, Classic Grand etc. I have contacted these venues and found out all the details I need including prices, equipment, size etc.

The main problem I am finding now is that the majority of these venues are too small to host the 10-11 piece I am going to have for my performance. One of my singers, Jennifer McLardy, is an events coordinator and I have asked her for her help to find me a suitable venue. She called me last night informing me that she has got into contact with King Tut's and is awaiting reply and also advised me that I may be best hiring a hall so I am also going to look into this solution.

I have contacted a lecturer at James Watt College, Steph Greer to see if he can advise anywhere that would be suitable and within our budget because he has many contacts within the industry especially the Glasgow area and he has hired out the likes of Oran Mor before for our class last year.

I have drawn up a list of my set up required for my performance and I plan to hire out any additional equipment I need from the college. I spoke with Ronnie on Tuesday at my drum lesson about getting hold of a timbale drum. He informed me that there may be one within the college, I will e-mail and remind him of this nearer the time of my next drum lesson to see if I will be able to hire this out for my gig.

I spoke my my old drum lecturer at James Watt College last week and informed him I am looking for another backing singer. I already have one, Stephanie Strachan from James Watt who I met a couple of weeks ago at a recording session in the college. She was doing backing vocals for another Perth student, Charlene Gordon, and I thought she was very good and very professional. I got her number and asked her if she would like to do backing vocals for my gig and she agreed. I have been keeping in contact with her regularly and given her the songs she will be singing on. I hope to get another backing vocalist however if this is not possible I am going to ask my bass player Nick if he would contribute to the backing vocals as he also very good at this and he does backing vocals in our function band.

Last week at practice we decided that "Hella Good" will need a sequence track behind it as there is too much going on within the song for us to compensate, there is not enough of us to fill it out. Scott my keyboard player has been working on making one with his keyboard. On the night he will direct a click track directly to me through headphones so that the audience will not hear this, they will only hear the backing track. He informed me last night that he was making the track and it was going well. Unfortunately for me, he called me today and informed me that his keyboard does not save sequence tracks and that when he turned his keyboard off the track deleted so we are not going to be able to practice this song today. The solution for this now is to make the track again and save it to a memory stick. This will be completed for next week's practice.

I feel my project is going well so far, the band are very professional and have been making my songs sound very good. I hope to have a venue booked very soon. If I cannot get a larger size venue, I will look into cutting my band down slightly so that we can fit comfortably in Nice n Sleazys, for instance just having one extra backing singer and have Nick do backing and perhaps leaving the trombone player so that there is less people on stage.