Audition Info
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Auditions are on the 5th July at the OFS, George St, Oxford. Sign up below to book an audition slot and Hannah will send you more details!
LOCATION
The Studio, Old Fire Station, George St, Oxford
There will be signs once you get inside the OFS.
WHAT TO PREPARE
We would advise that maybe you bring your own prepared song, i.e. one that you are comfortable with and know well, and learn one or maybe two of our songs.
WHAT WE'RE PROVIDING
A speaker and a mic.
A cable for plugging in an iPod or mp3 player if your have your own recorded accompaniment.
A laptop with some karaoke-style backing tracks of the songs listed below...!
WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR
A great voice, a flexible voice, a nice person, someone with stage presence.
SONG LIST
Respect (Aretha Franklin)
Ain't no Mountain High Enough (Diana Ross)
Blame it on the Boogie (Jackson 5)
I Want you Back (Jackson 5)
Cosmic Girl (Jamiroquai)
Shake Your Tail Feather (Ray Charles/Blues Brothers)
Sir Duke (Stevie Wonder)
Forget you (Cee Lo Green)
I Feel Good (James Brown)
Lady Marmalade (Labelle/Moulin Rouge)
Son of a Preacher Man (Dusty Springfield)
Valerie (Amy Winehouse)
Feeling Good (Muse/Simone)
Higher and Higher (Jackie Wilson)
LINK: Spotify list with all the songs
A BIT MORE ABOUT THE BAND
Our normal line up includes 2 vocalists (male and female), 1 trumpet, 3 saxes, piano, bass, guitar and drums :-) We do backing vocals with the vocalist who isn't leading the song, and the tenor sax and bassist singing too.
We do 1, sometimes 2 gigs a month. They are a mixture of pub gigs (3-4 a year), weddings and parties (5-6 a year), and music festivals (1-2 a year). We also go into a recording studio once a year to record tracks. Nearly all gigs are London and Oxford based, with weddings being within 1-2 hours drive of London or Oxford.
The pub gigs don't make too much money and the cash goes into the band pot to pay for rehearsal space, studio time, admin costs.
The weddings and parties tend to be paid about £100per person plus a contribution towards travel costs.
We rehearse about 1/month, in Oxford or London.
None of us are in it for the money at all, but appreciate not having to contribute to any running and rehearsal costs, and we enjoy getting paid for the wedding/private gigs :-)
We all have day jobs and love being able to be in a semi-pro band, it's a release and never a chore. We're good mates and when we have to sit around between sound check and gig, or wait as the wedding runs late, we have a laugh and are positive.
We have about 15 originals written by us, which we play at pub gigs and festivals. We have about 30 covers which we play at weddings/private gigs.