The Koalas: Year in Review

Happy holidays everyone!!

Daniel, here, bringing you all up to speed on what’s what. Needless to say, we’ve all been a little busy with the winter festivities and the oncoming New Year. I thought that this would be a good time to look back on this past year in the life and times of The Koalas.

Starting in January, we’d been together as a band for about 3 months and were kind of tired of doing mostly covers; we wanted to write our own material. We figured that we gelled pretty well and wanted to let the collective, creative juices flow. Based on the fact that Losing Control and One More Time came out of our initial jam sessions, we expected good things from ourselves. So between then and our second basement show, we wrote Traffic (thankfully with the help of Pete’s brother, Mike), We Only Have Tonight, Senseless Infinity and Distant Home. We got a good reaction to our material as well as constructive criticism from friends who really dug our sound.

Now, the idea of playing our first show was within our sight. However, we realized that we were unknown and playing with a well established Montreal band would definitely work in our favor. Thankfully, Chris was good friends with the girls from Line Spectra and they were more than welcome to play our first show with us. During this time, we wrote our latest song, Reality Check as well as the instrumental Desert Sky; which we debuted at our first official show! The reception was amazing as our family and friends seemed to have a real awesome time and we also had a blast performing for them.

Now, with the year dwindling down, we’ve been working on a new song with two shows happening in January and most likely recording some of our songs for a demo CD. Based on the progress we’ve made over the year, you can all expect good things from the Koalas; we certainly do.

-Daniel

«Almost Christmas...» says the very stressed person.

Hey Guys!!!

 Pat writing in, taking a break from studying. Indeed, this exam period has been crazy on my part and for band members in general. They're all done of course lol but me, being at UQAM, we finish «retardedely» late. Just to give you an idea, my schedule as from last tuesday:
-tuesday: study all day + readings for a 10ish pages essay on the concept of virtu in stoicism and paulinism.
-wednesday: exam in the morning (question: what gives a linguistic proposition its signification?) + more reading for essay + study for friday's exam.
-thursday: class (in class quizz) + study for friday's exam
-friday: exam + the writing of 13 pages on virtu
-saturday: gathering the bibliography for the 13 pages-essay (18 books and articles) + studying for exam n°1 on monday.
-sunday: study for monday's exams n°1 and n°2.
Sunday we, the band, are also meeting some important person. we will tell you more about it this week!!!! Pretty excited!
-MONDAY: two exams. the hand-in of the essay.
DONE? no....got a methodology paper due for the 28th...F.M.S(tudent).L.
after monday, it's work 'til Christmas...

Anyways, my break from studying is over.
Going back to Plato, St. Augustin, Descartes and Berkeley and (as a musical background) Sting. Pretty sweet though, when you think of it :P

I'm out

Pat.

Food, exams and lack of sleep.

Greetings Interwebs.

Band wise, even though we only ended up meeting up once this week cause of the end of semester exam madness, it was actually pretty damn productive. That song that we were all just looking at each other while jamming (if you don't know what I'm talking about, go read Pat's blog) is coming along really well. Got some lyrics written down and the melody sounds ridiculously bad ass.
We celebrated with Harveys. Onion rings...

Bacon and Swiss cheese stuffed french toast dumplings covered in maple syrup. Yeah, you better read that again. It's the most delicious thing i have ever made in the history of ever. I've had some pretty much every day since I made them last week, and you bet I'll be having some tomorrow. Pictures of their deliciousness will be posted so you can all be jealous.


Soon we'll be done our exams, some sooner than others (me) and after sleeping for about 30ish hours, we plan on finishing up 2 new songs we're working on and actually get some recording done! EXCITING things in the horizon!

K I'M DONE

-Pete O'Clock