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
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