September Update

Hi Everyone - here we are with the latest update on what the band have been getting up to over the last few weeks; and what a busy time it's been too!!

For starters the band played a charity gig at Chinnerys on Thursday 24th September, supported by our good friends Malachai. It was all in aid of Able Kidz, a fairly new local charity which aims to help get disabled kids into mainstream education and give them the support they need - a really good cause. For a thursday night we had a great turn out, which was probably helped by the publicity on the run up to the gig. You may have heard the guys on Southend Radio on the Sunday prior to the gig, along with Sue Lee from the charity - 'Foot Down' from the 'Turn Out the Light' album got its first radio play, and more importantly we were able to plug the charity and the gig really well. Thanks to Tracy Cooper for letting us invade her studio! If you didn't hear that, you might have seen the article in the Evening Echo on Wednesday 23rd instead! Anyway, it all turned out to be a great night and thanks for coming along if you were there - much appreciated!

So on to the next line up of gigs. You'll see that we're finally playing the Sutton Arms in Southend this Friday night starting at about 10.00. All your favorite Reeper classics will be in there, along with some of the tracks from the album of course, and a couple of new songs which still have to be recorded. We're looking forward to it (as I write its only 2 days away!) and we hope you'll be able to come down and support us - it would be really good to see you there!

After that, we have another slot at Chinnerys on 22nd October, this time a great night with 4 bands including Solliss, so it should be a superb night. Ticket prices are yet to be confirmed, but mark it your diary now - this will be a good one!!

Then it's on to Saks Nightclub on 11th November. This will be our first visit to Saks so we're hoping for a good turn out and if you can come on down to see us we'de be dead chuffed to seeyou there - as always!

And of course we have our two Christmas gigs in the diary at Riga (17th and 18th). The first will be our annual Christmas party night which is always good fun; and on the other we support local legends Eddie and the Hot Rods. Both are guaranteed great nights out on the run up to the festive season, so hopefully we'll see you at one of them - or maybe both of them!?!

Apart from the gigs, the band continue their busy rehearsal schedule, though it's sometimes difficult to get everyone together because of other commitments; in fact the guys were asked if they wanted to enter Southend Radio's Battle of the Bands again this year, and although they would dearly loved to have played, they were just too busy to be able to fit it in!

In other news, drummer James and Matt played with Not Dead Yet (NDY) the other Sunday at the Cornucopia. Some good old rock n' roll! In fact the rest of Reeper were there as well, so in the end the whole band got up an played a couple of off the cuff numbers! Good fun it was too!! Keep an eye out for NDY - Matt plays with them regularly and they're a really great classic rock n' roll outfit.

Finally, a reminder that it's guitarist Ant's birthday on 19th October - but we won't let you in on how old! Suffice to say, old enough to know better!

I guess that's about it for this time round - plenty to be going on with!

Catch you out there at the gigs hopefully - and another post late October all being well.

Cheers for now

REEPER