The band was on point this past Saturday night. The crowd was the usual lot at Mac's, mostly 20 somethings looking for a rowdy time, nothing new there. But I swear, we were just locked in. Voice just seemed to carry farther and hit harder. The rest of the band were right there with it and the crowd responded with electricity. By the end of the gig people were packed in so deep they could hardly move, yet move they did, almost like a wave crashing throughout the venue and breaking upon the raised stage at the front. Every time the band looked to stop the crowd bayed for more. By the time they finally left the stage the band had run through just about every song they had written. Afterwards the crew went out for wings, drawing down the last of the 3k that went into the pot just a week earlier.

It was time to write some new songs. K had been feeling inspired after their most recent contract and the acquisition of new power to write some new material. They came to practice with handfuls of scribbled lyrics and some hummed ideas for how the tunes might go. Turns out Kate (the bassist) had some ideas of her own that had been kicking around in her head that ended up flowing like magic along with K's ideas and within a couple of hours they had 4 new songs taking shape. Songs that really spoke to the messages that K and the band had been trying to convey but just never quite seemed to have the words or the beat to, but now had the flow to make it happen. Speaking of the beat, Allan (the drummer) was on fire as well, getting into the Grove and laying down the drive that propelled the new songs to be easily the best work of the band so far.