Victorious Combinations

14 Feb 2008 CtV band update. It's funny that even though Combine the Victorious has only been performing live for less than a year now we've gone through several band member changes. Our first gig, performed in our basement, had Todd Simko ( Pure 's guitarist) playing guitar with us. Then, after our debut show at Richard's on Richards, Jesse Smith moved away to Toronto to play with his brother in Birds of Wales . In stepped Kevin Jones , ( The February March 's drummer) as Jesse's replacement. He's still with us along with his brother Nick Jones on keyboards: in fact Nick is the only other member of CtV that's been with us from the first rehearsal. Our second guitarist, Marc Wild , gave us three excellent shows, two of which were at Richard's, but after a very hectic 2007, Marc wanted to focus on his own music this year and opted out of doing more live performances. Considering how busy the guy is, it's wasn't...

5 Mar 2007 Our First Gig Current mood: mellow Just a quick word to thank everyone for coming to our party on Saturday and watching the band perform for the first time ever. We had an amazing time, it was so fun and the warm reception from everyone was incredible. Isabelle sang in front of people for the first time in her life and did an awesome job. I probably could have attempted to play a bit tighter and sing a bit more on the money but I was having too much fun to tone it down enough to keep it tight. Jesse was brilliant as always, he's such a pro, his drumming thankfully kept us together when my mind went a bit blank at times. Nick was great, but for the first time ever I heard him hit a couple wrong notes on the piano (the guy's a complete perfectionist - it was good to hear him be human after all). And then I must give very special thanks to my friend Todd Simko for playing guitar with us on our first gig. Todd was the guitarist in my ...