CUE Music Database - Music news, reviews, tickets, CDs, photos, videos - 1000s of artistsLasting Dignity: My perspective of Draining Patience.2000, A very good year to become a rockstar in my mind. It was the year I met Justin and realised that I wanted
to make the music that reaches through your body and pumps your adrenal gland. I wanted to make a statement that screams, hell yeah!
We are here! We are playing the songs that we love to hear! Most artists will say the very same, but I always knew in my heart that so
many of my peers were just pleasing the faceless massive. Sell-outs, washouts. Or were they?The past seven years has taught us that with fame (infamy?) comes a whole ocean of swill and tripe that you have to wade through to reach those little islands in the spotlight.
Where you become larger than life and swell in the moment as the music pours out of your soul. It was through countless gigs,
setting up, learning musically and technically, that life as a musician is near impossible to sustain. Justin became a qualified sound technician and dabbled in home-recordings till
we were able to put out our fist E.P. (I wont even go into ’professional recordings we did prior, lets just say I want to beat someone whenever I think
of what they will say to take your cold hard cash from your hand). It was anticipated by our tiny little fanbase. It was a start. It was pure and our own.A few years down the line we realised a 5-track demo. Semi- brilliant. It blew up big for us and cemented our standing. We were expected to be big and heavy.
We did all we could: Global Battle of the Bands, Woodstock (my favorite), Jack Hammer Days (the good old days?). But creating hate and anger burns the candle from both ends.So after a two year run it came crashing down.Some needed to redefine their music and I wish them well.
I left for greener pastures overseas and kept in touch with Justin and my old friends. I eventualy picked up the guitar again and past the time in my own little world.
I missed the light and I missed the sound. People cheering and clamouring for more time with you. But I finally saw the global perspective of music.
Diversity and hardwork, Technicality against passion. Rise or Fall. It was inevitable:I came home.Justin was certainly not sitting on his laurels in my absence. He had rewritten a load of material and produced some fresh rocking tunes. He had also drafted in
one of the hottest young drummers P.E. has to offer: Wouter. The kid cooks. He has the ambition and talent which we needed to drive our songs straight through your heart.
The dynamic change also required a second guitar position. Emile Haarhof a long time personal friend of the band was drafted in to flesh out the sound. So with a fresh arsenal of
tunes and a fresh feel I wrote the opening statement for our Draining Patience group:’Sooner or later, things change.’That is why bands mellow out or fold-up. People change. We had reached a crossroads and knew that this is the music we wanted to make. We wanted to reach people in a new way.
I feel a few of our more hardcore mates had thought we lost our damn minds. Maybe we have! The crossroad has brought us together and united our purpose,
but we still have a way to go down this new wide road... bear with us, we wont let you stumble in doubt.
Wayne, 2008
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