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Hi! This is the gig diary about The RAILS Band and our shows in Second Life. (For more info. on SL, please see www.secondlife.com)

We are a four person band from Toronto, who have been playing together for almost 5 years (except new bass player Jill, with whom we celebrated our one year anniversary in June10). Our music is original indie rock with a punkish edge. We are currently working on our second studio recording.

The avatar line-up includes Lolly Gladstone on vocals and keys, Jeremy Barracuda on electric guitar and harmonies, Jill Garnet on bass guitar and harmonies, and Chops Baxton on drums.

We began to perform within Second Life in Feb 2007. The full band is usually in SL for one show per week, but sometimes Lolly & Jeremy do a duet act too, backed by a vintage drum machine called an Oberheim.

In addition to presenting good original musical entertainment in Second Life, our goal here is to make the visual aspect of a performance interesting too, through the use of clothing, props and animations. We try to show the audience a good time!

We like to play in Second Life because it allows us to reach a worldwide audience, and the gear is so much lighter to carry around from gig to gig.

The outfits in each blog post are the actual things we wore for the show that's being blogged.

The positions taken by the Rails Avatar Band in these pictures are dependent upon poses that creators make using an outside program. Without the pose makers we could not create the avatar dioramas that we do. Thanks to them.

If your name has been included in an entry and you'd rather it not be, please contact me (Lolly Gladstone).

If you'd like to find our group inworld, please search for The Rails Band Group.

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March 10th, 2010 8:37 am

The RAILS Band Gig Diary - Entry #11-2010 Show Date: February 24, 2010. Venue: Sea Breeze

When we were asked to do a mid-week show for avid music lover Moard Ling, Jeremy and I said “Sure thing, Ling”. He had been loaned some space temporarily and had built this great stage there.

Thanks to Moard for inviting us to perform. It was a lot of fun and we were happy to welcome some new Rockaholics to our group, including Axesore Earst and Paddling Melody. We’re happy to meet you guys!

Too bad the place was not there for long … when I checked back, thinking I’d take our photographs there, it was sadly already gone. So we played pool instead.

Speaking about pool, in researching the topic of billiards around Second Life, I was amused to find that the majority of the tables that I found were not for playing on, but rather for having sex on. Well, erm, I guess that’s playing too, but you know what I mean!