Amateur Premature - The Tapes

A lot of people come up to me and start the generic conversation that I've gotten so used to answering. It almost always goes as follows:

Random waste fellow: “Hey Prithvi! How’s your band doing? What do you guys call yourselves again? The Babes? Oh. The Tapes. Nice name”.

Me: “Doing good man. We’re just finishing up our new EP. ”

Now the remainder of that conversation can go two ways. Random waste fellow can either ask me what an EP is and I begrudgingly reply by saying it’s sort of like an album but with not as many songs on it. Or in the unlikely scenario that he turns out to be a not-so-waste fellow and actually knows what an EP is, the conversation continues:

Random waste fellow: “So what did you guys name your EP?”

Me: “Amateur Premature”

Random waste fellow: “Why that? Why not ‘Premature Amateur’?”

Me: “Because ‘Premature Amateur’ sounds like a teenage boy with free Wi-Fi and a lot of free time.”

Fapping jokes aside, things aren't exactly shooting along as we planned. Mostly due to Hyderabad's seasonal and shitty music scene. After having our chance to perform rejected from a very reputed college (whose name I don't want to mention in this blog) so that they could play more "desi beats" for their students, we sort of lost hope in the music scene. I'm not even kidding. They actually said "Desi beats".

But the show must on on. There are a two people to whom we would like to show some love and genuine appreciation for helping us out with this EP:

First is our man, the Gulshan Grover and all round ‘saree dropper’ – Rico. The stud behind the drum kit has been missing from action for over 5 months on account of his gigantic, newly acquired breasts(pectoral muscles, if you prefer), biceps and ripped abs. And now seeing how Muscat, where he now works as a chef, isn’t lacking in gorgeous women, we can understand his decision to move there. Even from thousands of miles away however, he still makes sure the EP sounds just the way we envisioned it to be, all those months ago when we first started jamming in Hari’s messy bedroom.

Come back soon, Macha.
“It’s a fucking cabbage, ra!”

Put those away! You might poke someones eye out.

Another person who has worked tirelessly with us to make this EP happen is Vijay Vadrevou. His humility,  desire to promote new talent and dislike for the same type of music as us has made him an absolute pleasure to work with. We thank you, Sir!

All we need now is a celebratory drink in your name.
 “Pull that bugger out!”

Loud gigs coming up soon. Be sure to buy the EP when its when its out!

I changed my mind, by the way, about not wanting to reveal the college. It was JNFAU.