Half way through the week and its time to crank up towards weekend rehearsals. Lee has spent several days completely rethinking the band's songlists because of the change of singers.

I found out that our lost singer has won herself a part in Les Miserables, so we've got to be happy about that. Its a great opportunity, even if its a loss to us. But with only one woman up-front now there's going be a whole new process of choosing songs and sets and there's a pretty long list for the first cut. 195 songs in fact.

Here's a shorter version of our possible playlist.
4 Non Blondes - Pleasantly Blue The Bangles - Something That You Said
Bic Runga - Sway Blondie - Picture This
Bodeans - Feed the Fire Bree Sharp - David Duchovny
Cardigans - Favorite Game Concrete Blonde - Bloodletting (The Vampire Song)
Cindy Lauper - When You Were Mine Deadstar - Run Baby Run
Divinyls – Ain’t Gonna Eat Out My Heart Anymore
Elvis Costello - Pump It Up Eurogliders - Absolutely
Garbage - Special Holly and the Italians - Tell that Girl to Shut Up
Iggy Pop - Cry For Love Jann Arden - The Sound Of
Jennifer Paige - Crush Kirsty MacColl - A New England
La's - There She Goes Martha Davis - Don't tell me the time
Nancy Sinatra - Boots Are Made For Walking
Natalie Imbruglia - Torn Nena - 99 Luftballons
Patti Smith - Goodbye To You Pixies - Here Comes Your Man
The Plimsouls - A Million Miles Away Plumb - Lie Low
Pretenders - Everday is like a Sunday Refreshments - Bandidos (stupid people)
Robyn Hitchcock - So You Think You’re In Love
Smithereens - Blood and Roses Susanna Hoffs - All I Want
Talk Talk - It's My Life Talking Heads - Road To Nowhere
Tanita Tikaram - Twist in my sobriety The Raveonettes - That Great Love Sound
U2 - Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Wallflowers - One Headlight

We're looking to have about 40 songs good-to-go...say, 3 sets worth. As well we need to get a few rock solid standards (in case of boredom, hecklers or drunken crowds) and a few oohey-gooey engagement/ wedding/ bithday party numbers.

Trying to get the right balance of hard and soft, rock and ballad is pretty tough. All the band has to be able to agree on the set. They don't have to love a song but they've got to be able to stand playing it about twenty-dozen times. And how the band feels about the song is not as important as how the crowd feels about it. We try to have a balance of around 70% rock and 30% slower stuff, mostly in the middle of the set.

If anyone has any suggestions about the right setlist for a rock/power-pop band with a female lead singer, send me your comments.