*sigh* It really gets me that I lost those ideas, and I have to just improvise the album. *shakes head* I had such great planning sessions for this .. ah, well. Moaning doesn't help anything. ^_^
Oh, and I want to clear this up for a second before you read -- I'm only putting a little "segment" of each song in front of the chapter. I mean, if you think I should write the whole song .. I don't know. I'm just trying to keep everybody from being confused. ^_^ Their songs are longer than that!
Accio, accio
You Summoned me
I can't say no
Accio, accio
Do you think I'm spinning and
I like it?
Do you think the world has held
new joy?
Do you think I'm upside down
and fighting?
Do you think you've finally got
me, boy?
Accio, accio
You Summoned me
I can't say no
Accio, accio
Accio, Accio/You
Summoned Me was our brainchild for awhile; by "us" I mean Dana and I. We usually holed ourselves up in my room, eating chocolate syrup and playing
with chords on our guitars. Lara Mills, the DJ on WWN, was very patient
with us about this first album and played our songs even before we finished;
she's such a wonderful, outgoing, fun-loving person, and it's no wonder
all of us adore her. She really made us work together well.
The people at
the studio were all pretty nice to us, too, not making us sign a contract
that would cut us off from Lara, because that would probably hurt us as
a band. Once we got famous enough that having a manager would actually
mean something, we unanimously decided to have Lara as ours. She'd
been a DJ for eight years, and knew the industry quite well -- she also
had excellent common sense about things. Sure, she can get pretty
venemous when she needs to, but it's still great having her on tours.
Whenever we perform,
we use the Streaming Charm to print the lyrics of the song above us as
we song -- that was a great idea of Dana's, and our fans love it! The Daily Prophet even had a write-up about our first performance on the
Love Potion tour, in Hogsmeade's Sonorus Theater. That was amazing. I think it was probably the first time we realized how big we'd gotten,
which is absolutely thrilling! I wish I could keep going back to
that theater and singing for the first time again.
The crowds seemed
to Apparate or Portkey in all at once, fifteen minutes before the show,
and Sand, Dana, and I kept peeking out from behind the curtains to see. Izzy and Rach rolled their eyes at us, and Lara yelled at us, but it was
worth seeing what we saw. I was struck dumb by the sheer size of
the audience -- they all wanted to hear our music? Izzy was
getting three different instruments ready -- as the ultimate musical prodigy
of the group, she always stands on the sidelines with lute, cello, bagpipes,
whatever puts the "Weird" in our name. Rach and Dana were doing vocal
exercises, but I don't tense up before a performance, so I had just grabbed
some bottled water that was spelled to help singers. Sand, with the
help of Lara, was fawning over her drums, and playing around with the drumsticks
to loosen everybody up. It helped, I think; we all giggled, I resisted
dumping my water on her head, and suddenly we were on.
As we'd decided,
we sang Love Potion first, and then Dance, which is a great crowd-mover. Rach also loves to sing it -- first because she wrote it, second because
it's really fast-paced and just misses being a tongue-twister. It's
a challenge. We did Fire after that, and Floo Powder, and No Time
To Turn, despite the fact that the recording studio hated it. The
crowd didn't share their feelings, it seemed.
We kept playing
songs, but the time just sped by. All of us were hot and sweaty,
but we were caught up in the exhilaration of the moment and wouldn't have
stopped for the world. Our fans screamed for almost the entire length
of Transfigure This -- it's a very heated song, so I suppose it's no wonder
-- and I'm Confunded. The list went on and on, and the more we played,
the more I wished we'd written more; every song was a step closer to the
end. We finished off with Accio, Accio, and we all agreed, drinking
butterbeers some time later, that it had been the best night of our lives.
Our next booking
was a well-guarded secret -- Hogwarts. Professor Dumbledore had contacted
us to play for the Yule Ball, and of course we agreed! The Triwizard
Tournament was a huge event, especially with Harry Potter as the fourth
champion, and at that point nobody suspected what was to occur at the tournament's
end. Meeting other wizards and going to Hogwarts -- because it was
supposed to be such a fantastic place -- was going to be fantastic for
all five of us. We all chattered excitedly in a back room, eating
a splendid feast, before Professor Dumbledore conjured the stage for us. The decorations were amazing; there were lovely wreaths of mistletoe and
ivy and silvery frost everywhere.
Again, we did
Love Potion and Dance; the kids loved Dance. They were a lovely audience,
really, and it was great to see all of them dressed up. Viktor Krum's
date looked absolutely stunning, and she was an excellent dancer as well. Izzy said she caught sight of two twins as well, wearing neon pink and
turquoise and dancing with about seven different partners. The strangest
pair, though, was two huge people -- a lady in a beautiful lavender dress
and a gigantic man in a hairy brown suit, swirling around the hall. Smiling as we played, we knew that that night was a chance to have as much
fun as the students were, and thoroughly enjoyed ourselves. It was
the best Christmas I'd ever had!
All the same,
the fatigue caught up with us later, and we were grateful for the back
room Dumbledore let us use that night. The people in the portraits
kept flitting around as we talked, but they were too interested in themselves
to really listen to us. Izzy and Rach kept wondering what the Durmstrang
Institute was like, because everything about it was hidden from the public
eye. There were rumors about Professor Karkaroff, Durmstrang's Headmaster,
teaching far more Dark Arts than most would find acceptable, but nobody
was really sure, and that topic wore out quickly. The French school,
Beauxbatons, seemed to have attracted much more attention from most of
the Hogwarts students. Sand noticed that a bunch of Hogwarts girls,
including the neon twins, kept flocking around one table of Beauxbatons
boys, and many Hogwarts boys kept shooting glances over at a Beauxbatons
girl who looked like she had veela relatives. Then, of course, there
was the gigantic headmistress of that school, and it was fun to speculate
what might happen at that place. It was a night where we could enjoy
being a band and being friends, and we all slept happily that night. I don't think any of us wanted to leave when the time came in the morning.