Alas there may be some changes on the horizon for the band setup as Dermot is off to College in Cork or Galway, interviews pending. Great for him to build on his performance skills with theory and practical stuff but not so good for the…
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Another min-fest in Ballytobin bein and gone. T’were a hectic few days but all seemed to have had a good time and the weather was dry and decent for the most part. We got the whole place cleaned up and back in order in around…
We had our first gig with Liam on bass last Saturday at this years Castle Variations. Really nice set-up they had, twas in a bigger castle/house this time. More room for accommodation, recording and practicing and even two full time cooks. The end of week…
Ordered a MIDI drum pad yesterday in order for Dermot to be able to occasionally play some melodic lines while on the drum kit. I was going to pick up a xylophone or glockenspiel on ebay but ended up deciding we’d try use some of…
Finally got thru the rest of the Ableton Live 8 manual this week. Just the short CL-3 manual to get thru and then I’ll start building some tracks with the new’ish live rig. Looking forward to once again trawling thru record/charity shops looking for weird…
Distractions, distraction and more divided attentions. Yet another week inflicted for the most part by “option paralysis” . Too much to do and not knowing where to start. Always seems to be this way between finishing one set of jobs and starting another. Its like…
Bit of a weird week, as I finished up various commissions I got meself abit burnt out in the process. Too much time spent in the office over the last month. That said I took it easy the last three day and defo feel the…
After another large bout of re-oraganzing this week as I had to jiggify around the work order to accomadate more commission and course work time within each day. Also started in on two new website commissions, one for an online sports programme yolk and the…
Started on the Berklee Topspin course today, unfor gonna miss the student online meet n’ greet as at GMT it falls at 3am. Will try make the next group chat with a large pot of coffee. The new site is slowly rolling out. Ive updated…