Track ten ‘Down below the sea’ is nearly to a performable state. I’m gonna try get it ready in time for the gig next weekend. It’d be good to have something new/different to bring to the set. Tis a very visual song, got lots of…
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Had last course chat yesterday evening. Started working on last assignment this morn too, tis a marketing campaign outline for the next album (Keep calm and carry on). There’s a load o’ things I’ve learnt the past three months that I hope to be integrating…
There’s two songs from the last CD (Gardens and Graveyards) I thought would be good enough to include in the live set, one of em, Bottle and the drum, we bein playing already for the last 14 months or so. The other, White devil, we…
Was working on the revisions of Red Balloon and Fisherman’s Blues during the week. Bein having some trouble with the chorus of Red Balloon, it didn’t seem to fit with the rest of the song but while I was messing about with it yesterday I…
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…
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…
