Nov 13, 2024 | General, Hints and tips, Recording, Studio
I’ve been doing quite a lot more mixing for other people recently, where they are recording using a DAW, editing it themselves and then sending the mixes to me to finish. The one thing I think I’ve noticed more than anything else is bad audio edits....
Oct 30, 2023 | Music, Recording, Studio
Since moving to the Netherlands I’ve not been doing much live work; mostly to spend the first few months of post-lockdown normality learning about my adopted home country, but of course it also has to be said that 700 miles is a long way to drive for some of the...
Jun 6, 2023 | Bands, Music, Public Gigs, Space Elevator, Touring
Very happy to be returning to the stage with Space Elevator this summer! Links to all dates on the second leg of the 2023 tour are below: 3rd August 2023 – Camden, NW5 3HS – The Fiddler’s Elbow 6th August 2023 – Cambridgeshire, CB21 4PT –...
Feb 27, 2023 | Bands, Music, Public Gigs, Space Elevator, Touring
Space Elevator are out on the road again. The band will be touring the UK as much as possible this year, and featuring Michael Bramwell on keys. The first batch of confirmed dates are: 19th April 2023 – The Portland Arms Cambridge – Buy tickets from the Space Elevator...
Sep 14, 2022 | Public Gigs
We’re going to try again! After our summer tour was postponed (due to the band coming down with Covid) we rescheduled all gigs for October, and we’ll see if we can stay infection-free for the duration. For my part, I shall be spending the next six weeks...
Dec 2, 2021 | Bands, Music, Space Elevator
Delighted that the new Space Elevator album will be released by On Stage Records on February 25th 2022. Something positive came out of the lockdown after all… This post shamelessly stolen from the Space Elevator website: There will be an opportunity to pre-order...
Oct 22, 2021 | General, Hints and tips, Motorcycle
…or: “This post will only be of interest to about 6 people” After being in the Netherlands for almost four months, we finally got our belongings sent out from the UK. Along with winter clothes, boxes of family photographs and all my guitars, came...
Aug 30, 2021 | General, Public Gigs
I guess we’ve all got a 2020 story, and while there’s a lot that everyone in the world shared, I know that it affected everybody differently. Aside from the horror story of how many people have lost their lives (or their loved ones), our day to day lives...
Jul 11, 2020 | General, Hints and tips, Music, Recording, Studio
A friend of mine has just started using Audacity because his ageing hard disk recorder has given up the ghost. Audacity is a pretty good way of experimenting with digital recording and editing without the expense of a full on digital audio production program, because...
Mar 3, 2020 | Bands, Blake's Heaven Big Band, Public Gigs
Blake’s Heaven are taking the Big Band Theory out again – the next show is on Saturday 18th April at the Oakwood Centre, in Woodley. Big Band Theory is a 90 minute musical journey through time, from 1896 through to the present day. Featuring original big...
