May 12, 2017 | Bands, General, Hints and tips
I’ve bought a new toy. It took me about 2 years to get round to it, but once I’d tried it out I knew it was the right thing to do! It’s not a Star Trek teleporter, nor is it a one-man bass riser, it’s a very cool monitoring system that, when...
Nov 30, 2016 | Bands, Public Gigs, The Missing Persians
Just finished a nice little tour with The Missing Persians, the bluesy americana type band I play with. We first toured the Netherlands in 2015 after a Dutch musician/promoter saw us playing at an Oxfordshire festival (one of our first gigs) and we had a great...
Dec 10, 2015 | General, Hints and tips, Recording, Studio
As part and parcel of being a musician these days, you seem to need to do so much more than just play music. You need to understand marketing, social media, website maintenance and management, and (certainly if you use a DAW – home studio recording system) you...
Dec 10, 2015 | Bands, Hints and tips, Recording, Studio, The Missing Persians
I started writing this post when we’d booked some time together to begin recording the Missing Persians second album – I then saved the draft. I’m typing the text you’re reading now when we’re about halfway through the recording process....
Nov 3, 2015 | Bands, Recording, Studio, We Are Puppets
This is really new (we’ve only had the name “We Are Puppets” for a couple of weeks) while also being quite old. It takes over where Beelzebozo left off, seeing as it’s three of the ‘Bozos recording a similar noise but utilizing more...
Aug 20, 2015 | Bands, Space Elevator
I’ve been doing some more gigs with Space Elevator and and feeling a little more like a fulltime member of the band now that we’ve got our first recording session booked for new material. Exciting stuff!
Aug 20, 2015 | Public Gigs
Most recently one of my old bands have got together to rehearse for a one-off gig on Saturday 5th September. We’ve been Beelzebozo for quite some time now but we stopped gigging a few years ago, tried to find a new member when our singer left, floundered about...
Jul 20, 2015 | Bands, Blake's Funk
Recently I’ve been doing some gigs with the Blake’s Heaven’s funk offshoot – still not sure exactly whether there’s an official name yet but Blake’s Funk Project seems to be the favourite contender so far. After an initial demo...
Jun 10, 2015 | Bands, Recording
It seems to be the season for recording projects! The Toneheadz jazz fusion band are also about to start recording – rehearsals are tricky as we all live a fair distance from each other and are all quite busy, but we are planning a recording session in the near...
Mar 20, 2015 | General, Hints and tips, Studio
I’ve just replaced my main music computer. My ageing iMac was becoming unable to cope with what I ask of it (running Cubase and some video editing being my main concerns) without showing what a friend of mine has called “the rainbow wheel of perpetual...
