You are allowed to enjoy this…

What to say? What is there to say? I don’t know. An expensive folly? An experiment in wasting time? A way of discovering the things you like and the things you don’t like? I don’t know what to think. The Missus tells me that many people talk about the things they want to do but I am one of the few that actually do it. I did it. Whoopee do!

I’m not going to talk anymore on it here. If you want to know the story then email me and I’ll talk privately, but not here. There’s no point. Whatever I write here can be taken down, bent and moulded into whatever they want it to be. That’s one of the reasons I’ve been silent on my blog over the past three and a bit years.

But it was nice the first day back, to walk out with my daughter and to have no one stare at me, to be anonymous again, to be me again. It is nice.

Now the blog is back on again in full effect. I bet you are all pleased, no?

So I have finally finished “The Luckiest Man in the World” and have done the sleeve design. All I have to do now is get the masters uploaded and produced. Anyway, for those of you who want to see the sleeve ahead of time, here it is:

Lookee – someone has used my music in a short animation piece (mine is from about the 45 second mark). Yes, my stuff does make for good atmospheric film music! The track snippet is from “Descent of the Fallen I” from the “Empty Spaces” CD.

Going through all the old data folders for my archival project, I sometimes come across some audio gold in there, tracks that have been forgotten. In this case, I have found a 10+ minutes ambient guitar piece that I must have recorded close to the 9/11 Twin Towers attack (because the file was title “Twin Towers” and upon listening to it does have a certain cinematic quality relating to the events of that day).
This was recorded back in the day when I was using a Roland GR-1 as my guitar synth and in terms of looping I think I was using a Line 6 DD-4 digital delay pedal. The great thing about the DD-4 was that with a little bit of cheating, you could coax 20-seconds of decaying sound-on-sound stereo delay.
Twin Towers was recorded in this fashion with the guitar going straight into the delay pedal and everything being played live with no overdubs later.
Enjoy!

Of course, we all know that Christmas is really just about the kids and this year Verity has shown more interest in the festive season and can ably articulate her thoughts. Because she’s only three-years-old and she likes any excuse to stay up a little later, we often have extended chats about this, that and the other. Tonight, we talked about Christmas and she was so on-target, I grabbed the video camera and captured her thought process.
It sounds mawkish and sentimental, but it is times like these that you understand why you have children. They transport you back to a more innocent time – heck, I’ve never look forward to Christmas so much since we’ve had the kids!

Someone has been raiding my dreams, for verily there is beach where all your favourite celebrities from TV, Film and music jig about lip-synching to “Let It Be” by the Beatles. This video is just brilliant on so many levels and features some of my faves too. I dare you not to sit through this without pointing at the screen at couple of times and saying “So that’s what xxx looks like now”.
Plus, it’s got John Nettles – the mighty Bergerac – in it… Sweet!