Almost through 2012, one more song to go and we'll embark on the 2013 sessions!
only 30 more songs to go...Galatic Solar Flare
Almost through 2012, one more song to go and we'll embark on the 2013 sessions!
only 30 more songs to go...Galatic Solar Flare
In the past few years my family has grown from having to buy for three people to now having to buy for twenty three people ...explosion!!
but in a great way
however, best not to forget that Christmas can be crap for some people, its not all mice pies and mulled wine.... Santa De La Rocha
Death. There I've said it, a song about losing someone from this earth but finding them in ourselves making us stronger
Do you live in a cave away from the world? No neither do I, but some do. . .Got This One
My brain feels a little broken today and clarity as a mere dream away...Tiger Stripes
Who keeps your world spinning?
[…] Keeps The World Spinning
Don't let the days fly by, tune your day to the daily play
Dreams . of . a Grizzly . Bear.
I'm sure the combined sound of everyone's heartbeat would be deafening, combined with the sound of the ocean, it.would.blow.your.ears.off...Universal Heartbeat
Boarded up windows, derelict shops stuffed full of forgotten treasures you can fall with the town or pucker up, grab your broom, find a sound system and make something of your town...
We are all...King of this Failing Town
Feeling the pressure of a busy life at the moment, not been in the flat too much and this is a song primarily about putting socks on and going to the beach....horses
Man flu alert, I've spent more time in bed than on dry land in the last few days and have disposed of enough tissues to build a small damn across a big river, be better next week maybe!...Illliiinn
OK, so first attempt to purchase Glasto tickets failed at the weekend, resale in April, hopefully I'll be n the bill by that point so won't have to purchase a ticket....
that's how it works isn't it??....Who'dyafinkyaR
Someone called me 'wrong' the other day, but I guess in our own way we are all wrong, or indeed all right, depends on which way you fancy looking at the world doesn't it!
Just Steppin Out
Erm, this sounds like I recorded it in a toilet through the on board mic on the Mac with a really old acoustic guitar who's strings haven't been changed for over 15 years...oh that's what I did do
please dont judge me...Shitty Chicken Song
Wouldn't know how to play this live but then that's what happens when you play around with sounds....still I'd work it out for Glasto!...Monopothelo
So I may, perhaps have my mind still in Devon, on a beach, in the sun, falling off my surf board over and over again...
time to roll out the CamperVan...DriveCampSurfSleep
We all have good days and days when things can seem hard and the world is against us but if we keep hold of the good times and fight through the bad with a smile (and a chat with friends or strangers!) it aint as bad as it can sometimes seem... Soft Kiss Hard Wall
Devon. surfing. hurting arms. that is all. Forever (and the rest)
A year ago tomorrow (21st August 2011) I had one song, Italian Widow, I thought this song was pretty good and it had only taken me half a day or so to write and record.... I then hatched a plan...
A nice simple easy plan.... Play Glastonbury
Hmm I wonder, if I write and record a brand new, original song every week until Glastonbury 2013 perhaps someone will let me play!?
Foolish, naive, nobber, whichever way, I have now completed an entire year, 52 songs in 52 weeks and will keep doing this until someone lets me onto a stage at Glasto...2013? 2014? 2015? I’ll keep writing GOD DAMN IT!!!
Anyway, if you want to bask in the glorious(??) sounds of the past year then please click on the months, years and song titles on the right of the screen, 52 songs (2 with vids) await you (and counting)
This week however, is Noble Nomad...
Nice little play around with some synths this week, my guitar is so filthy and needs some new strings, so we have some electronic sounds. beep beep beeeeeeeeep... MisterMasterMan
Back on the internet but alas, still a day late so will remedy this next week unless somehow on earth I manage to get an Olympic ticket...Another Adventure
Back on track, although still no internet in the flat. GAHHHHHH!
This almost had a horrendous rap in the middle but through puffy tired eyes I decided against it, all vocals done in one take very quietly as the whole of the block was asleep when I was recording and I have no soundproofing...OneFingerOneThumb
Although his post looks like it's a week late and I may not have been hiding away writing songs like I should have been it's actually because of the stupid internet. Please see example A below:
Clearly it was put onto my iTunes at home a week ago but due to failure of a certain broadband company I have failed to upload it. Challenge still on...Thunder Mountain
note to self. fix internet.
working day behind myself as no internet at home but thanks to the magic that is memory sticks I can transport music around wherever I may go, that has nothing to do with the song though which is about...Ambulance (the sound of)
Offspring make me wanna mosh, listening to the Kerrang! Radio DJ's rubbish their new song made me laugh, having my bike stolen made me sad, Saturday was a funny day...Tea Leaf
I've been asked to play at the Cine-East fringe festival this coming weekend so I though a movie tinted song was in order, I remember watching Evil Dead 2 at a friends house in school, we spent the whole film laughing and screaming as I hadn't ever seen anything like it before! Many horror B-movies later, I still love them...Do You Wanna (go to the movies)
Been all carried away with the Euros and England and what not (go team 11!) so uploaded this to Facebook last night but forgot to do the actual bloody blog post...anyway a song about getting a takeaway whilst being stranded at sea...Fishing for takeaway
This is inspired by Short Music for Short People which has 101 bands playing 30 second songs (The Mr.T Experience and Descendants being particularly brilliant) this was a great introduction to some amazing punk bands and opened a world away from the 3 minute single! It also always came in useful when trying to make a compilation tape hit exactly 45 minutes (C90) or 30 minutes (C60)...Short Music
After spending some time in a cove, living off freshly caught fish in view of nobody but the sun, the birds and the saltwater inhabitants, I returned to find my dusty phone wanting to update lots of apps. I soon clocked that 100million people have updated their Facebook Android app signing the T's & C's that allow Facebook to read their text messages, access and record audio from their handset and take photo's at any timefrom their camera phone.
I've reconciled myself with the fact that we are watched by CCTV in public places and that Facebook and other apps sell our data to 3rd parties but for a company to have access to the camera on my phone and the audio that accompanies this is nothing more than the Owellian World detailed in 1984. You'll know which one is my phone, it'll be the one with the microphone picked out, gaffa tape over the lens and no Facebook application installed...Your Phone is Their CCTV
I try not to link a 'bad area' in the eyes of the media with fear, when you know an area the dark wierd looking lanes come alive and are not so dark. I live in hackney and it gets a bad rep but all in all it's a pretty good place to live. Good pubs, good kebabs, cheap(ish) housing and we've got the new RouteMaster - yeah take that Greenwich! But however long you live somewhere there are still some lanes that look dodgy as F=*k ... Esquath Lane
Now I'm no farmer, I have a balcony it gets some good action, carrots, herbs, strawberry's beetroot, usually enough for a few meals every year. However if I had a field (or an allotment) I could grow loads of stuff, purple sprouting broccoli would be amazing, not very rock'n'roll but amazing... Like Farmer Like Sun
Oh how lovable zombies have become, just think of olde Nick Frost at the end of Sean of the Dead, just wanna hug him don't you...no biting, especially on Zombie Island
The Circus fascinates me, I love the variety and skill of the performers but cannot help (probably due to movies) thinking that there is a murky underworld that the Circus revolves around, a path to the darker side of live, a path away from this normal realm of ours... Greatest (horror) show on Earth