Back Again (No, really)

I’m pretty much turning into that guy. You know the one who has a blog but every entry seems to be all like ‘I’m sorry I haven’t updated in a while, I’ve been super busy, etc, etc.’ I’ll try to keep better to schedule in future.

Glastonbury

So I went to Glastonbury Festival which was pretty damn awesome actually. Saw a shit-ton of music though unfortunately I was on shift with Oxfam when Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood did their secret acoustic set, kinda gutted about that.

One of the advantages of volunteering a festival is that you arrive earlier and instead of staying in the Oxfam site we went and camped on Big Ground. Here is a photo taken on Tuesday from the campsite the day before the general public were allowed in.So quiet….

You can see the pyramid stage in the distance and there’s hardly anyone around. The next picture was taken less than two hours of the festival being made open to the public.

BAM! Sea of Tents!

I enjoyed Glastonbury a lot more than I did Reading festival last year. The atmosphere was a lot more ‘feel good’ and not nearly as hostile and somewhat hedonistic as at Reading.

I’ve set myself the goal of playing there at some point within the next three years. I think it’s achievable but it’s going to be hard work and I’m going to need the support of my fans to pull it off. However that’s for once the album is finished; speaking of which.

Album

Progress on this has been hindered recently due to me losing my voice and all my gear failing on me at once. However this is now back on track, especially as I now have a brand spanking new Shure SM57; it does the business, it was a worthy investment. Dolphin Music were incredibly helpful and were ever so kind as to send me a new mic stand the next day free of charge when I told them the one they sent me arrived damaged. They’ve consistently given me excellent service and I highly recommend them to anyone looking to purchase music supplies online.

The next post should have more information on how that’s progressing. I’m hoping to have it done before Summer in the City so I can give some physical copies to people who find me. I reckon that’d be a nice idea

Website

Currently paused as I need some more content to go on it first, photos/music etc. Some features I was originally hoping to have are likely going to be scrapped or put on hold for a while due to my own technical limitations, namely the member based social network system. I was kinda biting more than I could chew with the hope that I would be able to learn to chew it, but I think I have to draw the line a bit here. I’ll make a video when that’s all launched.

Videos

With the album steadily shaping up, I’ve been conceiving videos that could go with the songs. Initially I was planning on having a video for every song, but I don’t know how worth it that would be. Perhaps you could let me know what you think? Leave a comment/email me

Other stuff

I saw Air at the HMV Forum this weekend. They were pretty damn awesome but all I could think through the whole set was ‘Damn, I really really want a synthesizer and vocoder.’

I think the next big purchase for me is something like a micoKORG. They look like a barrel of fun. I could then go all Ratatat and industrial rock like. That’d be awesome…

Also I’m going to be doing a blogtv show this Saturday at 12pm. Hopefully I’ll see you all there