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First song for my courier musical “The Bittersweet Delivery”

Sunday, June 13th, 2010

Ok random blog reading peeps… I’m going to give you a preview of this courier musical I’m writing.

Remember I’m not a pianist in the slightest. At best, I’m a mediocre cellist and bassist.

But here it is anyway… a “sort of” song that still hasn’t been finished yet. Mostly because I’m trying to connect the verse and the chorus while not knowing how to play piano. And because this song is supposed to be the final song in the entire piece so I still have to make the other songs to inject a little bit of each of them in the end.

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Oh yes. It’s all planned.

Well, no. It’s actually not.

But it’ll seem like it is.

Until you read this entry, anyway.

Tags: courier musical
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Some of the best R&B I’ve heard in a while is the news.

Friday, April 24th, 2009

The guys/guys/team behind this is putting out some excellent work. It’s a shame it gets a little bit slow in the Gorilla scene in this one, but the music they’re producing out of the news is excellent.

In case you’re curious what the concept is, it’s “Auto-Tune the news”.

For the uninitiated & unaware, Auto-Tune is the technology behind a lot of music artists’ careers. Thesoftware corrects your voice to the right tone and – when used right and in small increments – becomes very hard to notice. You can actually make anyone sound decent with it.

Even Britney Spears.

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That’s My Mum!

Thursday, July 10th, 2008

My Mum is a music artist.

You probably didn't realise this. I was creating an animated music video for her up until recently. One of these days, I'll try to finish it: multi-layered animation while you're holding up a regular job where you work over-time kinda kills the time you get for animation a bit.

Anyway, now my Mum's band – Khartoum Capers – has been signed.

Go look.

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As Tall As A Dear Hunter

Friday, March 14th, 2008

This article is a few weeks coming and I apologise for that. The Ruthie Foster one will be following shortly too.

While Soundwave wasn't too impressive an organised thing, the people deciding to put it on felt the need to make a little bit more money by running what they called "Sidewaves". These were side gigs that bands from Soundwave would play in each city.

Not having our complete fill of As Tall As Lions and The Dear Hunter, my brother Michael and I went on the Monday.

That was the day after Soundwave. We'd both been to work that day and I was exhausted from the day prior.

As well as burnt.

The Dear Hunter were one of a few bands I got photos of that night…