World's laziest blogger updates LJ shocka!
So, another few weeks have slipped by without an update. No great surprise there, but I have been busy. Honest.
I've given my website a srping clean - nothing major, but I've combined the bootleg and remix pages into a single handy repository (which I'm going to give a thorough clean out in a few weeks, removing a number of tracks forever as they no longer represent where I am musically now, so if you ever wanted to get hold of anything, now's your ideal opportunity), and added a page for my monthly Radio Fettdog mix, an hour of eclectic tunes that I've loving put together for you (yes, just for you!), and there's a link to my War of the Worlds project, which will be relaunched in the spring with the redux version that I'm almost finished.
I've also been writing and recording a couple of tracks with a talented singer based in Boston called Marcie (check out her website at www.webmarcie.com ). I'll be doing final mixes on them this weekend (and if you're interested they're called 'Stretch Out' and 'Play With Me' and vry much in the pop/rock arena) and working on a third track, something a little more sedate but still fairly intense.
On the writing front, I finally finished "A Week In Paris - An Illustrated Journal", 11,000 words and loads of arty black and white photos documenting our week over there last September, and should be receiving a proof copy through the post by the time we return from Paris (yes, we're going again!) and after that unless there are any last minute revisions it'll be published and you can actually buy it! Yes, I'll be a published author, available in due course on Amazon and everything! :-)
My other project is progressing nicely as well. As many of you know I'm writing a semi-autobiographical bok about the rock scene in the mid to late 80s, and have just hit the magic 50,000 word mark, so I'm half way towards my target length. I'm putting all music work bar my project with Marcie on hold while I concentrate on finishing this.
As I mentioned we're off to Paris again a week tomorrow, so I'm looking forward to taking more photographs, with a view to perhaps publishing a book of them later in the year. I've also been getting a lot of great feedback from people regarding the photos I've taken of Jo over the past year, so it might be fun to work with some other models later this year, but that's not a priority at the moment. Still, it's nice to know I'm doing something right. :-)
OK, enough about me - check out Panic! At The Disco, an interesting new band from Las Vegas (and thanks to Lizzie B for sending me the MP3s :-) ). They're currently getting major airtime on my MP3 player and I'm gutted that I just missed out on getting tickets for their London show this morning. I;m also loving Editors (their album is superb) and the new A-Ha album, Analogue, is stunning. We saw them at Shepherd's Bush Empire last week and I have to say that not only were they very entertaining, but Morten Harket has one of the best live voices I've ever heard (and I've heard a few in my time).
Enjoy your weekends, kids, and I promise to try not to break my promise to write more frequently. ;-)
I've given my website a srping clean - nothing major, but I've combined the bootleg and remix pages into a single handy repository (which I'm going to give a thorough clean out in a few weeks, removing a number of tracks forever as they no longer represent where I am musically now, so if you ever wanted to get hold of anything, now's your ideal opportunity), and added a page for my monthly Radio Fettdog mix, an hour of eclectic tunes that I've loving put together for you (yes, just for you!), and there's a link to my War of the Worlds project, which will be relaunched in the spring with the redux version that I'm almost finished.
I've also been writing and recording a couple of tracks with a talented singer based in Boston called Marcie (check out her website at www.webmarcie.com ). I'll be doing final mixes on them this weekend (and if you're interested they're called 'Stretch Out' and 'Play With Me' and vry much in the pop/rock arena) and working on a third track, something a little more sedate but still fairly intense.
On the writing front, I finally finished "A Week In Paris - An Illustrated Journal", 11,000 words and loads of arty black and white photos documenting our week over there last September, and should be receiving a proof copy through the post by the time we return from Paris (yes, we're going again!) and after that unless there are any last minute revisions it'll be published and you can actually buy it! Yes, I'll be a published author, available in due course on Amazon and everything! :-)
My other project is progressing nicely as well. As many of you know I'm writing a semi-autobiographical bok about the rock scene in the mid to late 80s, and have just hit the magic 50,000 word mark, so I'm half way towards my target length. I'm putting all music work bar my project with Marcie on hold while I concentrate on finishing this.
As I mentioned we're off to Paris again a week tomorrow, so I'm looking forward to taking more photographs, with a view to perhaps publishing a book of them later in the year. I've also been getting a lot of great feedback from people regarding the photos I've taken of Jo over the past year, so it might be fun to work with some other models later this year, but that's not a priority at the moment. Still, it's nice to know I'm doing something right. :-)
OK, enough about me - check out Panic! At The Disco, an interesting new band from Las Vegas (and thanks to Lizzie B for sending me the MP3s :-) ). They're currently getting major airtime on my MP3 player and I'm gutted that I just missed out on getting tickets for their London show this morning. I;m also loving Editors (their album is superb) and the new A-Ha album, Analogue, is stunning. We saw them at Shepherd's Bush Empire last week and I have to say that not only were they very entertaining, but Morten Harket has one of the best live voices I've ever heard (and I've heard a few in my time).
Enjoy your weekends, kids, and I promise to try not to break my promise to write more frequently. ;-)