In no particular order except that which they come to mind.

- Kvelertak - Kvelertak. Metal is usually a harder sell than most other genres for me, mostly because the mainstream stuff is pretty tedious, and the more technical stuff is often just a little too abrasive. There are few bands that appeal to me in the same way as Tool do, being ( Read more... )

Okay, I got my music blog up and running yesterday. Just one review so far, Hanne Hukkelberg's 'Little Things', but I'll hopefully have more to follow. I'm never going to run out of albums to review, but I guess I should be focussing more on (relatively) new releases. As such, I'll be reviewing Bibio's 'The Apple and the Tooth' next. It's excellent ( Read more... )

On my way to work yesterday, I saw a heron perched on a roof not far from my house. Another bird that I assumed to be a crow was flying around it, occasionally swooping at it, which would cause the heron to duck. Eventually it flew away, and the crow followed it aggressively. I meant to Tweet about it when I got to work, but it slipped my mind. I ( Read more... )

Shit, I should update this before I go away for the weekend. So, I'm going away for the weekend! My parents have flown to Coventry to stay with my Nan for Easter, so I'm going to visit them today, coming back on Monday. There isn't really a lot to do in Coventry (Whenever I've gone there since moving to Cambridge, I've always had trouble finding ( Read more... )

Okay, here's the song I finished recently. I wanted to post it here last week, but the file-hosting service I usually use was down. It's still a bit flaky!


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On Friday after work, I got a train to Torquay. It took me five and a half hours to get there, in total; I was hoping to get an earlier train at Paddington, but I arrived at precisely the same tame as it was leaving. Arrived in Torquay at 11:30, played MAME roms with James until about 2am. We spent an inordinate amount of time playing Smash TV, for ( Read more... )

I've made a certain amount of progress on a remix I've been working on for the Cancer fundraiser today. Not amazing progress, but more substantial than any I've made for some time. I've had my internet access turned off for the majority of the day, to try and reduce the number of distractions, but this was only partially successful, as I was ( Read more... )

Since I only took half a day's holiday from work this year (And that was for an interview), I found myself with three and half days remaining when I handed in my notice at the current place. Apparently it's company policy that I have to take the holiday, rather than have it paid to me, so I took it all at once, surrounding this weekend. I'm off ( Read more... )

I can't remember much about what I did for the latter half of this week. Little of import happened at work. I need to start documenting procedures before I leave, as well as implementing a load of audio that keeps getting delayed because I haven't had the facilities to implement it properly, but I really can't motivate myself. How can you care ( Read more... )

I seem to have committed myself to three different music projects at the moment. Perhaps this was not such a great idea considering that the final output of them all will probably exceed what I've produced in the past year. However, maybe this will be enough to motivate me! Here are the projects, in the order I accepted them ( Read more... )