I’m currently looking at getting a musical or ‘singing’ saw.
Having a gander on the internet reveals that there’s a player in my home town of Kirkintilloch.
Who’d have thought it?
Bring on the saw.
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In a wonderful development, the gloriously helpful lady at the Subway depot called me up to say that my keys had been found.
Almost as good as that itself was the wonderful symbolism in the fact that they were handed in in Govan.
To celebrate this, I finished off a track with a long name.. (as well as a Jack Daniels or two)
‘be suspicious of well written lines (they’re the ones they’ve practised)’
is listed up above, along with the others.
It has been a day of difficulty, but not for the reasons I first envisaged this morning.
Instead of the possible social awkwardness that may have unfolded, (and how I wish it had!) I was instead granted the scenario of losing my keys on public transport.
Well, I assume it was on public transport.
Who knows.
Maybe some nice person will hand them in and I won’t need to fork out some ridiculous amount to some car sales-people.. or I could always learn to hot wire?
The best way to deal with such situations is to have a chippy, a large glass of single malt, and throw a ton of instruments into the one song.
After such anticipation for the postman arriving today with a new accordion, the jubilation was dashed upon discovery of dodgy keys, which mean a trip to the post office to fire it back again to the returns people.
Before it got boxed up and put away, it managed to finish off a song in its dying breaths.
‘nice try Rousseau’ has been sitting about for a while looking.. waiting for something to complete it.
And here it is. (Soundcloud)
I thought it was probably appropriate to break the convention of no capitalisation for Mr. Rousseau; him being such a towering figure of the enlightenment and all.
I always play with God chillaxing in the background.
Managing to reclaim some time from the other demands of life, a new track has come together.
‘future on the road’ can be found in the usual place.
Any chance of a gig in the near future?
Hello. Just saw this, so the grandest of apologies if you asked weeks or months ago.
I don’t see there being anything live in the near future.. Since I play everything on the tracks, it’ll take a while to work out the logistics of exactly how it would pan out in the flesh.
If anybody fancies learning the mandolin/guitar/glockenspiel parts then feel free to give me a shout! I can be a cruel task master though.
Rather shockingly, unexpected bowtie won last week’s songfight.
I never need to win anything again. Sniff.
What an empty, beautiful victory.
After the briefest of discussions, Keith of the Keith Appreciation Society agreed to come and donate a guitar riff or four to a track. It may have been the offer of vodka that swayed that decision.
None the less, you can find the resulting aural feast on the Listen page above, or here for the lazy.
In addition, for those of you that would rather stream than download, you can do so to your heart’s content over at our shiny new Soundcloud page.
It’s nice to have options.
For many years I’ve listened in to SongFight! where people write and record a song to a pre-given title within the space of one week.
It caused much anguish since a) I had no recording gear to speak of b) Writing a song in that space of time that I didn’t hate would have been like parting the red sea.
So with much pomp and ceremony, this week I submitted my first ever songfight song – ‘Crashing Cars, Awarding Stars’, and would like to call upon you fine people to go and vote for it.
I don’t win the chance to go on a world tour, or to ‘shadow an NME photographer for a night’; there’s no sexy women in g-strings waiting, and definitely no champagne. All there is is the sweet sweet taste of success.
So, instead of clicking refresh on Facebook, why not head over and vote for unexpected bowtie?
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