At what point do you take a collection of songs that are independent of each other, written over months and changes in preference, and meld them into some sort of coherent ‘album’ form?
Or do you have to bother?
Regardless, it’s now a new year, and here’s a song that was technically all recorded in 2010, but for argument’s sake, since it was finished today, it counts as the first of 2011.
fancy a raw fish on a string?
give ‘a charitable interpretation’ one of its own.
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 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.
Reasons why a mandolin is better than a guitar #1
You can lie in bed on your back and still play the mandolin fairly well.
(this can also be seen as a disadvantage when you fall asleep playing said mandolin)
A recording of ‘sleeping solves nothing‘ has been uploaded, and can be found under the ‘listen’ link at the top of the page. It’ll play host to a variety of musical fancies in the future.
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