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::Sunday, October 17, 2004::
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Never Mind The Fireworks
Well Hello.
So I've got this gig lined up. With some peoples from work. Long time readers may remember that this blog started during the build up to my last gig. Check the number of archive entries to see how very long ago this was...
I'm playing in a little room on the 6th November. Drop me an email if you want an invite with the details.
I've spent every spare hour for the whole of the last week preparing for it, and this trend will continue right up to the line. Three days ago any questions about how I'm feeling about it would have been answered with a sigh and silence. Today, having done some work, I'm inclined to say it's gonna be a bit special. Something you ain't heard before.
I tell you what though - it's a massive technical challenge before creativity and musical originality comes into it. Getting my three-year-old laptop nice and zippy again, porting files across and rationalising the bits of the tracks I'm gonna play into a single file; managing memory and storage, optimising performance, programming MIDI controllers (there is nothing on this earth less user-friendly than MIDI control-change numbers and implementation guides, and the 'helper software' that 'makes it easy' to program the Kenton Spin Doctor and the Evolution MK-449C is, respectively, the most illogical and convoluted I have ever seen, and blue-screens my laptop. Cold hard reset. Scandisk. Trust me - you're a million miles away from feeling musically expressive by the time you've set the equipment up to let you be...) Nevertheless, it's coming together. I've got the shit together where I need it. Where I can practice it.
Oh hey - I bought the coolest thing yesterday: trumpet radio mic! A little gooseneck mini-mic that clips to the bell of the trumpet and a radio-pack to plug it into, and a receiver that plugs into the mixer. Safe as f*ck. It's immensely practical: I can now start to make my trumpet recordings a lot more consistent, and I can look at the computer screen while I'm recording and SEE the levels, It also has fun surveillance potential... Maybe I'll get a recording of that church downstairs (I could walk inside and get a high quality recording on my computer upstairs!).
So anyway, well anyway, I need to get some rest. I'll try to keep you posted. If you care.
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::Thursday, October 07, 2004::
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""Smunk""
Hey yo yo what's up.
Cinestatical Researchology hasslin me.
Reporting the situation:
I'm setting up my limited company. I had a choice of the following list:
AUTORUN LIMITED
CORELEY LIMITED
EXIVATION LIMITED
FERNEY LIMITED
GOLDREX LIMITED
HEXNET LIMITED
LEIGHBAY LIMITED
ROMSOFT LIMITED
STEPWEB LIMITED
ULTINET LIMITED
WEBSPIN LIMITED
They're off-the-shelf things. I decided to go for the most obscure; I should soon be the managing director of "Exivation Ltd.".
Expenses will be written off. Keyboards may be purchased. Flyers and stickers may be printed. CDs may be pressed. Lighting rigs may be hired. Yes, I'm thinking about setting up a night. Slow to start with, naturally. I just got to thinking: "Who am I gonna support?" and came up with the answer (with the help of Foz and Beatmasta Bill) "I should always be top of the bill". So let's give it a go. Plenty of folks wanting to do similar things, so it should be fun.
I had a dream I was playing live with my band.. I don't have a band, but in my dream it was very fun - japanese lady drummer, instrumentalists, a studio guy on the set; me doing my thing. And all my friends were there to help out. I had little stickers.
Hey ho. So I've had to migrate a website and then restore it again after a month due to web host incompetence. I'm working 8 hours a day as a web developer for the Evil Law Firm via the Funky Website Company. I've been rearranging my room to make it easier to practice the live performy stuff. I've been seeing lots of my lovely ladyfriend. I got a new phone (I can now Google from the pub! At last!). I'm going to my brother's birthday party in Leeds next week, and I'm off to Brussels for a Plexiphonic night late November.
Sitting in the pub with work colleagues this evening - they're talking about moving out of London - into the countryside - move to easier pastures... I found myself thinking nah. I'm starting to get bored of even Brixton - next stop Los Angeles... More intensity! But I've got to get somewhere with London first.
Yeah - I like a bit of hard work. It's invigorating. It leads to yet more hard work. You get things done. None of this sitting around not being sure where to focus my efforts. There's no nervous breakdown, there's a mental breakthrough.
Oh anyways. I wish my photos hadn't been destroyed. I'll get them back up when I remember.
C'mon now!
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