Listening To: The Amorphous Androgynous - The Galaxial Pharmaceutical
Updates, updates. What's going on with me?
Well, I'm still looking for a record label to release Vacuum Road Songs. May take a long time. I have lots of other little things in the works too, though. First off is the band, which is still going mostly nowhere, but Stephen and I have written a number of songs, largely 60s inspired things. Somewhere between The Coral, (early) Pink Floyd, Mansun and Oasis, I suppose. It's all rather interesting, but we haven't even played anything with Liam and Claire yet, so anything even remotely approaching completion is a long way off. I have been doing some music with them both, though. I'm going to be playing bass for a few acoustic songs Liam's written to do at some open mic stuff at some point in the near or far future, as long as I can convince him to get it all on the road. Claire and I have been working on some "poppy electro folk", as she calls it. Acoustic guitars, glitchy beats, a few synths and so on. You know the score. Pitchfork'll love it. For my course we're doing Consent To Content (see a couple of entries below) in a very 60s style... hard panned drums, tons of reverb, not enough microphones, tambourines and hand claps. We've even convinced Joe to stop noodling and play some Hank Marvin guitar for a while. Hopefully we'll have some clips of that rather soon.
I've also been working in Reaktor as part of the course, and to be frank, I fucking hate it. Too much control, way too sciency and alltogether thoroughly annoying. I've never been that much of a techie, but this just takes the piss. As soon as one of the tutorials started talking about algorithms I realised I was wasting my time.
Emotions have been all over the place lately, been rather insane. Highs and lows and all sorts. I've taken to carrying a little pen and book around with me and writing lyrics, poems, stories, thoughts, whatever down in it. Most of it's pointless ranting, but I've come up with a few nice ideas.
It's November 5th, and everyone's celebrating the death of my great great great great (x a lot) uncle's death. Being related to Guy Fawkes adds a rather odd shine to the day. I don't think I'll be doing much tonight.
Anyway, with all this going on, I'm sure we'll have some audio clips for you all very soon.
