Listening To: Brian Eno - An Ending (Ascent)
Some exciting updates here. First up, the band is on hold, if not over. Some stuff happening with Stephen and myself, which need not be discussed here, have put it on the back burner. The lack of drummer and long-term singer (Claire may well be leaving Leeds in June), a year after we started searching, were signalling an all together pessimistic tone for the project anyway, so maybe it's for the best.
Talking of the amicable Ms. Taylor, our EP is coming along quite well. No exact titles floating around yet, other than a working title of "Yorkshire Bank" for one song. We've got a few little tracks, though. One is sounding quite Postal Service-esque, which normally I'd refuse to do, only I wrote it, so heh. Jaunty beats, bubbling synths and a sickeningly jolly guitar part. There's something vaguely trip-hoppish about another track, which is pretty moody, and the aforementioned Yorkshire Bank is all skittering clicks, folk guitars and organs. The current plan is to get a six track EP together before the year's out (probably a bit hasty, given our rather full schedules at the moment), and then start gigging. The gigs should be a lark. We're thinking costumes and instruments and stuff. I'm also fond of the idea of her standing very still and shy - as she is - and me leaping around with a guitar like a moron as I often do.
Which leaves Second Thought a bit redundant at the moment. The Second Thought stuff is always an idea which I'm compelled to create, something which needs doing, and at times it can be a bit of a slog. And with all the shit that's happened this year, the whole thing was getting me down a bit. The concepts I'm working on in that department are pretty morbid, so I'm giving it a break. The stuff I'm doing with Claire is so joyous and celebratory and music for the love of it that I don't need much else at the moment. So that's darn happy.
I'm playing bass for my mate Liam at an open mic night. Hopefully be getting a bass for Christmas, as it's a darn sight more fun to
mess around with than a normal guitar (unless I have a hundred FX pedals).
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p.s. An Ending (Ascent) by Brian Eno is probably the greatest piece of pure electronic music ever recorded.
