A shout out to Rich on The Eagle 96.7FM in Rockford
Rich emailed me to let me know he's been spinning Dirty Work on his sunday morning show.
Cheers Rich, thanks for sending us out over the ether waves :-)
Rich emailed me to let me know he's been spinning Dirty Work on his sunday morning show.
Cheers Rich, thanks for sending us out over the ether waves :-)
Mr Wizard and M'self here want to to send a shout out to our very own site contributor m'sieur Terry A. Lyndon. Bet you didnt know that in addition to being quite the illustrator, he's quite the arranger of beautiful melodic, 'alt' pop sort of stuff.
Mr wizard digs it for the musicality, I dig it because Terry's got a sharp sharp acid etched wit. I liked his phrasing so much that I'm pretty sure it's infected at least one of our own songs :-)
I still dig his line 'I wanna get it, but I just don't get it'. Yeah it looks simple but it ain't.
Terry has recently remastered some previous tracks and there's a new EP in the works.
Another undiscovered Australian Gem.
YAAAWN...omg what hour is this? Is this...when...normal people are...getting up?
Ye gods. Oh crap. I have to get up too.
You know that thing about bands having street teams and layers of management? Well not so much. Because: new music business (and raspberry's to you matey).
In between renting vans and checking emails at 3am (local Sydney time) the night slips away and I'm linked to the US midwest once more by technology.
Of course, the people I speak to are in daylight. They're rational. they had coffee. Lunch. found a parking spot.
I'm crawling through the intertubes of the web via Skype, ever so gently hallucinating from being awake at a weird hour. I worry that I am coming across a little....strangely
Here comes the dawn. Vegemite toast and Tea are the order of business.
Oh yeah, and Danny wants a new song. That's cool, we wrote a new one for him, but now he wants a duet with DC as well. Yikes.
Not too sachharine, something with a nice melody, where their voices will work well together. Hmmm....
Should I reconsider agreeing to things at 4:30am? Have we bitten off more than we can chew?
What are we, the brill building?
It's Dawn and I am powered by Yeast Extract and Irish Breakfast Tea!
They should probably take the keyboard away from me rght about now.zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Hi Sliders. Sydney Guitar Setups came through for me again. We got screwed on excess baggage coming back from the US on our first tour, so on our 2nd tour we worked out we could tape and seal two guitars together and treat it like Overseize baggage but then the airline didnt like us doing that on the internal flight and their rules on guitar carrying are 'discretionary' so it can go wrong.
In steps my man Anthony and Sydney Guitar Setups with a double case for my SG's. There's some rule about Linear Length where the airline add all the length dimensions and divide it by We Want You To Pay Extra so we'll see how this goes but it's looking good so far.
See what you learn by 3rd tour? Now I need a double mandolin case.
Keep on slidin'!
Mr Wizard.
Howdy Folks. in the 'Cellar working on new work.
6 hours later still at it.
But our mates at Troy Horse lay on Tea and Coffee :-)
The boys are working hard.
Howdy Folks.
I'd like to sum up my feelings on Tour Planning.
and my personal feelings on organisation and logistics
But this is the age of the DIY musician and what's got to be done, has got to be done by us.
Big ups to Rosie for his work on our 3rd US tour.
As per usual, we've been pretty quiet about what were doing because:
a) it's highly variable
b) we're highly variable (well, maybe just me)
c) Mentioning it could be viewed as Bigging Ourselves Up
in fact, the correct, "Baggy Green' approach to Australian Behaviour is to run everything through the Sir Donald Bradman flowchart, as endorsed by the inner-cricket-player aspect of our culture.
For the benefit of our Overseas Readers, the best Australian heroes are understated but excel with the bat. Or Bat Equivalent, whatever that may be. If we wish to emulate our cultural icons, we are well advised to emulate their lack of Exclamatory Self Promotion
This is one of the many cultural differences between AUS and the US, some of which will feature in my thinking as we leave our shores (temporarily, don't worry Immigration), things such as
Your Dollar
our dollar
your leader
Our leader
(seriously guys that's our actual PM, not a Grindr pic)
Our Donald - understated, noble, a gentlemen
Your Donald.
Potential Leader of a future Conservative Government
Wanna swap for the dude in Budgie Smugglers?
Contact details on the side here Mr Trump, look forward to receiving your call.
Meanwhile, back to tour stuff.