Via SMH,Photo Nick Moir
Far out huh?
For all our off-shore readers, we're experiencing some freaky cold snap down here in 'temperate' Sydney. The Blue Mountains (west of us) are copping it. Yay for the snow fields, yay for tourism, holy crap I wish we insulated our houses better.
On the plus side I am sitting in sunshine with a cup of tea and blogging. Therefore all is right(ish) with the world.
In the absence of my crashed Storage Drive, the news will be in Text.
DC Tour Finito.
Yay. Cheers.
El Hard Drive Es Muerto
Please no more missives from my geek mates re backups, yes I bow in your masterly presence yadda yadda raspberry. ARGH.
The boys all have bags of photos and videos but face it, they're blogging-impaired. When I get this drive sorted I may or may not do anything with the additional data. You just never know. I'm kinda contrary like that :-)
Backlog of Recordings/New songitis
Whilst we've been otherwise occupied, the song banks have recharged. Forcing new songs into the set terrifies the boys but keeps us on our toes. I especially liked the key change Rosie pulled on me the other night at the start of a brand new one. I wasn't even sure I could hit that note. Terror helped but when I get my hands on him...I mean...I truly enjoyed the unexpected nature of the challenge.
Also worthy of mention was the randomised nature of the song list from Friday night. Good work boys. Improv skills ranked up.
Right so where were we?
'Everywhere feels like home' is still two recordings from completion. Or Is it? I mean, who's in charge anyway? I mean, who says we have to have X amount of songs and then call it an album, I mean who...hang on, apparently that'd be us making those choices.
I'm not so sure about what formats have to do with it anymore. EP's, albums, singles, USB's ye gods... We've been releasing the songs as singles and we still have the 'soundtrack' elements unreleased. Do we split them, combine them, wait, do nothing, join a convent or..
Just continuing making stuff that appeals and figure the rest out later. Brilliant planning.
Lookit all the pretty shiny new stuff
All this new stuff is fun. 'Stopping By' is such a simple cute little ditty that it failed the Mr Wizard Complexity Test (TM, copyright where gnu's roam free) yet we're opening with it. 'Isn't how I wanted it' drives Rosie bonkers and Bill loves it. 'All that's right is beautiful' is still trying to find a key, Mr Wizard has a bunch of new obscura to try and so do I and so does Rosie and...CHAOS!!
MJEB happy time
I love winter, I love the storms. The lightning crashing around us and the thunder rolling recharged my batteries enormously. Yay.
Growth Rings
Every time one of the new songs comes in to the set it disrupts what we''e doing. It's risky. We're trading 8 years worth of crafted road tested crowd pleasers for potential DOOM! DOOOOOOM!!
Yaaay!
It's getting randomer by the day!
More soon! Or maybe. Who knows?