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I came so very close to getting the next project started yester/to/day.

Gear?

Check.

Mick P was standing by to do location sound, and then....

I was able to get several factors simultaneously, but not quite put it all together.

Of course you know what that means.

I don't quite know why, but I am completely stoked to be doing this new project.

OH! It has a working title! Dust/Dusk/Drums/Darkness. I'll bang on about it in depth later. Suffice to say, yay, make stuff. Fun.

Notes on 461

Dave has a fine high register and stepped up for 45 when the solo act didn't front. Far out.

RESPECT THE DAVE. I hope he'll come sing with us.

Thanks to all the folks who joined us for the night, shout outs to Ross for visiting with us.

Also a shout out to the facial hair on Steve J, what loves has a man for his daughter's hair dressing career than to let her mess with his facial fur.

Ah, and lastly but but not leastly:

When you're out at a gig, Don't Be  A Dick. 

Seriously.

We have the love for a lot of different people, some of whom get unfairly judged for who they associate with and what they wear.

When we say we're your friends in the stormcellar, we actually mean it. All we care about is how you treat others, that's about it.

How you get on with the rest of your life is not our business :-).

But if you do stuff that's not cool to others, when we're present, we're going to say something or do something.

Because: How you treat others matters.

If you came to a show, had a medical problem, we'd stop the show, call for help, do what was right.

When you come out to the show, you do what's right too. That's the covenant between friends.

Keep it kind.It just makes sense.

All are welcome, but each are respected, that's how this works, that's the cost of entry.

It's hard to write this stuff and not sound preachy, but f--k it, it's my damn blog, and I'm going to clue you in, simply.

If it the behaviour wouldn't fly, in my living room, it won't fly at our show. No more, no less than I'd do in your lounge room.

Humans, we're complex.

Lots of love.

Yay. 10/13.

Theo's put out a proposed order, I've got art, we're almost there.

A few tweaks to make. I've had no luck coming up with something for the middle of 'how it feels to win'.

Well I have but it's all been Blah.

Spoken word? Said everything I wanted to say in the lyrics.

Poetry? Asked Rick. Nah, Rick wants me to do my bloody job :-) No letting me off the hook. Bugger.

SoundFX? Pink Floyd beat you to it. Rosie gave me some interesting samples but despite my attempts and Clever Sampling, it turned out a bit naff.

So I'm sussing out some other possibilities. 

Meanwhile I'm trying to get the first recording day organised for the next project. Might be as soon as Sunday. Oh yeah Happy Easter.

Right.

Got a show tonight so I'm off.

Woot.

Did you know that over the last 10 years we have uploaded 700+ different youtubes - not including the live streams, vids to FB and Vimeo and....(sigh)

I've still got a bunch of scripted clips for songs and a whole bunch of ideas that I have....let go of :-)

The boys still don't like appearing in the clips. Mr Wizard thinks only Live Performances count, watching us Mime the songs seems....pointless?

I dunno.

I've always tried to tell a story within the clips, and I thought we might be one of the rare bands where the guy who writes the lyrics, makes the clips.

But as I don't always get to make what I want...hang on...let me rephrase - as it is not viable to have 30 Foot Dragons in EVERY scene (awwww),

Budget limitations have encouraged us to be more creative.

As we continue to celebrate Year 10 in the Stormcellar by Making More Stuff, and after a pretty decent bit of fun on Reddit, I've put the word out, looking for people to try their hand at a clip, or send me some footage to make one with, inspired by one of our songs.

It could be brilliant, it could be 'alternative brilliant'

I might try posting the scripts for some of the unmade clips as well.

Who knows how this will end? But it's going to be fun finding out.

A shout out to the ANONS who have volunteered so far. 

Message me via the contact form here if you want in on the fun. Pick a song, shoot some footage, send it to me via dropbox or something and I'll use it in a clip, or make one yourself and show me what you did. I'm having all the fun! You have a computer, a camera and an imagination. Join in if you feel like it. Or not! We accept Random here.

9:30pm start, free entry, support band, Sat 15th April, Hawkesbury Hotel, Windsor.

By the time I'm done with the title I'm pretty much done.

Thanks to all the folks who joined us at The Bunker.

Getting a parking spot in Coogee is no joke.

We had some very special guests with us at the start of the night, Alex and his friends. That pretty much put paid to any thought we had of opening Fast & Loud. Suits me just fine, and they danced, so that worked.

We did a long set, something we've been training up to.

Mr Wizard requested mercy.

Computer Says No. (actually it was me) Ming the Merciless.

2 hours 45 minutes straight. Heh.

The gang of 4 became the gang of eight, we had a mate from our days at the Royal, Ms Sue, and a whole bunch of regular cellar dwellers.

Thanks for coming out.

I'm bored now and want new songs. Hurry up guys.

Site Mods

Every year and a bit, I update the site a bit to suit my new SHINY THING!! SHINY!!

err..

Ok so we Mobilised the site a way back, we were early integrators of youtube stuff and externally hosted things.

I'm still not buying into every form of social media and I know I have ranted before about ...anyway...

I'm looking for a way to integrate our stuff better, to do the mobile blogging we use FB for and to have things work well for mobiles.

I've been backgrounding this for a while and testing some modules. I think they're ready to try.

Expect Fails. We don't truck with 'offline safe sandbox testing'. Nope. I load stuff up live, blow it up, unload stuff, try and fix it and pray a lot.

Yes, Jesus is a Dev.

Break it, fix it, do stuff.

It's likely to happen again soon. 

EPIC LIST

The EPIC list continues!

We did a quick snapshot of the things we'd like to try and we're trying a few.

I've reached out for some Video Help for the first time. We'll see what happens.

Midwest Triptych

With 'Defiance' just about ready to come out, we gave some thought and discussion during long drives to what the 'Mid West Triptych' is.

Each of the album is stand alone, but putting it together as a single piece was also under consideration.

Hell yeah.

So in addition to releasing Defiance, we'll also work on a combined release. Maybe we'll add tracks. Maybe we'll do it on video.

Hmmm...at the very least I think it'll be a digital audio package. So there you have it. All those long drives give thinking time.

Oh yeah, also a Boat.

Captain Sam, Friend of the Band, Video Clip Star and Legendary Bloke is working with some mates on a refit of an old fishing boat.

We're going to get some Atmos and some live sound action for one of our next projects, Dust.

Also gig this week.

Crikey I have to do art. Back later.