Stormcellar Band Website
Stormcellar Band Website
KC Gold is still spinnin' out there.
Shout outs to Smokestack Lightnin', KCUT, CFRO-FM and WQLN and locally to all the Australian Blues & Roots DJ's who've kept it in the chart for 4 months.
I've been considering doing this for a while. We've been hosting all our vids up on youtube for years. I did a quick count. 690 so far.
That doesn't include all the stuff we've live blogged to FB.
Active little bunch we is.
Anyway, I recently sent our merch section off to CD baby as a direct link for Downloads. People tend to buy CD's at live shows but other than that, direct download is exceeding CD's.
So for the time being I'm trying the diversion for Merch and what the heck, let's do it for vids.
From random stuff to vids from the making of albums, touring, adverts, it's all hosted up there.
So there you go.
Yeah that's right. that's how I get down in down time. Make big think.
You ought to see my Large Blank Paper notebook, picked up from the cheap knock off shop. It's great. And now filled with big thinky thoughts. Diagrams. It was really reasonably priced. The notebook that is, not the thoughts.
The paper's radioactive but the thoughts shine like stolen gold.
How we doing dodging the pitfalls of this level Indy?
I've been reading up on Chaos for some time. I'm one of those folks who wishes Maths Was Easy so I could get a better grasp on things. I make do with far clumsier tools and a chipper attitude :-)
We're so connected to the folks around us that we feel it when the ocean ripples. It's good to be plankton. So calm. Looking at the stars. OH CRAP A WHALE!
Ok I digress. But I'm only working symbolically here. Work with me. It's confusing but amusing and face it that's why you're here. We're fun.
No band is an island (ha!) and we're writing songs from the environment we're in. Yay.
Welcome to the Interregnum.
If I was Nostradamus, I'd add a paypal link and then type some random crap up. What the heck lets give it a shot.
The pool between two tides
the old gods fall
my feet are cold
no hang on that's a bad haiku.
Hmm.
The concept of State Change is manifest in a lot of different interconnected ways. Seasonal change, political transition, technological change (I won't argue advancement lol). (EDIT - I also ought to add, the passing of so many of the Gods of music who were foundational to modern music, RIP George Michael today).
We've had a month of down time and I'm getting reminders from Social Media not to neglect our Facebooking and Twittering! We might miss out on somebodys attention because OMG they have a life! NOO! Lookatmelookatme..(sigh)
We're a band, so there are a list of different website and social media we're encouraged to join/participate in/provide constant free content to in order to...um...err...get the same benefit as Ye Olde Advertisements from the 20th Century.
My skills are so Ninja I backed Myspace over FB so any observations I make are...questionable.
Nonetheless, we've had a concept inside the band for many years, that 'social media is the echo'.
I fear that us Muso's are encouraged to put a lot of resources into Online stuff that doesn't actually work, but gives us a Red Sticker of Encouragement.
As time has gone on, those self same New Media that were once so welcoming have started to 'Monetise' access.
Paying for advertising is one thing, but charging you to interact with your greater social group is kind of predatory.
Our homepage blog came into being before our FB page.
Why? Cos we're OG, homeboy. Original Geeksters. You bring your 300bps and I pull out my trailblazer. Word. So we've been online a while, let's just say.
This site and our social media play two different but connected functions.
Here, we are only limited by our manners and by my willingness to get my Nerd On and Tech Up.
We use Social Media for travel blogging, it's easier (technology wise) to mobile blog to FB. Yeah I can do it here but no. This site is more about where our head is at.
To paraphrase David Byrne, when we have nothing to say, our lips are sealed.
I wonder if we escaped legacy media that seemed to feed on anxiety to sell soap, only to change to another system using fear of missing out, fear of not getting attention to get us to constantly feed them like cuckoos.
I'm not dismissing Social Media, we'll still use it, when it appeals, but it's not a garden to be grown and prized, it's a frickin' tamagotchi.
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We truly are in the interregnum between the dissolution of the legacy media system and the emergence of the new, but perhaps it's more accurate to say that even in the Change State of the web, it's time for, yep, more change.
Follow us on Facebook, or Twitter, or not. Better yet, go and have a life. Write a song. Come to a show!
When we have something that requires more than 144 characters to make sense of, we'll be here.
I started to do that 'gratitude list' thing and as the list lengthened, it occurred to me that 2016 has been good to us. Go figure.
It's only been a year since DC toured OZ with us, only 3 months since we did our 4th US tour. We released our 8th album. Recorded our 9th. Wrote new songs towards a 10th. See what I mean?
It has been a privilege to get to do what we do, and for me, to be in the company I have found myself in.
2017 will be our 10th anniversary year and we still like one another. In the mythos of Bands, that alone counts as miraculous :-)
We have many people to be grateful to this year. Mac, AJ, Mr Jones(s), Mo, our Cellar Dwellers and all the folks who have passed us carefully from hand to hand.
Being grateful for the good we encounter has not diminished our awareness of the worst 2016 has offered. Yet we have hope.
That hope includes that you and yours, wherever you may be, get a moment of peace as this year ends, and that when the future continues, it opens kindly.
Cheers to V. for alerting us to the Calendar Fail and cheers to Craig at Hill Range for some tech support. This site's been running almost a decade now, with regular rebuilds for amusement and theoretical improvements.
Most of the time this involves breaking things.
Less often it involves fixing things that break themselves.
It's an entropic universe. I can deal with it.
Whilst we careen I might have a go at some more tweaks and stuff.
Expect things to go wrong and you'll only ever be pleasantly surprised!
Hiya!
Giving a big shout out & saying merci to the Biker St Radio Show in France.
Melanie (and earlier: Cesar) have been supporters of ours for a few years now. Just over a year ago, when the terrible events in Battaclan took place they put together a show in tribute and included Bloomington from our Everywhere Feels Like Home album. I was deeply moved that something we wrote fit the bill.
Since then Cesar has retired and the wonderful Melanie has continued the show. Over the last three episodes the show has included some more of our songs. Here are the links and what songs were in which show.
Merci beaucoup, Melanie – I hope all is well.
Cheers,
Michael (Rosie)