Stormcellar Band Home Page

Howdy Folks.

I'm sprucing up the ol' site, yeah I know, how hard core is that eh? 

Page speed 90% on test, video module rebuilt, google calendar integration still flakey.

Mr Wizard has been complaining about page load times on the Gig Guide and Monte has been at me to optimise my CSS and Minify my...wtf does that even mean. No, don't tell me, please let it remain a mystery. No, seriously.

Professional web people have test sites. I just load crap and see what happens. Whoopee!

If anything stops working, the entire site disappears or everything changes, it's perfectly...AAAAAAAH

Howdy Folks.

Lots happening

Three Stormcellar albums getting airplay across the US, Canada and Oz contemporaneously.

I was gonna say 'simultaneously' but realised that would be 'literally' incorrect, literally.

'Kansas City Gold' enters top 10 in Aus, gets picked up on almost 100 stations in the US, 'Everywhere Feels Like Home' & 'Curious Assembly' picking up airplay in the US on Triple A radio

Congrats to the great bands and DJ's creating a scene on the Australian Blues & Roots Charts . We're in the company of the masters. All hail the Backsliders. Without hearing Jim Conway and the Backsliders support Leo Kottke, I wouldn't be writing this...they're still at it and now we are too LOL.

Meanwhile, the other part of the midwest Triptych 'Everywhere Feels Like Home' is getting a warm welcome on AAA radio across the US. 

Woot!

Cheers To Tom at WBSD, Ray at the Blues Shack on RPPFM and CDR at Mystery Train

Tom did a great interview, you can hear it here: (as soon as I put it up gimme a minute fer chrissake)

Ray talked to Millage and CDR talked to me!

US 2017?

Just got our first offer for a festival in the US in 2017. Oh lord.

Psst - Wanna Start Mixing?

AJ wants to start, and so do we, but we gotta restock the piggy bank. Go buy an album.

Bringing in the new songs

Between KC Gold + SC9, we have an albums worth of stuff to bring in. Oh crap.

Fixing Da Wesbite...wbsite...sbestie. 

Tech Ninja's have been rallied to do more stuff.

Expect some small disasters. Don't like load times? Well, NINJA! YAAA! 

404?

NINJA!

(I disappear in puff of smoke.)

I filmed when I could, in between other jobs :-) 

Late winter/early spring and a drive up the coast to play at one of our favourite outdoor venues?

Yay.

2pm, The Catho, Catherine Hill Bay, Sun 16 Oct.

Mr Wizard has another 5 songs to work on.

Really? Good grief.

Howdy Folks, we're back, waking up close to the correct time and jetlag slipping away. Hurrah.

We've started talking about mixing SC9, heck I've already started artwork. Pretty sure we have a name for the album.

But we're in no rush. Once again, I have the advantage of listening to the mixes as they develop, but there is no rush to release.

Right now, The Curious Assembly, Everywhere Feels Like Home and Kansas City Gold are all getting airplay in the US, Australia, Canada and France!

It's one of the hallmarks of the modern music age that there really are no rules because there really are no firm answers.

It's also fair to say that we may be one of the few bands willing to work across so many 'genre's'. That's either because we don't see the boundaries in the same way or because the boundaries don't really exist. Like Millage said to us, 'there's only two types of music, good and bad'.

The mid west triptych is almost completely realised, three years of writing and recording on and around the tours, willingly embracing the influences from the mid west. As a finished piece, it will span the range of styles we're into, most of which originated in the places we've been playing.

Where to from here? Who knows! I can hazard a guess that the Japanese influence will continue and there has been some talk of other places to visit, other styles to absorb and be influenced by.

At any rate, if you come to a an Oz show in the next while you'll hear new songs that have been recorded but won't be released for a while, and once again, we'll road test brand new creations to see if they flip, flop or fly. That's the fun part. Making stuff!

We have this coming weekend off then we're back at it, with some good shows coming up. The Catho is a stunning place to play and we're greatly looking forward to it, along with a trip to the mountains, the Marrickville Festival (we were calling ourselves the Marrickville Hillbillies in our red F250 on tour lol) and a few other excellent spots.

With a bit of time, I might have a chance to do some editing of video etc from this years US tour, but there is much work to be done so I better crack on with it.

Stay tuned, or come to a show, or both!

 MJEB