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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?

Back on Deck sat night. I'd post the poster but it went bung.

Bugger.

We'll be at the gig tho'

'Ray!

Talk about putting a positive spin on it. My new(ish) HDD with some important data (recent tour videos etc) went Kerplooie and El Backup No Worko.

Thus I can either spend a bootload on data recovery (thinking about it) or just accept my digital spanking, go 'meh' and move on.

That would mean I wont have to blog the last bunch of stuiff cos I've been offloading the video cam into the dud drive.

Woohoo! Holidaze!

For thinking on.

Howdy folks.

I'm in need of a few days rest and it's been enforced by my PC going berserk. (sigh) I'm going to be fixing this for the next few days so it'll be quiet time.

Pics and blogs will flow after some HDD recovery action :-(

Firstly though big thanks to Nancy and Val for making the tour happen, and a big thank you to Bill and Rosie for above and beyond the call of duty. Mostly that means rescuing me when I break down.

We have a show this week in Thirroul. I'd post the poster but...back to hard drive recovery.

Did I mention I saw a giant fibreglass banana and a fibreglass bee hive?

Also a lot of stunning NSW countryside. Lakes, oceans, rivers, trees, grass, oyster leases, boats, bridges, kangaroos, sunsets, bull bars, highway patrol cars, camper vans and devonshire teas. And lots of gas stations.

Our gi normous 4WD hire car with QLD numberplates scared the other motorists away from us each time we changed lanes, as if we were a lumbering Rhino. Seriosuly. I think global warming is a small price to pay for that moment of diesel powered Man Fury I enjoyed, tooling up the highway with an engine grunting like a grumbly sumo.

This has been quite the unexpected journey for us musical hobbits who, quite frankly, like a cup of tea and lie down most of the time.

I shall be about posting, chronologically, yet more tidbits from whats been happening. It has been so much the capture has overpowered the reporting. We must add more staff. I'd ask my people to get on it but I am my people and I'm tuckered out. Night.