Stormcellar Band Website
Stormcellar Band Website
Into each life a little rain must fall, fair enough.
Some days the headlines are sadder than others.
This weekend we'll be playing music, in a gorgeous place. A place where the drive to get there is a battery recharge moment for me. Bald grassed rocky hills up from the gullies where the river collects.
I'll feel more grateful than usual for being able to do it.
Join us if you're near.
Double negatives in English are puzzling.
We're not making an album right now. We just have an amount of songs, equivalent to an album's worth, that we've recorded/are recording.
Why? The album is dead. Long live the single.
Rolling stone says:
Oh what the? the single is dead too?
Rolling stone, same article:
Digital album sales are down 11.7 percent for the year, and à la carte downloads are down another 12.8 percent according to Billboard. Illegal downloading has no doubt eroded much of those digital sales, but it’s the emergence of legal streaming sites like Spotify and Pandora that has also chipped away at overall sales. Taylor Swift's "Shake It Off" had 544,000 digital sales this week partly because the track isn'tavailable on Spotify, forcing fans to download the song (or watch it on YouTube, where it has already accrued 46 million views).
Do humans want new music? My guess is yes.
Will they pay for it?.
Maybe.
Sometimes.
When they feel like it.
You heard it here first.
All sales are voluntary.
Meanwhile, we can't spend too much time worrying about the state of the disrupted market.
We have new songs to record!
just don't call it an album :-)
WOOHOO!! We've been Pirated! ARR! Whilst googling reviews of our album for my next Visa application I found out we're on a torrent! Booo!! and YAY! We matter enough to be pirated! boo! Yay! BOO!!! YAAY!!! The Curious Assembly's out on a torrent. BOO!!
I feel a little conflicted right now.
Howdy Foks.
Regular readers know the scoop, when the posts are quiet, we're busy Doing Stuff.
I'm in pre production for the EFLH night and I'm reviewing colours, videos, images and all sorts of stuff to synchronise with the live performance and other elements.
Like I said, if you miss this night you'll, err, well, um, miss the night and we're working our Tushies off to make it a truly wonderful evening. May 14. go get some tickets now. https://www.stickytickets.com.au/24279/stormcellar_%40_django_bar.aspx
Meanwhile, this week we're working on Live Performance Elements and the programming of the system that will control the motorised lighting.
That raises the question - what colour is that song?
Trying to match the 'feeling' of the song to colours and then program the little devices that will make the pretty lights, is quite a job.
Fortunately for us we have a captive technology Gnome. Unfortunately, that's me.
I'm gonna be reading the manual for this thing for days.
Behold! Ye Prophecy sort of be Coming True-Eth! Yea verily was it foretold that Original Australian music shall return, the once and future king. Rumours swirl of a mainstream inner city venue now dedicating itself to Original Music on Weekends. Such signs! Such Omens! The roadie of the lake emerges, the mystical Guitar named 'Extremelylongsolo' hath returned and lo were the punters kind of impressed, what with the whole mystical Arthurian trip that the writer of this post was on. And yea was it considered 'cute', and did they then think 'hey, maybe I should go out and like see some new stuff' and yea it was all good. A-moo. Woof!
Yay we're gonna go back to Oberon!
This coming Saturday night, 28 march, we make the trek across the Blue Mountains to the spectacular undiscovered country at the foot of the mountains.
We love playing at the Oberon RSL. The drive alone is worth it :-)
Free entry, from 8:30 saturday night.