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Arr! Another luverly night in Bondi. The Royal has become another one of our homes in town, we're even starting to do some Sundays there, as of next week :-)

There was much love at the Royal last night. Shout outs to Rosanna, Kyle and Melissa, Jude, our Irish Visitors, the Drink Ninja (dude you know who you are) and the regulars and randoms of the Royal.

The last time we played there, I was trying out some new lights and the total workload got a bit much for me, so I wised up and got some help. Thanks Rich!

I even had enough time to take a snap of the boys as they were setting up.

I replaced the old, weird, non standrd DMX lights with some new ones and brilliantly set them to AUTO (it's gneius ideas like that one that earn me the big bucks, kids. Pure gneius)

I'd show you some pics but I didn't auto adjust the camera on my phone so everything is as dark as @^*# and unuseable

Genius.

Anyway.

So yes, last night was all about finding solutions to your production problems.

Lighting? Check. 

Sound Stuff? Check.

What about that that wonky bar stool that I used to hold up my Harp Master 3000(tm, patent pending in Botswana) Harmonica Case, that failed and sent everything flying at a few recent gigs?

Well forget that, cos here at MJEB labs we are all about the tech! Presenting!

Theo has come to my rescue with his Floor Tom Case...err...I mean, a high precision polymer cylinder with reinforced Harp Case-Stand Interface (a lid) and ergonomic positional stabiliser (a flat base and it's not too short) and anti gravity properties (it stops the case from falling to the floor).

Right. There you have it and that about wraps it up.

Oh. Sorry? How did the gig go. Great. Just fine. We've introduced a new slipstream set list using another MJEB lab patented algorthym..igloorithm...aortsy..wibbl....A new thing we do with the setlist which makes it go fast. Vroom. The new songs are developing nicely, 'give me something I want' is still catchy, I'm digging 'twice shy girl' (all glorious 8 minutes of it) and I got a round of applause for playing Amazing Grace. Neat O.

Before I forget, big props to Rosie for eating the logistical Pie last night with the Van pickup and return. (Carl, come back!! We miss you and the van dude! Settle your lawsuits, ditch the mail order brides, come back and carry our stufff!)

Back at the Royal this Sunday 28th :-)

Howdy Folks. Almost finished the new video, took a moment to do some nice new art featuring our band motto, Nos Fugere  I regoogled, that should be: Nos Volare Sicut Sacculum Cubitis... I'll have to adjust the art at some point

Kicks off at 8:30, see you there, elbows and all.

I've been in videoclip hell for the last week trying to do a 'simple' clip. 

Unfortunately, my private test audiences responded to initial samples with 'awww....why aren't there more shiny things in this clip' 

I tried to point out that I have been attempting clips with more 'stuff' for months and so far hadn't triumphed, so I was rather hopeful that this simple idea would work.

Nope.

To do a simple clip you need a simple, yet brilliant, idea. 

Ok, simple I got.

The next bit is somewhat harder.

ARRGGGH!!!!

(sigh)

At the Royal Hotel in Bondi, this Saturday night from 8:30

BTW this artwork has nothing to do with the gig but what the heck, it's what I got.

With big thanks to Michael Lynch at Shoehorse Sound, Dirty Work is back from Mastering.

We're releasing 3 versions - an instrumental, the full version and a radio edit with a shortened ending.

Ok, so what gives?

Well, the short answer is that we've reset the lyrics to Steely Dan's 'Dirty Work' from the 1972 album 'Can't buy a thrill' to a new rockier melody.

The music in this new version is ours but the words are theirs, and that can create a copyright nightmare that only lawyers can solve and I am given to understand that Mess'rs Fagen and Becker (love you guys) don't mess around..

I mean, look what they wrote when You Me & Dupree came out and they thought Owen Wilson was ripping them off - even worse, they wrote to his BROTHER. FFS.

Click here for the full text http://www.steelydan.com/heyluke.html

In our case, the best we could think of was to release the instrumental version under our copyright and then release the versions with lyrics as a 'cover'.

The last few tracks we have released in the Curious Assembly project have been up on this site for free ( go on search for'em, they're here if you know their names) but obv with a cover we can't do the same thing, except for the instrumental version.

Here's the version that shouldn't get us in trouble:

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and for comparison, here is the original