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In keeping with our slightly French theme, Le Howdy, mes amis.

We played our first gig out at the Colonial Hotel in Werrington on Saturday. Shout outs to Sharron, Undies, Andrew, Jacob FM Cass, the Fitzgerald Mafia and all the folks who spent the evening with us.

I had some left over gear from Jim Finns video shoot on Friday night (see article below) and tried ramping up our production values with some extra lights etc.

Why am I not in the photograph? Who do ya think take's 'em? Lol. We had a great night with some outstanding musical moments as we altered our live set to recharge our batteries. Of course, I still managed to sing 2nd verse first in Southern Belles. I am going to log in to the lyrics section of the site before we start next time, as M Wizard says, just cos you wrote it, don't mean you remember it.

I think we'll be back there again in the new year. I'd blog more but I have another article to write and some lights to return to the hire company...

FINN launched their latest CD 'Bomb the world with kindness' last Friday night and yours truly was there to film it for posterity. 

Jim always wanted to see his name up in lights, so we did it literally.

And for every on stage glory, there's a bunch of behind the scenes work, such as Tomi re-plugging connectors on dozens of power supplies...

Nice work Tomi, his band Bonez were the support act for the night. Nice use of phone whilst completing a task :-)

 

 

Dion and Ant were operating camera, big thanks to Paul McQueen for loan of the Jib.

I'll be editing the footage this week and I'll post a link when it's done. A great gig, a good album and a good night of production. I'm looking forward to seeing how it all comes together in the clip.

Now all I gotta do is make some more for us :-) Lol

Alors! From the land of soft cheeses and strong wines comes news that our new album has entered a chart.

Cesar writes;

Stormcellar is one of the 20 most played band in our "Collectif des radios blues" for the month of november.

 

I'm very glad about it.

Have a nice week...................Cesar

1- Otis GRAND "Blues '65" (MainGate Records)(2012)
2- IMMIGRANTS "Immigrants" (Autoproduction)(2012)
3- Robert CRAY BAND "Nothin but love" (Provogue)(2012)
4- Teresa JAMES & the Rhythm Tramps "Come on home" (Jasi-Lu Records)(2012)
5- MAGIC SLIM "Bad boy" (Dixiefrog/Harmonia Mundi)(2012)
6- MISSISSIPPI HEAT "Delta bound" (Delmark Records)(2012)
7- Beth HART "Bang bang boom boom" (Provogue)(2012)
8- Steve STRONGMAN "A natural fact" (Autoproduction)(2012)
9- Corey LUECK "It ain't easy" (Autoproduction)(2012)
10- Bettye LAVETTE "Thankful n' toughtful" (Anti Inc.)(2012)
11- Benny TURNER "A tribute to my brother Freddie King" (King "B" Records)(2011)
12- Tas CRU "Tired of bluesmen cryin'" (Crustee Tees Records)(2012)
13- THE NO REFUND BAND "The No Refund Band" (Autoproduction)(2012)
14- Ben RACINE BAND "One of a kind" (Iguane Records)(2012)
15- Fred CHAPELLIER "Electric fingers" (Dixiefrog/Harmonia Mundi)(2012)
16- Mark KNOPFLER "Privateering" (Mercury Records)(2012)
17- Shemekia COPELAND "33 1/3" (Telarc)(2012)
18- STORMCELLAR "Hired guns & borrowed glory" (Autoproduction)(2012)
19- Hans THEESSINK & Terry EVANS "Delta time" (Blue Groove)(2012)
20- THE BLUESMASTERS "Volume two" (Direct Music Distribution)(2012)

Here is the link.  http://www.collectifradiosblues.com/novembre-2012

Sacre Blues!

Once again I am being offered up as a sacrifice to the Gods of Owed Favours.  We make our videos when my favour bank is sufficient to draw down much needed help from our wonderful Mates In Production. (also when I have an idea we can afford, the pieces line up, yadda yadda)

The only problem is, ya gots to give before ya can receive... Right now I am mid pre-production on a vid for our mates at Finn as repayment for favours owed, which entails me owing favours to three other people, which then I then repay by acting as Camera Op for one of their shoots, and so on, and so on, ad infinitum (have mercy), in order that we can generate sufficient Production Karma that I can request assistance on our next video shoot.

(sigh).

On the plus side, I am getting to play with some neat-o production gear which makes me think of ideas for our next lot of clips...which will then necessitate me accruing yet more favour bank tokens in order to.....Good Grief.

I understand that when you have this thing called' Money' you can use it to purchase 'goods and services'. I think that's quite a novel idea, perhaps we should attempt to locate this 'money'. 

It has also been explained to me that finding a 'Unicorn' is easier than locating 'Money' but once again, the boys at MJEB labs have come up with a brilliant suggestion. We find a Unicorn and then charge 'money' for Unicorn Rides! BRILLIANT!!

It's thinking like this that helped us defeat the Romans.

:-)

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