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Recording with the Collective

Thanks to Mr Coggins, we kicked off a loungeroom project. Rhythm beds for six songs laid down. Very much back to our loungeroom roots.

Our first two albums were recorded at the eponymously named 'Front Room Studios'.

I dont think 'smoke on horizon' worked in the studio. I am alone (so far) in this assessment. I'm right tho'. It's gonna need to be 'live'. Devil's preacher is still hmmm....as these are only rhythm beds it is early days indeed.

I reminded Mr Wizard that we had recorded the first album before doing a gig. Since then, we have grown used to running the songs 'live', first. Allowing them to develop.

With No Gigs,thanks to COVID, we are in a different frame of reference.

The meeting of easy access to pro level recording is in our favour.

Mixing it? Releasing it? All the old paradigms?

We make stuff. We gonna make stuff. Like it?

help us make it:

paypal.me/stormcellarband

There's work to do, expect some website changes soon. It's the future for real.

merry xmas 2020

Merry Xmas to all our mates, here's a free download of a live cut of company of a friend, from your friends in the stormcellar collective. http://bit.ly/scc-xmas-2020!

On again. off again and new schedules

With COVID popping up and down, booking gigs has been...well...It will remain erratic for some time.

Meanwhile...

We're now back onto a schedule for the next streaming show (Yay!) and....New Recording!

Going back to our roots, it's time for some truly lounge room recording. Also thanks to Coggers, we have some Downtime recordings to consider as well.

The next tech things are waiting in the wings too.

'Quiet' may not betoken 'inactive' :) We need to surf the conditions, when we can we do, when we can't, we chill.

Ah a sad sad note.

Farewell Page. You were a totally awesome wonderful woman. COVID is no joke. You will be sorely missed and we are damn glad to have made your acquaintance.

Bugger. 2020. Wow.

Zuck you facebook.

Cross post via our FB account.

Sue K. tells me our posts have dropped out of her feed! BOO Facebook!

We don't pay $14-$35 everytime we make a post.

As a result, 'magically' our posts don't appear to come up in peoples feeds as much as they used to...wow! Go figure.

Also, as we're not a political campaign or a foreign intelligence service, our traffic may be 'de-prioritised'.

COMRADES! Conspiracy theorists! We must....ah pfftt.

If a tree falls inthe forest, and I dont post about it on FB, the tree and me, still exist.

www.stormcellar.com.au is where I post a lot of stuff. But it tends to be less spur of the moment. Mobile apps for blogging, like FB are useful.

We've found that FB have been slowing/shaping or diminishing our stuff for a while. As we're content providers and our 'making of' content is here, free, we figure we do not need to pay FB while we provide them with an 'entertainment/content' service.

They call it advertising. I call it bait and switch, and some form of attempted return to 20th century media control. Except worse.

We pay to work.

You are our friends, they want to charge me to make sure you see our stuff. Like it's a phone call charge circa 1990. Or a postal fee for a letter.

Stormcellar and Facebook have a fundamental disagreement on our relationship.

We think they're a filing cabinet

They behave as if they're in charge of the world, because, here, they are.

They wish to be called a platform and yet they're not passive.

They are a publisher who demands payment for the ability to communicate.

Location Scouting, Development, Calendars

Did some location scouting this week. Ths pre production on this video clip has been long and I am now ready to just do it and the script be damned.

That's been a factor of the stuff we have made over the years, sometimes it's ok to abandon the original idea and make what you can. Not being able to shoot the vids as I had intended has reduced the number I have made...and increased the randomness of the clips I have made.

When something cool turns up, great, do it.

Dion is still keen on trying the slightly more complex narrative approach of the existing idea. Ben at the Commeda has basically shown that we don't exactly 'film' them so much as we start filming and then they do what they do.

Getting the ideal filming location has so far eluded me. Figuring out how to translate from the original idea to the practical 'here, do it with this' is on my mind.

I'm also distracted, happily, by new work.

I've been listening at some length to FOTB Terry Lyndon, I think he has a heck of a turn of phrase. Mr Wizard has lent some bass to his recent work and Terry is pumping material out.

By and large most of our muso mates have been productive in this strange time. And so with us too, and a good thing that is.

I am not sure that the world, even in our small, limited section of it, will ever go back to the way things were before Covid.

In some measure, that may be a good thing.

Everything that lives, changes. Nothing stays the same.

Australia is entering that end of year twilight - yet the competing force to burst out from 9 long months of confinement is upon us, at a time where risks still wait, and we exist here in this pacific bubble of safety.

As I am in no way capable of making sense of any of the 'gestures broadly at everything', I can look forward to completing work we have in the wings, starting new stuff and with luck, some shows out in the wild, soon.

Also: Thanks to Hugo. The Townie's facebook page AI didnt update the calendar but there are no stormcellar shows there until further notice, thanks to ...COVID.

swings and roundabouts

A few steps forward and a few back.

Videoclip scheduling is yet incomplete. Location for the clip is yet to be determined.

Song development continues.

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