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For real, all our shit is up there. I'm kinda stoked. It makes it easier to share!

All you do is go to youtube, type in stormcellar + song name and voila! It's amazing. The automated robots go grab the album cover and whack the song on it.

With the new album out, we have around 140 tracks out there, including stuff we never made a video clip for, either because we didn't have the resources to do it justice or we didn't get around to it yet.

Anyway, the upshot is...VIDEOS!!! I mean they're just the album cover with the song but still, easy to share.

Yesterday I generated clips for Fool for you, Island Time, Glenrowan, all sorts of stuff that never made it to proper videos. After making 700+ videos for the band, it's nice to have some help.

It sparks the question, what is a music video anyway? Sell the band twerking? Say our name a lot? Be the protagonists in our own mini movies? (makes me think of Sting's videoclip for Fortress around your heart - great song, great artist, let's just say the video hasn't aged well imho).

Youtube is the new radio, advertising supported media. Wow the more things change huh?

I'll still make the videos as often as I can, that's part of my thing, but I am glad to see all our stuff so easy to reach.

Meanwhile, I may take the opportunity to share some of the stuff from the back catalogue.

Just learned that Peter B Lowry, true gentleman of the blues has joined the Great Jam in the Sky. Our condolences to his wife and son, we were greatly honoured by Pete's enthusiasm for our work. VALE Pete Lowry.

Bah Humbug. So I spend ages/articles worth of 'this ain't done yet' and then pushing to hit a deadline aaaand....

Now I am completely taking advantage of the slow down to...keep mixing. 

Yeah. I took some time away from the listening, as wiser ears have oft counselled me, and have come back to it with teeeny teeny tweaks and more tweaks.

You will be able to colour me surprised if we ever make anything quite the same way as this . Oh crap. That kinda resonated in a 'lol haha' way with the universe around me. Heck, I thought I was done mixing.

I am reminded of that saying, a poem is never finished, merely abandoned.

Not Live?

Theo noted unless we get quite a  few guests this won't be reproduced on stage the same way as the album.

I wasn't really concerned with being able to re-produce it exactly, live. I mean, this has been "OOH LOOK BUTTONS' as a mixing style. Being stuck at home during covid with moderate internet speeds and a plucky attitude has led to some curious choices.

Yeah Theo has said this is the most out there stuff since Curious Assembly. Sort of like Offspring of Curious Assembly.



Marketing department needs more time as well I think.

Subsequent to having the toys taken away from me before I issue yet another mix, videos?

Hmm.

I dunno, I am kinda tempted to knock it down and rebuild. Crikey this thing has been going since 2008.

Got it back online and yet...Hmmm....

Hmmm....

Well we're waiting again. Sort of.

Taking care of the djembe took longer than expected and so we missed the tides, so to speak, for mastering. Instead, AJ's still mixing 'does the heart good' and I am due to...er...um....'fix' one other song.

But that's it. Fairly sure.

Now as we consider the mastering I might be doing a few more tweaks but that's it. Surely.



We're close tho'. Yay.