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Stormcellar in other Universes, the portal opens again

As the end of the world approached, a rip in the fabric of space-time has allowed us a glimpse of Stormcellar in other universes. I grabbed a few of their album covers and some promo info.

Universe #4400966520

'Stormkjeller'

A Norwegian EDM band inspired by the poems of Tor Ulven. The transmission was a little garbled so I didnt get the band members names. The portal device is interfering with the file transmission so it might take me a few goes to download their music.

Universe #23

Quite close to us I found a Stormcellar that is a Metal band, I grabbed this from their website.

I managed to download some promo stuff, here's what passed through the portal:

'After 7 years establishing themselves as one of Bavarias most progressive schlagermusik acts and headlining the Grossenvomittenbucket fest in Aspenglau in Romania, Sturmkeller were enroute to the Viennese Schnitzleffracktenbluchenfrappenschwarzen festival where a rare opportunity was available for the bands heavy clog influenced face slapping sounds to be recorded live with Andre Rieu, a once in a lifetime event.

Three days after their van mysteriously disappeared from the road between Afterbruchlighstee and Verf, Sturmkeller were discovered in a field of sorghum in Belgium, unable to account for the past three days.

It's at this point where they deserted their knee slapping roots and re-emerged as a psychic metal band singing songs about alien abduction.

Fans of Sturmkellers award winning albums 'Favourite songs for sausages' and 'Favourite songs for sausages: 2 - the Mustard Boogaloo' were surprised and in some instances, infuriated by the radical change in musical direction with the release of 'we were adbucted by aliens on our way to meet Andre Rieu' album which quickly shot to the top of the self reporting charts in Moscow, Idaho.'

I grabbed a fragment of one of their songs but it was too powerful for my amp, which said a few phrases in low german and then committed suicide.

Most interestingly, in every alternate universe so far, we have encountered Andre Rieu. I don't know what this means but I suspect it's important.

I have to go close the portal, Michael Buble also exists in other universes and the version in universe #288383 heard I talked smack about him and has been trying to crawl through for the last hour. I'll post more after we recharge the reactor, I've been feeding it Gibsons all week.

Downtime - Season 1 - Thursday Nights US time, Friday Morning Sydney Time.

Dear US Friends and Cellar Dwellers, we can't fix the chaos but we can give you a time out. Join us on Thursday evenings

Wanna be in the studio audience? Ask a cellar feller.

Blessed fallow week.

After 4 good weeks of firehorse 1, we're gearing up for Season 1. but this week? the smash hit 'we're chillin tf out' and 'asleep on my couch'

the end of the end of the world.

The world goes back to normal
In Five Dock.
Boy racers navigate dropped Micro cars over traffic calming devices
Short buzzing exhortations of gearbox freedom
As they GTA on their way to maccas
Rising and falling between speed humps.
It’s these little signs of the pre pandemic age
Like the return of a cheerful insect
As Australia orders Uber eats, contemplating the return of the footy
And perhaps take a small shudder at thinking of what is outside the distant fortress of our shores.
Anywhere except Kiwi cos they’re cool. Chert cuz.

The return of the Bongo Liberation Front - firehorse departs and what did we learn?

BLF, uh huh, ahuh ahuh.

doot, dweet woop, doo dweet woop.

There are a few KLF fans out there who just sang along with me.

That was the fourth firehorse project and an excellent test to end the pilot with.

Thank you to MC, Fox, Theo, Steve, Steve, Bec, Sam, Simple and all the cellar dwellers who participated.

Soo....what did we learn??

Ahem. In no particular order.

1. I need more XLR inputs. The more people I added, and because we have mic's for everyone to talk through i need more channels.
I am in no hurry to buy any more gear so I am goingto see what clever solution I can come up with.
2. Walk into your heart is great as an acoustic song. Sure we have to work out the middle bits but even as Mr Wizard observed, maybe the way to do it live without all the extra instrumentation from the recording is to simplify it to acoustic.
3. That was fun.
4. My local streaming bandwidth is juuust enough to manage what I am running now.... :(
5. There's still a few leads and cables in our cable gear that need to go. Buzzing. No! Bad Cable!!
6. Facebook is throttling the living shit out of our posts. People are not seeing them or it's taking days. Straight up, FB is pay to play. I don't like it, don't like us being free content providers for a platform that charges us to access the user base we helped to build. Nope nopey nope nope nopers. Yuck.
7. The studio audience was awesome
8. Most of the tech worked. Niiice. Some more minor tweaks
9. We were able to replicate it - yeah thats important. Today a sound driver went bung so we were 5 min late but I was able to fix it because???

TESTING

Yeah its really worthwhile.
10. the songs got a chance to evolve a little with less restrictions. it was nice to do songs we aren't/haven't/won't/don't do in the set, for whatever reason. I also got to break a few rules. Niiiice.
11. we took some good times back during these up and down times. yeah, snatched back a little happy during the pandemic and all this negative stuff in the social and news media. A little happiness doesn't diminish the tragedy of the times, but it may help to bolster your mental immune system.

I'm stoked, this has been a blast and we're looking at what next. There's some good things to try.

The world is a bit freaky deaky, but it's chill down here in the stormcellar. We're doing what we do. Making stuff. Doing things.

You know where to come when you need a time out.