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Banzai For Sale! For Christmas! For Cheap!

December 3rd, 2009 · 4 Comments · Geek, Music, New Recordings, News

So, here we are. It’s coming up to Christmas and you’re thinking, ‘I just can’t think of what to get my Mum and Dad/Nephew/Friend/Pet/etc”. Well, fear not, my friends, for I have the answer. Three good, slightly dandruff-ridden, socially afflicted friends of mine have just realeased their debut album. It’s called ‘We Are The Banzai [...]

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Gear lust, gigs, videos, 80s style jogging, and the Clangers.

September 26th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Gigs, Concerts, Events, Guitar, Music, News, Solo Album

Guten Tag.
Just got back from a massive European tour of three whole days with good friends Sebastiaan Cornellisen and Frans Vollink. First stop was Bremen in Germany and a short tour of the city courtesy of our fine host, Helge. Bremen has the Beck’s factory. Look, here it is.

So there’s the origin of joy and [...]

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New Webmeister

August 1st, 2009 · 4 Comments · News

Great news!
After months of wrangling with my website, editing CSS, poring over XHTML, digital image manipulation, search engine optimisation, plug-in conflicts, and the like. I now have a new Webmaster!
He goes by the name of Bill. But, being modern, he prefers to be known as ‘Webmeister Bill’. Since his kind offer to take over the [...]

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The Appliance of Science

July 20th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Guitar, New Recordings, News

Went to the science museum last week. Saw some valves. Here’s a picture.

There’s nothing more to it than that really.
What else? Well, last Monday and Tuesday was made excellent by recording some bass and drums for my album. Rob Mullarkey played the bass and Martyn Kaine played the drums. I had them attack three tunes [...]

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Day 1 – Learning By Doing

June 19th, 2009 · No Comments · Music, News, Solo Album

Today marks the first day of a month of working on my album. Here’s what I got from day 1.
First step was to trot over to Digital Village to buy some AKG 414s, or maybe a pair of 214s and a ribbon mic… But, I was given a left turn by the prospect of trying [...]

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Web Site Mashing

May 15th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Geek, Guitar, Music, New Recordings, News, Solo Album

Hello there. My blog and my web site are in the process of being mashed together. I’m trying to figure out how to edit the CSS so I can put the pics that used to be on the old site on the pages of the new one at the top of the screen and not [...]

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