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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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Brick Wall – Revealing The Inner Fossil :)

June 24th, 2009 · 7 Comments · Guitar, Music, Solo Album

Ran into a wall with an idea a while ago. Not literally, although I might have more luck with it that way. Anyhow, this is forcing me to come up with ways to kick-start den kreativen prozess.

Things I’ve tried so far -

Take a long walk, think about how I want it to sound.
Imagine a story [...]

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Day 5. Dealing with major distractions

June 22nd, 2009 · 1 Comment · Guitar, Solo Album, The Jewel Box

Sorry, no time for blog post – Wimbledon has started.
This is one of my favourite times of year. Two weeks of incredible tennis, huzzah! No idea how last year’s final could possibly be topped, but I’m hoping for a Murray/Federer 5 set nail-biter with Murray eventually scraping through. Blake’s out – bit of a surprise [...]

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Day 3. Ummmmnnnnnnnn, er, er, twiddle, Tea!

June 20th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Solo Album

So, the drum recording was good. Here’s a video of the session. Today, however, I’m being my own worst enemy and faffing around. I resolve to do something today and report back. In the meantime here is a nice doodle I made, and a clip of a solo I recorded for Seb Cornellisen a while [...]

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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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