Just reorganizing my artist page and shuffling the long-winded version of my biography and discography over here.

My new band, Back Shimasu, appearing LIVE at the Edge, Roppongi, Tokyo on July 16th 2007. Be there or be square!

My ninth album... the first one in ages that I've been really careful about mixing/ remixing/ remastering as well. Mostly recorded with other iComp artists - all the good bits are thhey, all the rubbish I take full responsibility for...

The mini-album is now complete: 10 folk songs and instrumentals inspired by the five Danelaw boroughs of Nottingham, Stamford, Lincoln, Leicester and Derby.

In the evening all joined me, but we could hold no service because the ponkies were so excessively annoying that the cattle pressed into the camp to escape their persecutors in the smoke of the fire.

The album is finished. Long live the album!

Mi nuevo blog en espanol. Porque? Por que estudio espanol ahora, pero no tengo occasion por lo usar. Y no ya estoy seguro de como escribir los signos de interrogacion y los acentos... lo siento! Si (no si, cuando) equivocarso en mi espanol, lo puede desconocer o puede ayudarme. No importa. Quisiera aprender, pero en su mayor parte, quiero communicar. Entonces, "nacido entre pisos..."

...making them, I mean. And theming them. That's why I always have a couple on the go at any given time.

QAA Artwork, tracklisting and sleevenotes available to download now!

HaywireRobot was asking me about any other production tips I might have to follow on from "killing your fans" (yesterday's blog entry). Incidentally I always use the fan killer for my lead vocals but I am pleased to report that Haywire has managed to get himself a nice guitar sound out of it. Anyway this is what I do for backing vocals - listen to "Kentucky Fried Blues" from my Question All Authority album for an example...

A couple of people have asked me about how I manage to get a pretty clear sound on my vocals using just the built in mic on my eMac. It took a fair bit of experimentation over the last few months but I'm pretty happy with what I've got now. Incidentally I've tried this on my mum's iMac G5 and it doesn't seem to work nearly as well - she only has GB1 though and that may make a difference as the input level is harder to set. Anyway...

Diversion and I got to talking about covering each other's songs... well, now he's started a whole thread on the let's swap covers subject and the race is officially on.

Wow, so I did a silly little song called red vibraphones and posted it for Charlotte de Versailles to add vocals to...

I have just spent a couple of hours alternating between utter hilarity and cringing embarrassment looking through several folders worth of scraps of paper on which I wrote lyrics in my teenage years (before coming up with the idea of having a song book...) and here's what I rediscovered...

I'm making a concept album. And I'm doing it because I want to listen to something new.