I discovered this while trawling old entries on Graham Linehan’s Why thats delightful blog when i should be working. I can claim it as research but really it gives me an excuse to drink tea and laugh my arse off. The best bits are the comments page with great links from subscribers.This reminds me of…
Monthly Archives: April 2008
ag scriobh…one month of nerd
Well, just an update. Tully AKA Turlough Gunawardhana came over just before the weekend and layed down the piano for a song we wrote together in about five minutes. I love songs that happen like that, it’s very easy with Tully as he is a master of melodies. We had to get the piece recorded…
all hail the 58
I was recording some vocals yesterday through a really nice microphone but it didn’t suit the song so i picked up a cheap Shure SM58 (the one you see just about everyone singing through onstage) and sang the song with it. And it worked perfectly. It’s lo fi quality and colour suited what i was…
Saturday Morning, coffee and blood
It’s saturday morning and i am reading about 8 people gunned down by machine gun fire for protesting in Sichuan next to Tibet. And some people are still saying the olympics should not be boycotted or dipped into politics.Do they remember Hitler and the olympic games?I understand the competitors have trained all their lives for…
madness…
I spent yesterday doing different takes of a song on a nylon string guitar trying to get the best performance and feel.I love the sound of nylon string and would play it live but i change tuning all the time and nylon string is a bastard for having “memory” and trying to go back to…
