Earlier this year I decided to create my own little piece of the internet. It began as an exercise in building my own website and keeping a blog about the things that interest me and make me tick, for no other reason than my own personal pleasure. I am not chasing monster statistics or recognition and I do not pretend…
How we stopped leaving our stage sound to chance Part II of my Welcome to the Machine series describes the evolution of our band’s monitoring system, from unpredictable noise to repeatable individual mixes. In the world of live music, certainly at the level of gigs we are involved with, few things are quite as unpredictable and changeable as on stage…
How our backing track rig evolved from simple drums playback into part of the live show In Part I of my Welcome to the Machine series, I describe the role and importance of the backing track within our band and how it has evolved. Plenty of bands (in fact more bands than you might think) use backing tracks, drum machines,…
How technology became part of the way I make, record and perform music Ever since I was a kid, I have been obsessed with gadgets and technology. My dad was an engineer and I was surrounded by electronics from a very early age. I was also obsessed with music from an early age, again thanks to my dad, so I…
We are extremely proud to present to you “First Light” – the first single from our forthcoming album “The Mandela Effect” Originally written back in 2020, it has been reworked and presented here afresh from the ground up Performed and reinterpreted by the current line-up, featuring the vocal talents of Kirsty Frances and spoken word by Phil Ragnar Audio produced…
The whole thing began very early one morning. We’ve all been there. I was awake too early, picked up my phone, opened Facebook and started scrolling as I had done a thousand times before. After a few minutes I simply thought, “Enough is enough.” The user experience has eroded more and more over the years and on mobile it has…
So what’s this all about then? Well it’s pretty much as it describes on my landing page really. It’s just a personal site where I can share things which interest me. A good old fashioned blog like what they used to have in years gone by, before the advent of Web 2.0 and the explosion of social media Why don’t…