The Dawn of Elysium album “The Mandela Effect” has been a labour of love for quite a few years now, the sort of time it takes a lot of bands to fully write and record multiple albums. The reasons for this were many and varied. The seeds of the project were sown around about the release of our previous album…
Earlier this year I decided to create my own little piece of the internet. Outpost 10 began as somewhere to write about the things that interest me, revisit some old stories and generally make a home for bits of my life that I felt were worth preserving. I had kept a blog before but looking back, some of its tone…
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…