20055Apr
Anyone else remember that quaint term for those of us who prostitute ourselves through our skills for the price of a cup of tea?
The weekend job that couldn’t be done over the weekend got finished tonight. I used Garageband…
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20052Apr
OK – I haven’t posted in what… two weeks?
I now I find that I’ve got a month left before the 50th Anniversary Edition is suddenly history.
Well, I always work better with a deadline anyway, and having invested so…
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20052Apr
A couple of comments on the draft mixdown of ‘I’m Back’ (I’m-back4.mp3) have started up a whole internal debate in this little late night studio.
I first started playing rock music because it was wild and exciting and LOUD. It…
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200518Mar
While things may seem to be quiet on the 50th Anniversary Edition, there has been some noisier bustle elsewhere.
In short, I’ve been involved as a web designer in the launch of NedFodder.com and as a result I’ve been invited…
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200511Mar
A few months ago, I tweaked the Wordpress admin css file because I wasn’t keen on the Georgia typeface and disliked the menu styling (Wordpress admin CSS – geek alert!).
Well it broke under the strain of Wordpress 1.5, so…
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20058Mar
Following the brief discussion with Sam on the back of the two unfinished songs post, I decided to publish what I’ve done so far with ‘I’m Back’. Consider it a first draft while I get my head round what I’m…
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20055Mar
…never trust a placeholder.
In graphic (and web) design it’s fairly common to use a ‘placeholder’ image as a substitute for the image which the client or photographer still has to supply. With the placeholder in erm… place you can…
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200525Feb
Yup – with the installation of Wordpress 1.5 up and running I’ve enabled comments again.
So now you can all chatter away here about the the two unfinished songs while I sit with my head in my hands.
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200524Feb
As a last step before climbing into bed with the wonderful (if snoring) Ruth I just checked my web stats and noticed that some of you were having difficulty getting access to some of the pages on the site.
Well,…
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200524Feb
As my more devoted readers will confirm, I managed to delete the audio files I’d recorded for ‘Keep on’, so last weekend I re-recorded the vocals in four passes (I sang the song four times in other words). It’s only…
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