Least Productive Month

June, crikey what happened, where did it go, why didn't I achieve anything.

I had big plans this month. Record 2 or 3 songs, finish and update the website and leanr PHP and MySQL.

I've achieved none of them really. Ok I did release "Silverpit", but not the two songs I aimed to finish. I failed to write (or even start) this months competition piece. (not necessarily true that, I started one, liked it and pinched it for the verses to another song I'm working on)

I have done some recording this month, but nothing is finished. I'm blaming the weather for being too hot and humid to work and PES4 since I like playing it so much..

Good news though, Emma has started to teach herself the bass.

Oh well, July tomorrow, a new month, new goals, new horizons. I'd best get to work, even if it is just release the website.

Rollasoc (4/10 must try harder).

Later

Rollasoc

June Already

Wrote and recorded a little ditty this morning, whilst mostly hungover.

(Link now dead)

Leave a comment about it......

Mostly been messing with "Guilt of Innocent Blood" (part 2 of a 4 part thing that Cases of Conscience was part 1) track. Drums are mostly sorted, bass is done but needs re-recording, then just need to layer a shed load on top of it.

New Website launch will hopefully be towards the end of the month. I have a few things to finish off, but I want to write a new tune or two for it.

Gotta go.. Off to see Ferris tonight

Later

Rollasoc

Wrote and recorded a little ditty this morning, whilst mostly hungover.

(Link now dead)

Leave a comment about it......

Mostly been messing with "Guilt of Innocent Blood" (part 2 of a 4 part thing that Cases of Conscience was part 1) track. Drums are mostly sorted, bass is done but needs re-recording, then just need to layer a shed load on top of it.

New Website launch will hopefully be towards the end of the month. I have a few things to finish off, but I want to write a new tune or two for it.

Gotta go.. Off to see Ferris tonight

Later

Rollasoc

The weekend is here once more

Not much to report to be honest.

I went away for a week to Cornwall and didn't get much done (bar a bit of work on the website), due to family commitments.

Since I've been back, I've started messing (now I've found a tuning that works for me) around with my 7 string guitar. Expect much heavyness soon.

11 days until the next competition deadline and I haven't started this months entry... Ooops.

Website is coming along, though I'm suspecting trying to teach my self PHP, flash, CSS and mySQL all at once is probably a bad idea. The general layout and look is there, I just need to finish it off and write a couple more songs before I launch it. I might even do a free giveaway with the launch.

So the weekend is but minutes away. Looking forward to go-karting tomorrow, bar that I really need to start writing some music.

Later

Rollasoc

Knackered

Ok the competition song is finished (Actually finished it early last week). I'm not really happy with it, just had to abandon it to get it in on time. Voting on it has commenced. I'm not expecting many votes to be honest.

(Link now dead)AnotherSpringtime.mp3

This features Emma on trumpet.

Send us a comment about it, if you download it.

Bar that, not much happening, been far too busy to do any music recently.

New look website is still ongoing. Plan now is for end of May early June release. Hopefully with some new songs and sections (new sections to be written next week).

Need sleep...

Later

Rollasoc

Pedal Frenzy

Still updating the website, going slower than expected since I've been doing some stuff for another website.

New competition song, going slowly. Lyrics are taking an age and still no title. It's a bit of a cheesy pop song so far, but I am making Emma play some trumpet on it this time. I really need to get it finished in the next 2 days, since it is slowing me down on everything else I wanted to record, plus the deadline is soon. Though the first version will be a sub 2 minute song, I'm thinking of doing a longer mix of it with an additional verse, else all my music output so far this year will be very short songs.

I've bought a couple more guitar pedals (Line 6 DL4 delay modeller and a Digitech Whammy pedal), so I've been having fun playing with them. Expect (hopefully) some strange stuff soon.

Later

Rollasoc

Spring is in the air

Ok, sort of finsished the punk song I was working on. It needs a little more work, but if you are interested here is the link to the version I entered into a competition. (Which I didn't win incidentally).

GreenSpring182(Link now dead)

This isn't officially on the website yet so semi exclusive new track then. Go on leave a comment.......

I'm still updating the whole Hair Thieves site for a relaunch soon, so the story, lyrics and maybe a bit of remix will turn up then.

Currently working on this months competition entry (which is shaping up to be a bit jazzy but in dropped D), plus a few other tunes.

Going to ignore the news for the next month, now the election has been announced. Yawn a rama.

I'll keep you posted.

Later

Rollasoc

Where Does All the time go?

Oooo 2 weeks since the last enty (slaps wrist).

My birthday was a subdued affair. Which was nice for a change. No hangovers or anything.

Punk song is in progress. The music was recorded 2 weeks ago, just haven't finished the lyrics or recorded the vocals. The deadline for the competition is Thursday so I'd best do that today.

Been busy playing Rainbow 6, Sonic the Hedgehog and PES4, so not a lot of music has got done.

I let Emma hear the 2 versions of Tabanid, she preffered the original version, so I'll stick with that.

I bought yet another guitar last week, another acoustic. So expect an acoustic song written on it soon..... I'm thinking of getting rid of my 7 string guitar, I probably haven't used it in 6 months... I'm not sure yet....

My works had a battle of the bands competition the other week, I didn't enter, but was official photographer for the evening. I'll try and put a few of the photos up on the site in a week or two, since some of them turned out better than I hoped.

Went to the Haygate on Wednesday to see Mavis Tuesday and Graham (from the Exploits of Elaine). An enjoyable night, though a slightly shortened Mavis set (since they went on late). Still waiting for the Mavis CD to appear.....

I'll be in the Haygate tonight if anyone is out and about.

Right I'd best go and shout into a microphone and get this blooming punk song finished.

Later

Rollasoc