Umm

Not much to report so far this month, I went on holiday to Cornwall during the first week and basically read several books on recording mixing and writing which was very pleasant.
I did manage to finally wrestle a copy of a demo of my friend Tim's proposed album. More about this over the next few months hopefully as he properly records it.

Since I've been back, I've been busy playing with a new soundcard and waiting for new software to arrive. Basically been teaching myself new stuff.

The plan is to spend the next 6 weeks trying to write lots and not do too much recording.

Emma has written her first tune. Totally improvised.

(Link now dead)Umm.mp3

Enjoy...

Rollasoc

Wet July

Well the end of the month.

One new song recorded, but it was so special, I sent it to one person and won't link to it on the site. (ok not so much a song as noise). (unless he likes it so much and says others should hear it).

Spent the last few hours going through all the partial song ideas that I've started and everything I've done in the past to cobble together a rough version of the forthcoming Hair Thieves long player, (obvious minus the new planned tracks I haven't written yet).

So far there is about 40 minutes of music that I'm happy with, so with finishing off the partial tracks and writing two or three more, things are looking promising. (I may even drop some of the older tracks).

The aim now to to concentrate purely on the writing aspect for the next two months with maybe rough acoustic versions, then start properly recording it and a few other things from October.

Also this month, I've done some recording with another local band. More info on this as it progresses.

I'm going into hiding now for a few weeks to concentrate on other stuff, see you on the other side.

Later

Rollasoc
PS I finished the Harry Potter book in a day.

Bitten the Bullet

Well, I've finally uploaded the new website. I'm expecting a few teething problems, (even after testing it). Please go and check it out and send me a comment.

As a result of finishing the site, I've fallen behind with the music side of things. I have started recording a new instrumental. This should be an acoustic guitar piece, (don't want to get too dependent on the guitar effects). This should be up before the end of the month.

Work is continuing slowly on a few other tracks, more details as and when I have them.

With the new Harry Potter book released in the coming week, I'm not expecting too much music to get done at the weekend. ha ha.

Later

Rollasoc

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