Just finished a nice little tour with The Missing Persians, the bluesy americana type band I play with. We first toured the Netherlands in 2015 after a Dutch musician/promoter saw us playing at an Oxfordshire festival (one of our…
As part and parcel of being a musician these days, you seem to need to do so much more than just play music. You need to understand marketing, social media, website maintenance and management, and (certainly if you use a…
I started writing this post when we’d booked some time together to begin recording the Missing Persians second album – I then saved the draft. I’m typing the text you’re reading now when we’re about halfway through the recording process. We’re…
This is really new (we’ve only had the name “We Are Puppets” for a couple of weeks) while also being quite old. It takes over where Beelzebozo left off, seeing as it’s three of the ‘Bozos recording a similar noise but utilizing…
I’ve been doing some more gigs with Space Elevator and and feeling a little more like a fulltime member of the band now that we’ve got our first recording session booked for new material. Exciting stuff!
Most recently one of my old bands have got together to rehearse for a one-off gig on Saturday 5th September. We’ve been Beelzebozo for quite some time now but we stopped gigging a few years ago, tried to find a…
Recently I’ve been doing some gigs with the Blake’s Heaven’s funk offshoot – still not sure exactly whether there’s an official name yet but Blake’s Funk Project seems to be the favourite contender so far. After an initial demo recording…
It seems to be the season for recording projects! The Toneheadz jazz fusion band are also about to start recording – rehearsals are tricky as we all live a fair distance from each other and are all quite busy, but we…
I’ve just replaced my main music computer. My ageing iMac was becoming unable to cope with what I ask of it (running Cubase and some video editing being my main concerns) without showing what a friend of mine has called…
Had a lot of private function work over the last month or so (lots of Christmas parties and works “do”s as you’d expect for the time of year) and not many gigs which are open to the public this month,…
