Anecdotes #6 – 1981
I said a few posts back I was just gonna do singles for a while. You know what? I thought I’d be into it, but I’ve found it’s just leaving me a bit unfocused and scattered. So I’ve canned a few of the tunes I was gonna release – at least for now – and...
‘Saturn Was the Sun’ – from compilation ‘In Thrust we Trust’
New song! ‘Saturn Was the Sun’, a contribution to the compilation ‘In Thrust we Trust’. Dean Ballinger, a legend of Hamilton music (particularly back in “my day”), was recently diagnosed with motor neurone disease – and this compilation is his muso friends’ contribution to paying his bills. For $20 you get nearly 50 tracks recorded...
Anecdotes #5 – September 27, 2020 – The Queenmaker
I put out this song ‘The Queenmaker’ a few years ago, but was never happy with the recording. It’s a bit amateur, you know? Recorded a new version that didn’t make the cut for Bunkerland, since it was a bit on the pop side. Today I replaced all the digital-recorded guitars with versions recorded through...
Anecdotes #4: September 25, 2020 – Perimeter
Spent the past couple of days (outside of work, parenting, real-life) working on a Big – yes, capital B big – Rock Song. I figure if I’m gonna record with a real-life amp now, rather than modelling, might as well go all in. The song I chose was ‘Perimeter’, which I wrote in 2014. The...
Anecdotes #3: September 21, 2020 – Awake as the Sun, Endeavour, The Gatekeeper, Apathy, Star-Off Machine
Whoops. I know I said I was – and I quote – “document what I’m writing and recording in real-time, on this here part of the website”, that’s not quite happened yet, has it? So here’s a bit of what I’ve been up to over the past month. I bought an amp! Yes, a...
