Winter Is Coming

10:57pm: Pyramid Scheme A'Hoy
The first five people to respond to this post will get some form of art, by me. It will be about or tailored to those five lucky "victims."
This offer does have some restrictions and limitations:
- I make no guarantees that you will agree with what I perceive as art and/or quality.
- What I create will be just for you.
- It'll be done before 31 days have passed. (I'd rather give myself enough time to make something nice.)
- You have no clue what it's going to be. It may be fic. It may be poetry. I may draw or paint something. I may bake you something and mail it to you. Who knows? Not you, that's for sure!
- I reserve the right to do something extremely strange.
The catch? Oh, the catch is that you have to put this in your journal as well, if you expect me to do something for you!

10:35pm: Festival/Gig Rant
To be honest, we sounded shit. Not because we played shit, but because what people heard was not what we played. I know its passe to say the it was the sound engineers fault, but it was. We were excited initially because everything was miked up and they even had monitors BUT they had no way of plugging our synths into the pa! So it went through an amp into a mic and then into the pa to come out of the speaker and monitors. Which is a horrid way to hear a synth since the amp colours the sound and then the mic distorts it. If anyone actually heard a beat I'll be shocked, because we could hear fuck all. And not being able to hear things clearly means that we can't keep time, so we look like kids with too much equipment that can't play their guitars.

It really irritates me that we put so much time and effort into making a sound, but that is never heard due to not being able to have things go through a pa or having a pa that is less powerful than my stereo at home. Whats the point, why don't don't we just get a drummer and do fucking sabbath covers.

I consider BitB to be a live band, we have always strived to have a sound that isn't pre-recorded (eg not using a laptop) but the solutions seem to be to add more equipment or do less musically. I just don't want to be frustrated when we play live because it doesn't sound like what we practice.

6:33pm:

6:14pm: Six Song Sunday
As part of an event organised by Double Dot Dash Six Song Sunday is a day where participants write six songs on a predetermined theme. This time the theme was colours:

one song about... red
one song about... yellow
one song about... blue
one song about... green
one song about... purple
one song about... orange

Here are my songs:

RED
YELLOW
BLUE
GREEN
PURPLE
ORANGE


Apologies for the format but itunes appears to like m4a and my pc appears to hate everyone and everything.

I made these generally in order.

( This is my description of each song. )

12:27am: Boredoms in the Bathroom 25 Jan 2007 - Plug & Play
Check it out:



We rocked and people seemed to enjoy our gig. We played:

Ultra
A Song For Tanya Donnelly To Sing
Bancha
Evil
The Bear

The whole evening was put together by Owr Rowse a production company that is being started up by Richard, the guy that recorded the double dot dash gig. I will be pestering him for videos of both gigs to shove on you tube so i can get them on this site and the other bitb pages.

Reaction was on the whole positive, people said:
'you definitely need a singer'
'you definitely don't need a singer'
'evil and the bear where played in the wrong order'
'bancha and evil sounded the best they ever had'
'mogwai better watch out'

It makes me want to play more to randoms as on the whole people say nice stuff.

There is a video of Evil that Jen recorded (she also took the pictures on this page) that I will get into you tube when I go round to her house tomorrow. Hope it looks good.

11:31pm: Practicing for the gig on 25th January
Boredoms in the Bathroom have been offered a gig on the 25th January at the Plug and Play studios. Its being organised by the guy that took videos of the Double Dot Dash gig. We are on first and playing a short 25 min 5 song set.

Practicing has started with Neil, Martin and myself playing songs we are particularly familiar with that don't really require very much work, what with the tight 'less than two weeks' timescale. To be honest is sounds pretty good.

This is a bit of 'A Song For Tanya Donelly To Sing'.



Its hard to video things whilst playing so what you see here is the bed then the ceiling then the bed again. Until I can work out how to properly embed sound files this will have to do. At some point I may have random bits of video to go with the music, but for the time being you have my bed.

10:05pm: Boredoms in the Bathroom at BBBs

11:48pm: More Boredoms in the Bathroom
Video for Evil done by Rich

11:27pm: Boredoms in the Bathroom

11:13pm: Hello
I'm in.

David