Gig Tonight At The Tump
Tuba Recording
A-harrrr! Today has been the day for Tuba Recording. Hugh Rashleigh came round with his tuba in the sun. It has dents and a bar-code. I expect he just got it from Sainsburys…
Very interesting hearing tuba doing stuff close-up and a lovely sound. It is made of cardboard with gold leaf spread over it with a pallet-knife and it has 5,341ft of tubing which can stretch all the way from Warwick to Banbury if you unrolled it…
So now we have done tuba recording on Zero Inches and that track is almost done it just needs some wubs on trumpets what I have missed out only on 4 bars. How exciting.
Warm Me Up Recording
This evening Bill came round to set-up for the tuba tomorrow for we are having a tuba played by Hugh Rashleigh who has invented a plastic trumpet. Hoorah.
Anyway – I have recorded the piano part for my new song ‘Warm Me Up’ which I wrote very recently. It has got trumpets on. And harmonies. This took just two takes I am pleased to say…
T-shirt for Dave Pegg
Look! Peggy (Fairport Convention bass player) done a T-shirt out of a cartoon I made for him cos he hurted his fingers badly and couldn’t play for a long time. I saw him with the Fairports on Monday at Nettlebed Folk Club and he was playing the bass uke which sounded really really amazing!! Anyway this is the T-shirt made out of my cartoon which he has got for sale although I can’t tell you where but you can ask him here maybe – this is a limited edition. It’s on Fairport’s website here…
This is the cartoon on the T-shirt: 
No So Arghhh Now
Now I don’t need to communicate using a laptop or bits of paper.
I can go lar a bit.
Tomorrow I shall be going LAR.
And then on Sunday I shall go LAR.
And from then on who knows!
Arghhh
Lost my voice from having a cold and had to cancel stuff…
Can’t speak even so = communicating with people using laptop as I am quicker at typing than at writing. However I can see that this will give me time to practice Bach Prelude II on my banjo…
Art Made By ?
This was actually part of a day with artist Barbara Jones of our education artist collective The VERY idea to find ways of integrating making marks and making sounds. This was in preparing for a workshop with people who work with 2 and 3 year olds. Along the way we did this which is an idea going round on the internet…
Very satisfying…
Eddi Reader at Huntingdon Hall
Me and my friend Deborah Rose – excellent singer went off down to Huntingdon Hall the other day to see Eddi Reader who I know from doing some performing with in the past. We were unexpectedly asked up to sing some backing vocals here…
If you get the chance to see Eddi and the band on tour it’s fantastic.
Saucepan Lids
Look I done this – my friend Louise Bates showed me isn’t she clever
Fiddly Bits and Piano Mics
Today Bill is here again recording the piano and vocal. There are some drop-ins and fiddly bits but all is fab and doodly and nifty. However then technical things going on blah blah very boring anyway you can see Bill getting jittering…
I do not have the faintest idea why he is complaining when I have done such a lovely diagram explaininging EXACTLY where the mics should go for the piano…
Odd Orders Merchandise
Today Odd Werner Sorensen who is from Norway ordered two things from my shop.
I am just putting the things in a jiffy bag to send off tomorrow.
Isn’t he lovely! Look – this is him…It is actually in fact what he looks like.
A Song For My Piano
Done recording today with Bill recording my piano at my house! Exciting. I have been doing ‘Song For My Piano’, Fly Away Little Bird’, ‘Everybody Loves You’ and ‘Shine’. Also ‘Company Shirt’ We have got the piano right now and it sound = gorgeous and just like a Bluthner drawing-room grand which is what it is.
I think I might have 8 possible tracks on the go now…
Electric Railway Museum Day
The other day this happened…
My Piano Hammer
Chris Teuten the brilliant piano tuner has had to take away one of my piano hammers in January sometime. In fact it is actually not all that bad because it is a note I don’t know about as it’s right at the very top and only sound like this = plink. It doesn’t even have a proper note I mean I don’t even know why it’s there for…I mean I’d rather have some more notes down the other end, I’m always using those and there always hardly ever seem to be enough notes there.
Anyway – even though I don’t really need the hammer what makes the note go plink I rather miss it as I know it is missing. So I am wondering when he shall be bringing it back to me.
‘Bring me back my Bb, bring it back to me…’
Lar-lar-lar (plink)
New open mic starting
Hello here is a lovely new open mic starting.
It’s every 3rd Sunday of the month starting THIS SUNDAY FEBRUARY 16th.
It is EARLY start and finish 6.30pm until 9pm.
It’s at Priors Marston village which is not far. Apparently there is cheap beer as it’s at Priors Marston Sports Club at Byfield Road CV47 7RP.
I might not be able to get there for this Sunday but I shall be doing an extended spot on March 16th though – see events where you can also find a map…
Session Night
Crompton Street Warwick
You can all come please thankyou
Recording Zero Inches
So I’ve mostly been at Bill’s doing recording Zero Inches which is going to have = lots of trumpets and is going to get a tuba undoubtedly. At the moment though I just need to get the vocal right…
