One of the good things about the internet and the increased use of free media for self-exposition is the innovation and creativity it encourages. The pure numbers of people floating around the internet who are interested in a short video/blog post/tidbit that exhibits originality of concept and nice execution mean that talented ‘artists’ have […]
I don’t know if I’ve rambled enough about Will Cookson to enough poor souls but this guy is ‘in my humble opinion’ bloody fantastic. The title of his new album is ‘Songs for a Sunday’ and they could easily be just that - for gardening, afternoon napping, scrabble or sipping red wine and watching […]
A month or so back I decided to finally fulfill a longstanding wish: I went out and bought a digital piano. I’d been wanting one in my possession for a while and now that my tutelage is not competing with a beach in the near vicinty (a la Bonny Hills), I’m bound to have […]
So, I’ve been playing music for a while…for a good portion of that time it’s possible that what I created might not be termed music so much as the strummings and murmurings of a fool. Time has been relatively kind and I now have a semblance of relative pitch that was only fleetingly recurrent […]
I’m not sure how long this video has been floating around but it’s pretty cool. The guy’s name is Greg Patillo apparently and I got it from mySpace
Beatboxing Flautist
Here are two video clips of one of my two favourite musicians ever (the other being Nick Drake, as cliched as that may sound).
Spencer the Rover (Traditional)
May You Never
The first clip is a version of the traditional song Spencer the Rover that was recorded in the BBC sessions in 1977 or so. […]
So the other morning I was getting ready for work and a simple line popped into my head - “Climbing out of the blackest hole, darker than the darkest stone, dropped in the deepest sea”. As occasionally happens, I decided to write a song around this line. It changed form a few times; […]
When I was still young man, my life was fine and dandy,
Girlfriend sweet as sugar and she always gave me candy…
I’d never heard about…the no roots blues
You know, life could get no better and there was never talk of whether I’d wind up suffering from…the no roots blues.
Then one day it started, my girlfriend gave […]
I found this article whilst reading about Sly and the Family Stone and it looks really cool. Basically, the 100 immortals of rock’n’roll are described and reviewed by their peers and heirs, who are in turn famous, famous people.
Should be worth the read when I get a few moments.
I was a little suprised to […]
Who said that big profits bring more jobs?
On the same day that Coles reported a whopping 82 per cent increase in net profit from last year* (total $1.2 Billion), it has reported that it is set to slash 2,500 jobs in the name of simplicity. Meanwhile, shareholders will receive a 21 per cent increase […]