Leonard Smalls

Haunted House of Rock - Whodini

And here it is in all its glory! As Gywrch Castle was a setting for I'm A Celebrity we had to have a spot of punk rock. Beware, some swearing so NSFW, Parental Guidance, Careful Now etc. Guitars - Squeir Torronado through various Helix Marshall/Orange emulators. Bass - Wal with a spot of valve overdrive. Vox - yours truly aussi, avec un petit peu de réverbération et distorsion. Drums programmed through EZ. Individual tracks coated in Neutron 3, some Dubstation on guitar soloey bit and vox, everything rolled in a thick coat of Mixroom and Ozone 9.

Just be glad y'all aren't using the 48 tone equal temperament system, instead of just 12 different notes you'd have to learn this malarkey! https://en.xen.wiki/w/48edo

Shan't bother putting in beeps then - the naughty words are probably indistinguishable from the rest of the racket anyway!

Big Bottom - Spinal Tap

Is there owt in the rules disallowing a couple of very necessary swear words? Just a bit of good ol' Anglo-Saxon!

Rabbit Rabbit - Chas'n'Dave

The Hole Of The Moon - Waterboys

I've been enjoying Prince Fatty recently - always sounds modern and old at the same time!

Personally I always tune my bass to Fb G## Ebb Abb...

Walking on Sunshine - Rockers Revenge

It depends entirely what key you're in... In any given key you only use a letter once. So if you're in Gminor it would be Bb (GABbC etc), But if you're in F#major it would be A# ... However, if you prefer to compose using Schoenberg's 12 tone system note names are a touch more fluid!

We sold a copy of our ep for the princely sum of £5 on Bandcamp Friday... As bandcamp had so kindly waived their fees we only had to pay the visa processing fee. Which was 41p! Now someone's taking the P as our card processing fees are 0.3% debit, 0.6% credit card with a 4p transaction cost, so if they'd paid £5 on a credit card in our shop we'd have been charged 7p.

Boxer Beat - Joboxers

Thong For Guy - Elton John

Last night we had a guitar'n'bass rehearsal... Now I'm mostly on guitar I've been teaching our other bass player how to play something approximating what I used to play. Which means teaching him to play more like me - instead of picking he now needs to use fingers, learn damping and all sorts of other stuff. So now he's getting theory as well plus exercises to help with fretboard familiarity and sensible fingering (arf!). And it's going well! I also have to teach him a bit of guitar to play on the two songs where we'll swap and I play bass. And soon we'll have him slapping so his punk bass playing mate will really have an excuse to shout out "Flash Bastard!" (he did that last time due to use of the third string!)

Just been reminded of this...

Therapy - Infectious Grooves

We've auditioned 3 guitarists this year after our old (not committed) one left. All 3 were flaky and not even very good! Luckily, as we have 2 bass players who are reliable we decided to do the Spinal Tap thing and use someone who's already in the organisation... As my bass lines are probably a bit complicated and often hidden from punters by scheming sound-mixers it looks like I'm guitarman. Now I can play my bass lines on loud guitar with a bit of strumming in between. And on songs where my (over-complicated again) bass-line is needed as bass we'll swap (which audiences also seem to like). So it's a win-win - no guitarists in the band but still a guitar sound, everything will be in time and there'll be extra shenanigans on stage!

It's possible we'll do another Chester one - Circl8 are keen... But organising Weeds is not the easiest thing in the world!

Currently very torn... This one may become a Weeds song.

I think that most folks who profess to actually like music tend to like only what they grew up liking... I knows what I likes and I likes what I knows etc! Any new music is just a racket anyway, kids nowadays don't know how to make proper music, not like it my day etc.

Talking of wanting people to listen to the entries (we'll be lucky!), I've been double busy s'arvo... Do I go for the punky little ditty, or something that sounds like Bill Laswell remixing Killing Joke In Dub?

Indeed! I have a free afternoon!