me uncovered…..
Music
High Fidelity – 2011 – The Digital Rebellion
Dec 11th
High Fidelity.
Great Movie.
But even more importantly many of us could identify directly with the characters in the movie.
I have a friend who is a hybrid between Jack Black's character ("Barry") and John Cusack's ("Rob"). He works in a very well known independent record store and has done for many years; Through my formative years he has shaped my musical tastes in many ways by religiously producing excellent mix tapes which formed the majority of my vehicular audio accompaniments at university….
Happy days…..
But Tapes are gone now…..and so is Vinyl……CD's will be next. So I have decided to solve the conundrum faced by Rob and Dick about organising your record collection. Chronological? Alphabetical?
None of the above. CD's are dead, baby – its all about lossless FLACs these days.
Emceeing
Dec 30th
Well, as you may have noticed on the front page of this site, I have been interested in a lot different things; I intended all along to put hard evidence up on this site as a sort of homage to my own efforts, a digital ego-wall if you will.
Hopefully over the next few days I’ll post a number of items up of various things; Episode 1 is evidence of my rapping/producing.
This track was written, recorded, mixed, and produced by me back in 2002/3, just before America went and messed everything up in Iraq. Expect strong political views and a touch of harsh language.
It’s a shame really, on many counts; I gave this track out to a couple of my mates and it caused quite a stir in Eastbourne (where I was living at the time). There was a stand up comedy circuit, and the organiser expressed interest in me performing tracks at his shows as a sort of break from the comedy; And of course some of my comments in the track were ironic/sarcastic comedy as well. I never pursued this avenue – missed opportunity #1.
My friend Tristan has been producing rock and metal and drum n bass tracks for a long time and offered to produce the tracks for me. I was enjoying the control I had (having recently quit my band Imessiah), and was reluctant to give it up. I politely refused; This was a big mistake. I was blinded by the control, and couldnt see that I needed a producer to break the track up from a listeners perspective, add a hook, and a chorus as well as re-record the vocal. missed opportunity #2.
I only recorded a couple more track after, and neither were up to scratch from the production side of things. I havent rapped since 2004. Missed opporutnity #3.
But here it is; Ignorance and Bliss by Switch (as I called myself then.). Please bear in mind I did two vocal takes. One got me half way through then I made a mistake, so I started over. The vocals are all done in one take, and only on the second go. Listening to it now, I showed a lot of potential.
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What have I learnt? I am stubborn, and arrogant. I have been trying to address these traits of my persona over the last 5 years and have made considerable headway at least.
Tristan, if you read this, I am sorry bro. I should have taken up your most kind and generous offer. The next track will be called Regrets and Disdain! 
Inspiring Performance by one of my musical heroes
Aug 13th
Lindsey Buckenham, playing big love live, all on his own. Fleetwood Mac were one of those magical bands that stand head and shoulders above the vast majority of rubbish around these days. Real musicians with real instruments and enormous talent. If you get five minutes spare today, sit back and watch this…….
