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Well we’ve finally got four songs recorded for our demo tape…..
1. Don’t go outside
2. Island
3. Tiger
4. Lightbulb
Now all we need is a band name, a website, and some funky looking CDs.

Photo by rooreynolds.
OK, so you’re a top band easily commanding audiences of 1500, and you’re only playing one gig in England on your current tour - where do you play? Hammersmith Apollo? Shepherds Bush Empire?
Well Sigur Rós, bless ‘em, only went and chose Southampton Guildhall! I suppose it means that getting to the ferry for […]

Had a great time down the Candle Club on Monday night.
Becky played flute and sax, Jim played keyboard and sang, and I looped everything in Live.

Seemed to go down pretty well with the crowd too, which was pleasing.
Sadly we didn’t record the output of the laptop because we were a bit pushed for setup time, […]

Jim Becky and I got together for our final practice last Tuesday before taking the show on the road (or at least down to the Talking Heads next Monday night).
You can listen to one of the pieces we made, recorded live on a minidisc, by clicking here.
It’s quite a challenge to create 8 minutes (240 […]

On Wednesday night Jim and I got together for another looping practice. We’re trying to put together a 10 minute live set where most of the music is created on stage and looped on my laptop using Live. We want to take Fake Plastic Loops to The Candle Club.
This is our third practice, but the […]

Went to see Beck on Thursday at the Hammersmith Apollo. Drove up to Mortlake in London, parked by my brother’s flat then took the 15 min bus trip to Hammersmith, not a bad little trip and very doable for the occasional indie excursion to the big smoke.
As for the gig itself, it wasn’t quite as […]

Went to see Supergrass at Portsmouth Pyramids last night. It was the fifth time I’ve seen them and by far the best. This is because:
1st time: Southampton Guildhall - crap acoustics, couldn’t hear a word Gaz was saying between songs. Band weren’t really up for it, crowd weren’t really up for it.
2nd time: Oxford South […]