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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.

Had some problems with mixing and compression at the last fpl practice.
Basically I have a live set with three input channels - one for Becky (flute/sax) one for Jim’s vocals, and one for Jim’s keyboards.
Each input track sends its output to three recording tracks, so it’s possible to build up to three layers from each […]

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 […]

A few weeks ago, Jim, Becky and I performed our first live looping set. So caught up were we in the excitement of the occasion that we forgot to record it. However, I did remember to save the Ableton Live set before packing up, along with all the loops I recorded. I’ve thrown them together […]

Fake Plastic Flute, formerly known as OK Flute, formerly known as Steve & Becky, Southampton’s second best flute based Radiohead tribute act, played the Talking Heads Candle Club showcase night yesterday, alongside some of Southampton’s brightest and best musical talent (including the Jewel-like Megan and the rockin Emma from up and coming indie band http://www.fleeingnewyork.com […]

OK Flute at candle club
Originally uploaded by kwyj.
A bit of a delayed report, but it looks like the first public outing of OK flute went down pretty well. As usual I stuffed up “Nice Dream” partly due to nerves/forgetting chords, etc. etc., but Karma Police passed without incident. All in all an average performance.
Imagine our […]

OK flute
Originally uploaded by kwyj.
On Monday Becky and I will be taking our flute-based Radiohead tribute combo, OK Flute to the Candle Club (open mic night at the Talking Heads, Portswood Rd, Southampton).
We hope to be on sometime round 9.30pmish and will be performing popular tracks from The Bends and OK Computer.
Full report to follow!

lappie 2
Originally uploaded by kwyj.
This month I finally splashed out on a new laptop. Now I can try and make tunes on the other side of my bedroom door which is scary.
Last weekend I took it on a family camping holiday in Cornwall but didn’t get to do much tunage what with it being quite […]