Saturday, March 24, 2007

Update

To be honest this is typical me. Finish something and move onto the next thing.
Well you might say the album isn't finished because it isn't out. And you might be right but you don't just stop writing and recording songs because you've got an album to release.
In short I'm more interested in what's next than doing the final mile and releasing the album.
OK, OK. It's got to happen, but first a bit of an update on what's been happening since I last posted in... June!!! I can't believe it's that long.
Musically:
  • I've just been writing and recording more Tripping Cherubs stuff,
  • I've been doing The Sinister Cleaners' album artwork (it's just gone on and on and on and on)
  • I've spent years of my life putting a database of reviewers together so I know where to send it (it used to just be: the NME, Sounds, Melody Maker and John Peel. But now every suburb has a radio station, fanzine, website, student paper, you name it...)
  • I've spent all my money on The Sinister Cleaners album (there's other people in that band so there is some moral obligation)
  • I've just been so busy working (yes, I have another life or two)
  • I went into Second Life and never came out.
So, there are the excuses for the fact that The Tripping Cherubs album is not in the shops.
Having done the Cleaners' album I got all depressed thinking what a pointless exercise and waste of money it all is. It's good fun writing and recording the stuff and even doing the artwork, but what's it all mean.
What I'd really like to do is just sell it as a download but then it would be good to get it in the hands of some reviewers and disc jockeys.
I think I may just put this album up online somewhere.
Anyway, enough of that. I need to sort some drums out on a few new recordings.