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Wednesday, 8 September, 2010
Joining Ghostship Lanterns...
As an obstinate dullard, I only tend to waste my spare time; so joining another band seems a good idea - And I could have done much worse than to lend my piano and synth riffs to local outfit The Ghostship Lanterns. Today I was hastily throwing-together synth parts for their track 'Kill the Lights', which previously was a solid if straightforward rock track, now accelerated to a fast-pased electro-rock anthem that wouldn't be amiss on a Killer's album. Amongst the other songs reheared in the living live room today was the sure-hit 'Hey Buzz', which follows Buzz Aldrin's fateful journey to the ...
Saturday, 4 September, 2010
Shadows in the Darkness
Today there is another E.P. release for you all to download (link here). The track, called Shadows, brings a darker edge to the sound, brought out with killer synth leads I put together on the MS2000. To download, simply create an account or login, there is a forgotten password feature if you really can't remember...
Tonight will be our first offical rehersal. Hopefully they'll be some news about a gig date fairly soon, so stay tuned.
...Sunday, 5 September, 2010
First Rehearsal
Today was the first time the gang from Burning Desire got together in a room and worked on the music, ahead of the show on the 14th October. Featuring whistles, flutes, bagpipes, banjos, mandolins, percussion, bell-trees, guitars, double-bass, violins, accordions, pianos and synthesizers, the living room was truly filled-up. We focussed on the first of two sets to be performed at Passing Clouds, as part of the music to the Celt-Rock extravanganza 'Wildfire'. I made a couple of rough live recordings which I'll listen to this week and if anything came out I'll post it up here...
Already I can tell ...
