anyway despite this lack of home recording ability i am pushing on with the band. we SHOULD be giggable very soon. it’s just a case of drumming (heh) the structures of the chosen songs into the memory of the drummer and then playing in a place in front of some people as they consume alcohol.

this wasn’t a very interesting post was it.

in other news i have a live band gestating… should be gigging in a month or two unless something drastically bad happens.

it was for an ice level but came out a little too sinister. i’m just glad it found a home in a game which not only saw the light of day but was actually a bit of a runaway hit! huzzah for unused songs i say! i have a bunch more random bits and bobs in the bank made for projects that never happened.. so when i’m in a fix i can just reach for the nearest hard drive!

also this may have happened:

The cool thing about this release for me is that it’s for playstation 3 and playstation vita, a much larger audience than ever before for the likes of my silly music and vocal noises! yes like Really Big Sky i provided all the annoying narration parts and maybe half of all the songs you’ll hear.

Recording the voiceovers was fun… the nice chaps at ripstone dragged me across the length of the country to their fair city to stand in a vocal recording booth for the day and call them a tit in a variety of tones. that was a very strange day actually, i had little to no sleep the prvious night so i was working in a haze. you’d be surprised how often that seems to help. a certain unhinged defocussed feel which helped me not to over think things. also powerful radioactive strength coffee helps. There exists a huuuuuge amount of outtakes too. or at least i hope they kept them. i know i messed up the lines enough times. i just couldnt stop saying “flip the drill around” instead of “engage the drill”!

The lines were always utterly silly and where possible a quote or referance to something that myself or james (James Whitehead, bossbaddie boss man) are into. so lots of british comedy referances, some running gags, some futurama referances and some things that i would just say in real life. back in the Really big sky days i’d say most of the narration script was written by me but as time went on it grew from both of us. When it came to Big sky infinity james wrote a whole load of new lines to correspond to the huge amount of new features which i hadn’t seen yet and so couldnt comment on… also some terrible puns may have found their way in.

The way i found myself in this role is pretty odd really, i’m a musician. i’m not a voice actor. but we needed something to add some extra flavour to Really big sky and i had recently bought myself a half way decent microphone. we just put it in for a laugh but it worked. it was really a case of me saying what i would say if i was the annoying friend watching you play over your shoulder… over time it got more and more exadurated but still based on myself. i guess the moral of the story is don’t play a game if i’m sitting behind you because i’ll likely call you a tit when you die.

In other news i’m releasing a new bandcamp albumoid soon, it’s only 25 minutes long but i cant sit on it any longer, it’s making my bum hurt.

Big Sky Infinity is happening and i’m recording the voiceover parts for that around now. I also made a new song for it just to see if i still could and because mister James always said he could find a home for more chiptunes! i have no idea when that will be done and dusted but i expect it won’t take all THAT long. obviously i’ll mention/link/whatevoir it here because i’m proud of my work with bossbaddie. ummmmm.

A few months ago i told mister David Brain of Ornsack ‘fame’ he can gut my albums/EPs/downloads/whaturvurr for music as he needs…. first come first serve, he came first i served. You may have noticed the introductiory riff to TGFO has been adopted as their ident tune.. all dine and fandy. BUT (and mine is a capital but) i’m always open to spreading my music whore-ing further. If anyone wants some… i’ll make some! simp-hole.

My live band is taking shape… in fact we’re ready to kick bottom. Only trouble is we still havent found a drummer who’s stuck with us.. (or indeed who we’ve stuck with) theres always something. either we’re too weird for them or they love us but are too far away… etc.

finally for now. since this IS a blog… here’s what i had for breakfast today: