my brother has moved in on a temporary basis. the ideas behind this are that being a bass virtuoso he’d be able to help me out with musicing. we were also supposed to offer mutual moral support whilst both giving up smoking (again in my case). but so far all we’ve done is smoked loads and … thats about it actually.

that said the next song to hit the interwebs entitled: an ode to eyelid spasms is very much on it’s way, all it needs is the vocals redoing as the current ones are mere placeholders.

but yeah if we can find a drummer who hasnt given up drums recently and/or isnt rubbish then we will have sufficient personnel to start performing! trouble is we cant at the moment! we have high standards because we happen to both me locally renowned drummers ourselves…. standards are a curse!

The latest collings and herrin podcast has been released to the nerd army and i have been waiting to see how much they were going to take the piss as well as how nasty my music sounds coming out of a macbook speaker into a microphone … not as bad as i was expecting actually. I knew i forgot something fairly major though… telling them what my name is! Or at least how I desire to be referred to whilst i listen nestled in my comfy comfy high backed armchair.

It’s here!

EDIT: by the way before any of Nathan Jay’s fans turn on me i was being facetious and silly with that remark not really thinking about whether they’d read it out or not.

I have 2 more songs which are basically ready for release here. The real problem plaguing me at the moment is i’ve been trying to animate a video for one of them for longer than i care to remember… i’m not an animator by any stretch! Also i think  something like that would work well for the men of phise song. I’m thinking something along the lines of stick people in the style of Richard’s original illustrations running around machinegunning eachother in the eyes.  I need to magic up an artist/animator out of my arse!

Oh and by the way happy valium-times day if you’re into that sort of thing.

a song based on Richard Herring’s men of phise saga as heard in the collings and herrin podcast 92. it really is a great story anyone who isn’t aware of the podcast should download it!

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about a year ago i wrote a song about Brian cox, the large hadron collider and all the absurd stories in papers like the sun about it killing us all. just today i finally got round to recording the vocals.  oh it was my first hyper-edited crescendoing guitar solo too.

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