It's been a while, but I'm back. I
brought chocolates...
The other night we had a harp playing
friend of ours over at the Ranch. She accompanies the Dame on
performance poetry gigs. It's pretty powerful stuff. We had a lovely
jam session around the kitchen table until midnight, when we
disappeared one by one to bed. By 9.30 the next morning, music,
poetry and chats on recording & marketing had begun afresh, the
only difference being that it was being done over coffee rather than
beer. I love living in a musical house!
So here's the landmark third
installment of my buh-lohg! It's been three weeks since my last
entry, and it's been a pretty hectic ride. Fast.Like.Fun have been
busy. We shot a mofo'in music video! And not just a 'we totally shot
a music video with an iphone with hammy acting and that girl I really
like playing the love interest so I can increase my chances of
getting in her pants' music video. I mean an actual music video with
lights and HD cameras and a director and people lifting things and
shouting stuff like 'speed!' like they fecking mean it and more blown
takes than you can shake a stick at, if that's your idea of a good
time. And we didn't do normal things like pick a place to shoot. No,
no, no, we Scouted A Location. We probably had a Best Boy and a Key
Grip or two about the place too, but I don't know what they are, so
I'm not actually sure. All those hours spent practicing film-set
jargon in the mirror really helped.
In all seriousness, the video was the
brainchild of our esteemed drummer, engineer, producer and coffee
maker Poppa V. The concept for the video was his idea, he found
(Scouted) the place (Location), and the people who were good enough
to help us out on the day were his nearest and dearest. The
steady-cam rig the cameraman used? He built that! The man is a
genius, and it's only through serious effort on the part of Easy
Keith and myself that Poppa V hasn't taken over the world.
All the more impressive MacGyver
episodes were based on things V does while he's eating his cereal.
At
the time of writing, the video is in Post Production (another little
gem of a phrase I can now rattle off as naturally as 'bacon
sandwich') and will be unleashed onto an unsuspecting internet in the
next couple of weeks. Want to guess who's in charge of post
production? Yep, its Poppa V. Poppa V; the man who, through the
cunning use of Technology, turns this goofy looking pasty-faced Volvo
of an overgrown seven year old (thats me) into someone you'd actually
consider buying an ice-cream from. Or something... Either way, stay
tuned! I expect you all to watch the video at least seven or eight
times when it's released.
In
case it wasn't obvious, I had better tell you that these early stages
of playing the mainstream rock circuit are all a bit of a learning
curve for me. In the past, I've either worked with bands that were
already well established, or blues bands, which seem to have their
own independent circuit. At almost 25 (birthday this saturday, you're
all invited!), I'm doing for the first time what most musicians
experience in their late teens. That's ok though, right? Right?? Want
to buy an ice-cream?
Apart
from all that, things are going well. The One Horse Pony EP 'Far &
Wide' is being mixed by Harmonica Niall. The Black Mountain Boys (my
lovable Americana-spouting, blues-belting, country-clucking,
farmer's-market-playing acoustic duo) have recorded a full length
album so people can take a little something of us home with them. If
they want to. Fast.Like.Fun have a couple of support gigs coming up
with Irish indie gods Senakah on their next tour. I love being busy!
Cheers
for reading, guys! More to come...
R
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