4 posts tagged “video”
Hello,
Looks like a may have a lineup for Saturday
| Modernaire |
| The Dead Class |
| Momeraths |
| Death Can Dance |
| Melody Nelson |
| JB Newman |
Just got a call from my best mate Tony who's editing the footage for the podcast. I s hould get the finished results today which I'm really excited about. I'll stick it up on youtube/here. :-)
I finally set me up a myspace, mostly because I keep getting emails with myspace addresses on or people handing me demos that only has myspace contact details. So to message them about Vox I need an account to do it and I'm not using my old band one. That would just be wierd.
My organisatonal skills are possibly the worst on earth, hence the slap-dash methods of my gig organising. In fact if I were a little more organised it would probably be 'The End of Camden Festival' by now with big stage n that. However, for the first time in my life I now have a diary. For all the blackberries, cool software and jiggery pokery there is around here the most important piece of kit is my diary. Problem is, I'm now a slave to it. I feel naked without it, I start to panic. Is that normal?
I have to plan 'Early Night's and 'Beer Nights', kind of takes the surprise out of things. :-(
Anyhow, enough of that rubbish. I'm off to Brighton today to see The Electric City play at Concorde. I'm going to take a camera down and a mate to help me to film it as I want a record of this gig. I like the band and think they will be destined for bigger and better things and I want to get footage of them early in there career.
I think tomorrow's showcase is going to be excellent as the lineup (as always) is really good. It also see's the return of JB Newman which will be excellent. I want to get him in the podcast and his sort of stuff comes across really well. I hope you enjoy the results. Or even better, get yourself down and see the real thing. :-)
Anyway, I think this is quickly turning into a random and possibly crap post. So I'll head off, hope to see you on Saturday night.
Hope all is well with you.
Hello,
Firstly check out the media play in my sidebar, yes, I nerded out for the best part of an hour to get that working. Oooh, and it autostarts too! (Yes it's deliberate)
That is where the 'New Music Podcast' is starting it's life, as a wee thumbnail video over to the left there in the sidebar. Double click
to go to the youtube original (though you've probably already seen the preview thing.Anyhow, currently I've got two bands confirmed for Saturday, I'm still waiting on quite a few to get back to me. They are The Toy Guns who are really good (as is everyone I book) and Minus IQ. I'm still hunting through various demos trying to find bands that I want to see play. To aid me in this, those of you in amazing bands please come forth and make yourselves know to me. :-)
I'm still nursing a hangover and managed to develop a couple more random bruises and I'm not sure how. Wierd.
Talking of wierd I was asked "Why do you talk like that?!?!" by my boss. I can be
quite strange when I talk to people sometimes, I think it's because I asked "Did you engage in some of the lasagne downstairs at lunch?". I spend a lot of the day in slience listening to demos and writing. I'm begnning to wonder if I'm loosing the power of real-world interaction. Another interesting development is the complete lack of internal dialogue. Namely either talking to myself whilst doing day to day tasks (such as peeing or cooking) or saying inappropriate/abstract statements. The most recent when I was in a conversation about a recent signing and the state of the industry and I contributed with "My eyelids itch, what causes that?", they went to lunch.Anyway, I really am rambling now. I want more bands (as usual) so get in touch if you're good and I'll carry on going through the sea of demos at my end.
Hope all is well with you.
Hello,
OH MY GOD HOW AMAZINGLY GOOD WAS SATURDAY?!? I really enjoyed it and yet again all the acts went beyond all expectation. The place was packed out for most of the evening and I think everyone had a really good time.
I did the whole 'host' thing and announced each act which was good as people knew who to ask about the bands. Everyone got interest from the crowd which was really good to see.
The impishly lovely Lizzy opened the night with her delicate and insightful tunes. Certainly a candidate for the alternative folk night I want to start somewhere.
I'd been looking forward to seeing Young Husband for a while as I'd taken an interest in the scene surrounding Emmy the Great. He's been playing guitar for her for a while and had a gig literally right before mine at the Barfly. So he had to run down the road to get to TF's and perform. He must have been a bit gigged out by the end of it.
Rebbecca Jade was as quirky and emotive as I imagined. In her bespoke golden cocktail dress she wooed the audience with her combination of whimsical and darkly influenced songs. She certainly won over the crowd and I look forward to getting her involved in a bigger event. You must check her out at some point.
Daniel Flay and the Irreperable Guilt were all I hoped. TF's is possibly not quite the venue for his soft touch songwriting but once the set was in full swing the strength of his material was easy to hear. Really enjoyed the set and I'm looking forward to seeing how his material progresses over the coming months.
King Hermit were mental. Loud, very loud and reasonably mental. But also bloody good fun to watch. They were telling me their last gig had a bit of a moshpit thing going on, I said you don't get much of that from the usual Camden glitterati but there are venues/nights around London which are good for getting something like that going. Shame the Red Eye was knocked down.
Anyhow..... KOJO WERE AMAZING AND ONE OF THE BEST LIVE ACTS I'VE SEEN IN A WHILE. They were the first band I've put on that weren't allowed to leave the stage without an encore. People walking past the venue would stop, look through the window at what was going on, then come in the venue to see the band. That was a first for me aswell. You can hear a lot of influences in there and I heard Prince being mentioned in the crowd when people were chatting about them afterward. Plus I had several punters ask me for details of when they're next playing. The band dynamic/chemistry and a fantastic frontman make Kojo one of my personal 'one's to keep an eye on' for 2008 I think.
OK, video matters. I met up with a couple of people at the venue and discussed something slightly more professional in the way of video'ing. They're an independent company who specialise in music videos (I think) and said they're willing to start filming and editing these nights. All early stages yet but some months ago discussions were held in the blogs about establishing some kind of regular podcast/video podcast. So hopefully this could be the start. As regards the first one I filmed, thanks to Fooligan I have something to stick on here. Unfortunately, my poor skills as a cameraman were highlighted and he didn't have much to work with methinkgs. But please check out the below for a flavour of what the showcase nights are like.
Hope all is well with you.
This is what I've been looking at for the past 6 hours:
If I was one of the ruthlessly talented folk who regularly produce stuff and post it on Vox I probably would have this done in about an hour. Instead I decided to work on this for someone and have really discovered my limitations as a producer. Actually, producer is not quite the right word, 'a bloke with a pc' would probably be closer to the mark.
Bank holiday Monday this weekend, woohoo. Not got anything planned, doh. I should have really thought ahead on that one. Though I may be doing some filming this weekend which will be good fun. Got an interview to do I think.
Last night was a combination of a drink with a friend, then carrying on with the above. "Ooh, it's only a two hour job, I can stay for one more".... idiot.
Not sure what to do tonight, maybe I should economise and stay in. Though a night on the town feels quite appealing. I don't want to head to Camden for once. I'd prefer to try something different. Maybe even head to east London. That would be contraversial. Anyone got any recommendations?
I should get on now. I'm working from home which to a lot of people sounds like skyving, but I really am doing stuff. Now I need to get showered, fed and head to the office sharpish incase I've missed something.
