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Just a trifle.
I’ve been limiting my social interactions these past few years but recent signs locally of an unsettling cultural shift set me off on a trip to the Big Tesco, my first since before the Bad Times. The most recent of these signs was last night at the nearby Lidl where I saw a grown man arrive on a unicycle to get his messages. No ordinary unicycle either. An electric unicycle. This used to be a…
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Just a trifle
I’ve been limiting my social interactions these past few years but recent signs locally of an unsettling cultural shift set me off on a trip to the Big Tesco, my first since before the Bad Times. The most recent of these signs was last night at the nearby Lidl where I saw a grown man arrive on a unicycle to get his messages. No ordinary unicycle either. An electric unicycle. This used to be a…
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It's a guitar.
It’s a guitar.
New guitar. Woohoo.
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Update on Previous Update
Update on Previous Update
A couple of months ago I posted this:
“… all of my solo back catalogue will be reissued on Bandcamp under the Mister Hughes monicker over the next two months. I did have big plans for these but I’ve got to face facts and go with a bare bones, digital only approach for the time being. Hopefully physical releases will follow in time.”
If only life was so simple. It seems I’ve lost access to all…
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Good dreams
A wee while back I had a nice dream.
I never have nice dreams. My dreams are, by and large, terrifying and disturbing. At best unsettling. This one though, was nice.
I was in a room, some sort of workplace break area and I smoked a cigarette. Took it out of the pack, lit it with my old brass Zippo and smoked it, savouring its utter loveliness. On my last drag, I woke up feeling quite at…
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Falling Down Stairs (new tune)
Falling Down Stairs (new tune)
New tune up on the socials. Not remotely rootsy, mind – an instrumental in a sortakinda heavy fusion styley. Think Jeff Beck’s Led Boots or Gary Moore’s What Would You Rather Bee or a Wasp? but without all that pesky talent.
This, along with the last couple of tunes I’ve put up and a couple more besides will be on the digital-only EP release Hey-Ho (Distractions 1) which is made up of material…
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What the ...?!?
What the …?!?
I took delivery of this wee nylon strung delight this morning. Totally forgot that the strings on these things just randomly break in the wee small hours – specifically when you’re nowhere near the guitar.
I did very well indeed not to shit myself just then.
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Of the Earth (new tune)
Many moons ago I had the use of a software Melotron-alike. I built a track around it, then forgot all about it. A few years ago I found a lossless copy of the last mix I’d completed and played it to a few folks here and there who seemed to like it well enough.
Sadly the multitrack is long gone so I have no way to work on the vocals which were intended as a guide. Forgot all about it again for…
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Post (?) Pandemic Update
Like the rest of you I’m sure, the pandemic and such has played havoc with my business and as a result things have been quiet. As the old finances began to crumble my ‘dot-com’ websites had to go and so this site will be serving as my main online presence from now on. I’ll try and get a more user-friendly URL sorted once things are looking up.
Currently I ‘m looking at rebuilding the band (with…
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Excuses, excuses ...
Excuses, excuses …
November’s been a bit of a bitch what with one thing and another. However, there’s a couple of video reviews all but ready to go and two albums I’m writing up as soon as. So, over the next ten days or so, expect some country, some blues, some quality ’80s Cannon and some classic ’70s Doctor Who … a positive flurry of activity.
You know. By my standards.
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Hairy Panzer
This is the sort of shite that keeps me awake at night. Still, at least I’m ready for that Warlord revival we’ve all been waiting for.
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Hey-Ho (new music)
Here’s a new song for you, a rumination on a post-COVID world expressed through the medium of loud guitars.
Available from next week, details to follow in the next day or two.
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Monster (Humanoids from the Deep) (1980)
During its hugely popular annual Salmon Festival, sleepy fishing town Noyo finds itself under attack from murderous, fast-evolving rapist mutant fish-men. Only local sturdy blue collar types Jim Hill (B-movie and telly legend Doug McClure – At the Earth’s Core) and Johnny Eagle (Anthony Pena, The Running Man) along with hot science chick (“She’s a great little scientist!”) Dr. Susan Drake (Ann…
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TICKET STUBS: Beastie Boys, 1987.
TICKET STUBS: Beastie Boys, 1987.
What I remember: down the front at the Barras [Glasgow’s Barrowlands/ Barrowland Ballroom, one of the greatest venues on the planet], seventeen and completely off my tits, fighting for my right to party with this outsized, glossy programme up my t-shirt, as evidenced by the photo – said programme decades on, beat to death and held together with yellowing…
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New music.
Here’s something I recorded recently for possible in inclusion in an upcoming film. The words are by Mike Snow and I adapted the music from a demo by me old mucker Jim Dead.
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Things continue to happen.
The trouble with recording projects and the likes is that while they’re underway there’s nothing much to report. News soon, though, on the upcoming single.
On the subject of recording, I’ve just completed work on a couple of tracks for potential inclusion on the soundtrack to an upcoming movie. More news on that when I have it.
In the meantime, there’s another new post on the Ritual…
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