Music

Blogging from bed! Fantastic.

Been endlessly listening to music during the last 3 or so days and, starting with The Cribs I feel I'm becoming significantly more enthusistic about music and am certainly enjoying it more.

I'm mainly refering to 80's jangly pop rather than Coldplay or The Police or something like that. Indie. More raw and therefore less refined. Hopefully more soul too.

Not keen on the endless derivative bands of the mid and late 80's who don't seem to last longer than 3 years and only make 1 album or 3 singles or something. The Popguns are great. Of course The Wedding Present are brlliant. I've listened to a whole lot of lo-fi and folk too.

Vocal melody is far more important than I've previously given credit for. As is dynamics and instrumentation. Even which chord inversion to use. All this music I'm sure is doing me some good though. It's inspirational.

This on-screen keyboard is highly forgettable though.

Martin

Inspiration at last

Been sort of unemployed for the last three months with the exception of some self employed gigs and a little bit of other work but am determined to continue with confidence that we will still be provided for no matter what the situation or whatever the future holds for us in the way of work. Interesting developments very recently for PA gigs and more interesting agency engineering stuff also.

Have been almost continually listening to last.fm, utube and spotify for 80's jangly pop, folk and others in the last 36 hours - finally seem to be getting inspiration for writing again. Feeling like I need to do it - I've kind of forgotten about it for the last year or so but it's tapping me on the shoulder now so I have started to get back into it again. Have to start playing live again even if it's just guitar and vocal.

The Popguns, remember the popguns?

Martin