WFH today, so a nice easy start to the weekend. Lewes Psych Fest tonight. Hopefully I won’t get drunk and miss the train home.
it’s mostly family stuff this weekend. I’m on solo parenting duty all tomorrow afternoon / evening, and then sunday we’re having lunch at our local with my brother (who in the last five years has only visited Brighton once and didn’t see us when he came down, despite the fact that he was picking up a rescue cat from some friends of ours - when we told Jimbo he said “who’s uncle Graham?”)
Ah buddy this sounds like a really rubbish Friday.
Hope this doesn’t come off as trite by way of comparison but I have a song called Flashing Lights coming out on an EP later this year inspired by you. The drums on it were built around that melody you put together when we were all messing around with that online music maker last year. Not nabbed any of your melody (not because I didn’t like it!) but you’ll hear the rhythm of it in the percussion.
I can really hear it in there, you’ve made excellent use of it!
I love the whole track, the bit where the piano drops in is reminding me very strongly of something but I can’t quite place it. Everything sounds so pretty but is all nicely skewed around making all these interesting spaces within the song.
Me (5am): Urgh. Been awake since half-three. Need to get some sleep. Brain: Shall we just have a quick flick through the ‘Times You Made a Tit of Yourself’ mental showreel? Me: No. Brain: Maybe we can just do ‘The High School Years’ volume? Me: Any chance of the ‘Times I Was Truly Happy’ showreel? Brain: ERROR!!! HTTP ERROR 404!!! FILE NOT FOUND!!! Me: It’s going to be one of those ‘all the coffee’ kinda days, huh? Brain: (starts ‘Tit on Holidays Abroad’ showreel) Me:(gets up)
I basically mapped a different percussive instrument to each note of the keyboard corresponding to your melody and used that as my starting point.
The last two gigs I’ve played I’ve had folks come up after and say my piano parts reminded them of Jean-Michel Jarre (who I’ve still never knowingly heard…) so it could be him!