Stuck...

Grr.

I hate weather like this. It's really horrible out there, & I'm stuck inside (due to loss of umbrella and possibly unhelpful lighting strikes). Some useful things can come of that; I've been back through the ton of little recorded ideas on the mobile, and there're definitely some that could be useful. Plus, there was the techy stuff that needed to be done in the Studio - a bit of re-wiring, updating my new sample library (which means trawling through old Future Music DVDs and copying everything over into sensible folders) and generally finishing a bit of a cleanup.

But best of all, there are the time-wasters - online Mah Jong, the demo for World of Goo (which looks awesome - buy it, buy it - it's about £13.59), and iPod Peggle (warning - naughty words from the awesome Zero Punctuation review - love Yahtzee) which we've decided is actually pure evil - how addictive?. But for pretty-automatic-quickness, I quite like Wordle.net.

So here are the Wordle outputs for this Blog, our Front Page (which I like the most) and our Twitter twits. Clicky Clicky.

Blog

Main Page

RiddlerMusic Twitter

Sometimes 'purdiness' is so quick and easy. Reading this on FACEBOOK? Pop over to the blog to see the piccies.

Anyway, back to doing something useful - remember - FREE GIG (& last gig of the year) on Sunday the 30th of November @ Proud Galleries, Stabels Market, Camden - shop and listen to music from 2pm (we're on 3pm) - previous blog actually tells all...

Mike

Studio Dog takes over...

Those eagle-eyed people over on MySpace (and a couple of friends over on Facebook) have been asking some questions of our status updates... Who/What the hell is Studio Dog? Why are you so obsessed with him/her? Eatball?

Well, we've had an absolutely wonderful time over the last week - dog-sitting. The Dog in question is known, locally, as the mighty Scooby Doo! And he's an absolute Sweetie :). In fact, there were enough questions about him for us to make him a little blog all of his own, so you can find out more about the Mighty Mr Doo over on The Adventures of Scooby Doo. Bit of a work in process, but there's much more stuff to go up there, and we'll do that when we grab a moment!

As for musicy goings on - loadsa stuff. 3 gigs this month (Ramshackle on the 3rd, the legendary 'Stables' on the 12th - we're playing on the same stage that launched Gabriella Cilmi in the UK), and The Good Ship on the 19th), and we'll blog them in a little more detail if we can get the camera working again (blogs without photos - can't be done). We also have a stack of photos from the Nambucca gig that need processing, so those should be popping up.

Other than that -rehearsing, writing, recording - the usual really :). More to come ASAP...

Oh Hamswell, Hamswell, Hamswell...

My God, what a weekend! It really was stunning, and even with the spattering of rain that invaded a bit of Friday night and Saturday afternoon, it was warm, friendly, fun and definitely worth the trip down to Bath!

What happened? Easy - music was blasting out over the rolling Somerset hills when we turned up, and we took great pleasure in continuing that tradition for 45 minutes in the early evening as the first full-band on stage. Awesome sound, a wicked 1st play of 'I Am The Machine', and people jumping around in the August sunshine. We met lovely people, drank amazing pink cider, met even more lovely people after that, and generally mixed chilling with bouncing around all night to some really excellent bands & staring blankly at the whisp-covered moon.

Saturday was a bit more of a damp experience, but after music all-night, everything kicked off nice and early. And even if some of us missed the 'Disco King' (which was gutting), it was just as good as the sunny Friday. Good to see the required number of fairy costumes too. There may also be a video of Dan doing his best Once-In-A-Lifetime-Talking-Heads impression, but we'll have to dig that one out.

So, if you didn't go this year, GO NEXT YEAR!

In the meantime, lots coming up - the Ramshackle Showcase on the 3rd of September, The Stables on the 12th and an Electro night @ the Good Ship on the 19th - new songs to play, new songs to learn, new places to play - it's gonna be a riot ;).