26-04-10 – The Darkest Step / *Kicks ass at sportz*

Alrighty!   So what did I get up to this week?

- Played a YAWA gig in Kettering
- Made the 7 day Darkstep song and posted day 1 today
- Finished the business plan and sent it to people for review
- Chilled with Rachie + helped her to revise
- Queued up my Primeloops blogs on biab

Sawyers was more packed last time.

Wow!   I didn’t think it was possible.   Last time we played sawyers in Kettering, it was during a snow storm.   There was hardly anyone there, but it was still a fun gig and the promoters liked us.   This time we played and it turns out that our Kettering fanbase is not old enough to get in the venue (I guess that’s a side-effect of playing so many youth club gigs) so there were less people there!

Well, it started out reasonably packed, but everyone left by the time we went on as it was so late.   Kinda annoying – though that said, we sold more merch than in Mexborough the previous week!   The people that were there loved it and apparently we’ve been put on another gig that usually gets over 50 people there just from the DJ.   So should be a good one!

Also on the bright side, I necked an entire large innocent smoothie.   8 of my 5 a day right there.

Dark…step?

My first sponsored 7 day song!   I’ve been kindly endorsed by a boyinaband viewer who wanted to learn the finer points of Darkstep production.

Darkstep is a dirty, evil subgenre of drum and bass, so it was clearly such a hardship to turn my hand to it.   I love my job.

I’ve posted day 1 and within 2 hours it has had over 300 views.   I feel like I’m getting somewhere with this YouTube thingummy

Oh, and I haven’t said in a while – I have over 4200 subscribers now.   That’s pretty much since half way through last year.   They’re coming in at a rate of about 20 a day.   20 new people actively deciding to watch the videos I put out.   It’ll be interesting to see how many of them I can get to assist my musical endeavours after I’ve given them all this free stuff!

Finally, Bidniss is done!

Well, the plan is.   I’ve sent it off to my mentor and a few business-minded friends to take a look at – I can’t wait to hear back so I can go ahead and apply for funding!

Rachie time!

Going to a pool for a semi-picnic, helping with revision cards (I now know Japanese children on average are over 20% more likely to get upset and resistant when in close proximity to their parents than English children – interesting, huh?), eating delicious Chinese (They were only a few percent behind Japan, incidentally) and playing rounders (I got the highest score of all the games, even with a bad arm!   Though I was playing against small girls and their little brothers… but I’ll still consider it an admirable victory.)

Next week on Dave’s Blog

So this week was quite relaxing, next week should be considerably more intense, with…

- Posting the Darkstep 7 day song
- Potentially some exciting news regarding the secret project with J.F.
- The 2nd Axe Fx Tutorial
- Getting some squash from ASDA at some point (we’ve run out)

Until we meet again!