Archive for the ‘Personal’ Category
01-02-10 – Let’s get down to business / The End of the Beginning
Phew! So! What’s the haps then?
- Posting the new boyinaband update (a nice summary of January and an explanation of Feb)
- Getting some seriously good work from G66.eu + Primeloops
- Working hard on the business plan for boyinaband and cash-flow-forecasting it up!
- Recording the guitar and some vocals for YAWA’s new EP
- Getting a tonne of gigs booked for YAWA!
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25-01-10 – Klippaz! / *Brandishes Axe (fx)*
So! That time of the week again. What has happened in the past 7 days then?
- Making the Review Video for the Axe Fx Ultra
- Getting it on G66.eu!
- Starting work on the Business Plan for biab
- YAWA practice!
- Recording almost all the guitar for the new EP
- A considerable amount of Rachie time + Meeting Klippaz!
Straight to Video
So the Axe Fx Ultra review is finally up: Read more
18-01-10 – *Puts on business hat* / *Socialises*
Bonjour, y’all! How’s life and the internet treating you? For me, it’s entailed…
- Posting 5 boyinaband videos
- Announcing the winner of the Hip Hop Composition competition
- Watching the incredible “Avatar”
- Going to Tamworth to catch up with my uni homeslices
- Recording all of the basslines to YAWA’s new EP
- Not having YAWA practice on Sunday 
- Rachie surprising me with a… surprise.
- Having a big group hangout on Saturday 
Axe Fx Ultra = considerable time drainage
Man! I thought for this week “I know, I’ll bosh out 7 videos about the axe fx no problem, make it a themed week and boyinaband will be well on the way to having one video a day!”
I managed alright with the unboxing and then on tuesday I recorded Kieran playing through the presets, but I had to stretch the presets out to 4 days worth of videos, both because there were so many good ones and because when I started on my video review, I didn’t stop. It took me:
11-01-10 – Binary Date :D / Boyinaband is Better!
Wow, what a binary-esque date!
This week, I got up to some work-related hi-jinks!
- Released the new boyinaband site!
- …Which involved making all the content
- …and recording a video about me!
- Judged the Hip Hop Composition Competition.
- Recorded some guitar for YAWA with the Axe Fx.
- Came up with some ideas for the first YAWA music video
- Spent 3 days with Rachie and watched “Daybreakers”
- Played 4 player Mario on the Wii for the first time
Release Day!
Yay! After weeks of toiling I’ve finally released the new and improved [Boyinaband.com] site design!
I couldn’t quite get it looking nice in Internet Explorer 7 and below, but I figure anyone still on there and not using Google Chrome or firefox yet should probably switch anyway. So their nerdy friends don’t make fun of them, you understand – I’m only looking out for their credibility.
04-01-10 – Recap and Roll Out! / So *that’s* what a real party is like…
Hey! I’m finally back from whatever it is I’ve been doing over the last month!
Let’s do a recap. It entailed…
- New Years!
- Christmas!
- Many gigs!
- A tonne of boyinaband stuff!
- Considerable Rachie time!
- Hanging out with many friends!
- Some things that don’t warrant exclamation marks!
- Resolutions
I couldn’t possibly remember everything, but I’ll see if I can recall some of the more interesting bits…
New Years P. A. R. T. Y.
Rachie’s friend invited both her and me to a party on new years. Now, in my experience, new years involves sitting at home watching a Bill Bailey DVD (I actually got another one this year, watched it on Christmas though.) – this year was slightly different.
30-11-09 – That girl is my Indie Cindie (She’s not actually Indie though. Or called Cindie.)
What’s happened then?
- Got a Girlfriend 
- Had my sampler break O_O
- Supported Hadouken!
- Got “Dragon Age” and completed it.
- Tried out Google Wave!
- Made a ton of guitar tone tutorial videos
David’s got a Girlfriend!
I’ll try not to make this soppy, since I know I wouldn’t want to read several paragraphs of someone obsessing over the new love interest in their life.
I’m now with a girl called Rachel. It’s kinda cool how we met – it’s through YAWA. You see, she saw me play the “Generation: Summer Slam” show maybe 2 years ago at the Wulfrun Hall. Maybe a year later, she decided to come see YAWA play live at the little civic with a few friends…
02-11-09 – Zombie Pyjama Party / Kerrang still likes YAWA!
Hey there guys! I’ve been pretty swamped lately, hence the lack of last week’s blog. I’ll try to catch up this week!
It’s entailed…
- Finishing the 7 day Song Trance Tutorial (15 freakin’ videos!)
- Starting on a multi-part video tutorial explaining how to record distorted guitar
- Some issues with friends
- Playing a YAWA gig in front of a Kerrang DJ in Walsall!
- A costly YAWA gig in High Wycombe
- A pyjama-tastic gig in Barrow
- Recording and mixing the new YAWA tune “Zero Gravity”
- Keeping up with my Primeloops blogging
- A bunch of commissioned tutorials
- Having a tutorial accepted onto Audiotuts.com
- Hitting the 1000 visitors in a day mark on boyinaband.com
- Producing Kieran’s new 12 Story Fall song
- Selling and Sending off a bunch of YAWA merch
- Getting and Playing Brutal Legend
- Hitting 1500 subscribers on YouTube
Dis is 4 da Trance Heads
Man, my 7 day songs are usually intense experiences, especially combined with attempting to keep up a normal social life, gigging with YAWA and… uh… sleeping and eating, but this was something else.
12-10-09 – There’s no money… / A City of Owls?
Hi there!
This week has involved…
- PAPA ROACH LIVE!
- A TON of biab videos
- Keeping up my primeloops blogs
- Another commissioned tutorial
- Doing a sweet YAWA press pack
Papa Roach
For my birthday, my homegirl Rachie got me a ticket to go and see Papa Roach with her and my other homegirl, Louise. This week entailed that show – and it was ace.
Not so much for the first bands – a rock group whose collective ego could outweigh your average steam liner and Madina Lake who, whilst seeming lovely people, managed to play a set that I forgot 3 seconds after it was over. Barring the guy’s scream, that was pretty good.
05-10-09 – The only bit of carpet! / Guess who’s back…
Hey Guys.
I’ve been neglecting my personal blogs lately – I just couldn’t find the motivation to do them. But now, as a result, I feel kinda lost, not sure what I have to do, so I figured I’d try blogging again in the hope that it would put me back on track.
Okay! So this week, I…
- Went on a Mini-tour with YAWA and…
- Played a Gig in Liverpool
- Played a Gig in Mexborough
- Played a Gig in Leeds
- Worked on an awesome new YAWA song
- Got back on the Primeloops metaphorical horse
- Made a few video tutorials I’ll be releasing next week
- Had a 203 meeting where we tried to combat lack of motivation
Mini Tour
This weekend, Zak had organised 3 gigs in a row, working our way up the country so we could save money on petrol and play more places. This is really difficult to organise considering how hard it is to get gigs in the first place and how hard it is to control where and when they take place if you’re an unsigned band – so well done to Zak for that!
So we packed our camping gear, since Zak was intent on camping out in a random field both nights (Something I’m pretty sure is illegal, but hey…) and hopped in the van with Eamon and Scratch. Our first destination was…
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31-08-09 – Kieran and the Alcosalt / Pilots can RAVE.
Catch up time! This week entailed…
- Chilling at Kieran’s in preparation for…
- A YAWA show in an American Airbase o_O
- A Businessy Business Meeting
- My Sister Leaving for Japan
- Blogging for primeloops and biab