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 Read more
19-04-09 – Hi, are you Dave from biab? / MexBarrow again!
So much for regular personal blogs, eh?
Better late than never though! A convenient side-effect of not saying anything for a long time is having a lot to say, so let’s get started…
This past few weeks entailed…
- Releasing the 7 day Bassline song!
- Getting my new camera and starting the next Axe-Fx tutorial
- Getting the business plan 99% finished
- A Mini YAWA tour with a gig in Mexborough (6/10) and Barrow (5/10)
- Spending a whole week with Rachie where, amongst other things, we
had a picnic, watched shutter island and went to a skins audition!
- Going down to London for a secret project!
- A bunch of online teaching sessions
- Starting work on the new 7 day song
Boyinaband babay!
Rachie has assisted with some cheesy vocals for this month’s 7 day song tutorial on boyinaband, focusing on the genre “Bassline”.
It’s seriously cheesy and took about 2 weeks to complete thanks to YouTube deciding to change its layout and break its upload forms, but it’s all up there now for you to listen to and learn from!
Check out the finished product here: Read more
29-03-10 – *Ends the Beginning* / *Gives tea to old people*
Okay! So what happened this week?
- Getting the YAWA EPs + T-shirts
- Playing the Epic YAWA EP Release show (7/10)
- Having my brand new camera stolen
- Finishing off the 7 Day Bassline song
- Helping out at Rachie’s community project
- Visiting my homeslice Ogre
- Doing more skype teaching sessions
*Wipes Brow*
Okay, I’m no stranger to stress and close calls, but literally getting the EPs about 7 hours before we were selling them was cutting it fine even for me.
On wednesday, two days before the release, I got a call from the duplicators saying the printer was broken. Read more
22-3-10 – A painfully quick recap // Excitement?
So much has happened that I couldn’t possibly recap in detail without going crazy, so I’ll bosh things out in the form of a list with quick explanations (barring the first one that I wrote a section about in Germany before I collapsed from exhaustion)
A lot has happened since I last blogged, including…
- Supporting an 80s pop sensation with YAWA
Sigue Sigue Sputnik
Now I’d never heard of them before, but… Read more
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…