Hello all, it's been quite a while. About nine weeks I think! Anyway, life has been strange lately.
Last time I wrote here I was just about to go to California and I've finally got around to putting together some highlights of the trip.
I chose to go more for videos than stills. I'm already desperate to go back!
Hope you're all well!
X X X X X
Last time I wrote here I was just about to go to California and I've finally got around to putting together some highlights of the trip.
I chose to go more for videos than stills. I'm already desperate to go back!
Hope you're all well!
X X X X X
Perhaps you read this from my last blog.............
All of this though has brought up thoughts and feelings about Vitamin F, VF is the band (duo, whatever) I formed with Chris in 2003.
After only 8 months of knowing each other we somehow ended up in Los Angeles for a month recording our stuff, it was a total total insane experience and I think we thought we were bound for international notoriety.
Ha, nearly 7 years later we are about as notorious as the bingo caller downtown.
We have to own up I feel and admit that we could have done more to self-promote, however, we do feel that our progress has been blocked, hindered etc by some spiritual fucking darkness that just does not want out sound to reach the ears of others.
If VF did somehow go by the wayside I would be truly traumatised, I feel so strongly that our songs have so much to give and the new stuff we have written is off the hook!
We have a meeting on Monday to devise a masterplan revamp our website etc, so I'm hoping that we will overcome the things that might wanna write us off.
We did indeed meet on Monday night and it went very well, shed loads of creative ideas.
BUT, better still I received this e-mail yesterday......
Dear Ian, Thank you for sending your 'Nothing By Comparison' CD to UCB back in May. It
is always fantastic to receive music from artists such as yourself.
As you can imagine we receive thousands of CDs every year and have no way of
adding all these tracks to our playlist. However, we have a passion for
developing local music content and remain committed to new artists.
We have listened to your album and feel it would be perfect for a new show
we plan to start, highlighting unsigned artists. We have therefore kept
your album and details on our database.
We look forward to hearing more from you in the future and wish you all the
best for your musical career.
God bless and kind regards,
Luke Weston
UCB Music
As you might imagine I was delighted and soooooooooooo excited about what this might lead to!
I have been praying so much lately for us to find a way to break through, phew, could this be the opportunity that will be a real opening for us????
Wanted to share this with you all.
FF XXX
All of this though has brought up thoughts and feelings about Vitamin F, VF is the band (duo, whatever) I formed with Chris in 2003.
After only 8 months of knowing each other we somehow ended up in Los Angeles for a month recording our stuff, it was a total total insane experience and I think we thought we were bound for international notoriety.
Ha, nearly 7 years later we are about as notorious as the bingo caller downtown.
We have to own up I feel and admit that we could have done more to self-promote, however, we do feel that our progress has been blocked, hindered etc by some spiritual fucking darkness that just does not want out sound to reach the ears of others.
If VF did somehow go by the wayside I would be truly traumatised, I feel so strongly that our songs have so much to give and the new stuff we have written is off the hook!
We have a meeting on Monday to devise a masterplan revamp our website etc, so I'm hoping that we will overcome the things that might wanna write us off.
We did indeed meet on Monday night and it went very well, shed loads of creative ideas.
BUT, better still I received this e-mail yesterday......
Dear Ian, Thank you for sending your 'Nothing By Comparison' CD to UCB back in May. It
is always fantastic to receive music from artists such as yourself.
As you can imagine we receive thousands of CDs every year and have no way of
adding all these tracks to our playlist. However, we have a passion for
developing local music content and remain committed to new artists.
We have listened to your album and feel it would be perfect for a new show
we plan to start, highlighting unsigned artists. We have therefore kept
your album and details on our database.
We look forward to hearing more from you in the future and wish you all the
best for your musical career.
God bless and kind regards,
Luke Weston
UCB Music
As you might imagine I was delighted and soooooooooooo excited about what this might lead to!
I have been praying so much lately for us to find a way to break through, phew, could this be the opportunity that will be a real opening for us????
Wanted to share this with you all.
FF XXX
Well, inspired by the truly wonderful ickletitch I decided to write this.
Erm, I get a bit reluctant to write regularly as I want to avoid the Twitter thing of "I had X,Y and Z for breakfast", yet maybe a little update is due.
The training is now a thing of the past thank goodness although for a while I did keep having flashbacks, my boss thinks I might have post-traumatic stress! I think my week away just took the edge off the impact that it has had on me, seriously chaps never consider two years of a masters in 10 months, well, consider it if you are masochistic!
I'm in my base 5 days a week now and I see 5 people per day, I work at a high intensity level which means I see people who have very complex issues and often they have been endured for a very long time i.e. 20 years.
Funny thing is the more complex the problem(s) the more I enjoy it and as I've said before after working for myself for all those years working in an organisation is a breeze!
My commute is a little heavy on me 150 miles per day, my little Smart car has done 30,000 miles in a year, but I'm so sure the area we want to move to will benefit us big time, the vibe is a lot calmer than I'm use to, it's close to the sea and the houses are much more affordable. Just please somebody buy my current crib so I can move.
What else, I had the idea the other day that I badly wanted/needed to be in a band again, I miss being on stage (man) and for me nothing comes close to the feeling of really going for it and being part of a live experience.
So I had a look and around and yep, an 8 piece original funk band wanted a keyboard player!
Make a long story short, I've joined this band........
http://www.greycooperloveparty.co.uk
I've always loved funky music since I was a little kid, we have done 2 gigs so for and one more on Friday.
We sound pretty good even if say so myself, I'm hoping to get in on the writing front and there is a small version of the band that are going to gig as a blues group and I'll be part of that too.
Here's a video of the band, the old keys player is on the video..
.
The two gigs were killer and the guys can really play! Man, do I get hot on stage though, phew!
All of this though has brought up thoughts and feelings about Vitamin F, VF is the band (duo, whatever) I formed with Chris in 2003.
After only 8 months of knowing each other we somehow ended up in Los Angeles for a month recording our stuff, it was a total total insane experience and I think we thought we were bound for international notoriety.
Ha, nearly 7 years later we are about as notorious as the bingo caller downtown.
We have to own up I feel and admit that we could have done more to self-promote, however, we do feel that our progress has been blocked, hindered etc by some spiritual fucking darkness that just does not want out sound to reach the ears of others.
Here's a little sample of VF (sorry if you already seen these)
If VF did somehow go by the wayside I would be truly traumatised, I feel so strongly that our songs have so much to give and the new stuff we have written is off the hook!
We have a meeting on Monday to devise a masterplan revamp our website etc, so I'm hoping that we will overcome the things that might wanna write us off.
Speaking of websites, I should be uploading at least one connected to all that I do hopefully in the next two weeks.
Wow, anybody still reading this????
Can I say hello to my new friends on here..Abrielle, floral_fancy ,jessizzle, scribbler and pomegranate. (Woah, I just realised they're all girls!!!! How bizarre!)
Not to forget all my shit hot mates on here of course! Give some love to little_em if you get sec, hard times, hard times sadly.
Right that's fucking it! See you later!
XXXXXXXXXXX
p.s. This set
http://suicidegirls.com/members/Sharyn/albums/site/15224/
by Sharyn is the dogs man!
Erm, I get a bit reluctant to write regularly as I want to avoid the Twitter thing of "I had X,Y and Z for breakfast", yet maybe a little update is due.
The training is now a thing of the past thank goodness although for a while I did keep having flashbacks, my boss thinks I might have post-traumatic stress! I think my week away just took the edge off the impact that it has had on me, seriously chaps never consider two years of a masters in 10 months, well, consider it if you are masochistic!
I'm in my base 5 days a week now and I see 5 people per day, I work at a high intensity level which means I see people who have very complex issues and often they have been endured for a very long time i.e. 20 years.
Funny thing is the more complex the problem(s) the more I enjoy it and as I've said before after working for myself for all those years working in an organisation is a breeze!
My commute is a little heavy on me 150 miles per day, my little Smart car has done 30,000 miles in a year, but I'm so sure the area we want to move to will benefit us big time, the vibe is a lot calmer than I'm use to, it's close to the sea and the houses are much more affordable. Just please somebody buy my current crib so I can move.
What else, I had the idea the other day that I badly wanted/needed to be in a band again, I miss being on stage (man) and for me nothing comes close to the feeling of really going for it and being part of a live experience.
So I had a look and around and yep, an 8 piece original funk band wanted a keyboard player!
Make a long story short, I've joined this band........
http://www.greycooperloveparty.co.uk
I've always loved funky music since I was a little kid, we have done 2 gigs so for and one more on Friday.
We sound pretty good even if say so myself, I'm hoping to get in on the writing front and there is a small version of the band that are going to gig as a blues group and I'll be part of that too.
Here's a video of the band, the old keys player is on the video..
.
The two gigs were killer and the guys can really play! Man, do I get hot on stage though, phew!
All of this though has brought up thoughts and feelings about Vitamin F, VF is the band (duo, whatever) I formed with Chris in 2003.
After only 8 months of knowing each other we somehow ended up in Los Angeles for a month recording our stuff, it was a total total insane experience and I think we thought we were bound for international notoriety.
Ha, nearly 7 years later we are about as notorious as the bingo caller downtown.
We have to own up I feel and admit that we could have done more to self-promote, however, we do feel that our progress has been blocked, hindered etc by some spiritual fucking darkness that just does not want out sound to reach the ears of others.
Here's a little sample of VF (sorry if you already seen these)
If VF did somehow go by the wayside I would be truly traumatised, I feel so strongly that our songs have so much to give and the new stuff we have written is off the hook!
We have a meeting on Monday to devise a masterplan revamp our website etc, so I'm hoping that we will overcome the things that might wanna write us off.
Speaking of websites, I should be uploading at least one connected to all that I do hopefully in the next two weeks.
Wow, anybody still reading this????
Can I say hello to my new friends on here..Abrielle, floral_fancy ,jessizzle, scribbler and pomegranate. (Woah, I just realised they're all girls!!!! How bizarre!)
Not to forget all my shit hot mates on here of course! Give some love to little_em if you get sec, hard times, hard times sadly.
Right that's fucking it! See you later!
XXXXXXXXXXX
p.s. This set
http://suicidegirls.com/members/Sharyn/albums/site/15224/
by Sharyn is the dogs man!
