21st March 2004

Purlieu is looking interesting now. Things in the US are busy, I’m not sure what the situation with Joe is at the moment, so the release may be just on Second Thought Records. I’ll know within the week, hopefully.

And, with that nearing its close (hopefully), I’ve started rearranging my other projects. So Far So Good is now officially dead. The artist has been removed from Second Thought Records (what with Anticipated Lies and Autumn being deleted already, and no forthcoming material planned, it seemed pointless), but the plans I had for the next album are probably going to pop up later, but that idea’s still in the works.

Elsewhere, I’ve been touching up some other stuff on the new Second Thought tracks. Expect to hear some acoustic guitar in there.

I think music should act as a nice diversion to the number of little problems mounting up elsewhere in my life.

31st January 2004

I linked a few of the Purlieu videos to EBB today, just for some comments, but also asking if people want to help out. I’m doing a 5 minute promo video for the album, and have tons of raw video footage, but have no way of actually making a video for it… if anybody thinks they’d like to give it a go, there’s only a copy of Purlieu in it for you, but the thread’s here. Thanks mucho.

Not been concentrating on music much for a few days… found myself a girlfriend, Lucy, so I’ve not been travelling through dark, destructive urban soundscapes of late. Mind you, I’ve suddenly got back into FSOL and Orbital, so maybe inspiration lies ahead.

18th January 2004

Bit more work on some tracks. Just some mixing and stuff. Structure-wise, two songs are pretty much complete, although lots of content is still needed. I have two half-structured tracks, too. I’m thinking of maybe including the ‘This is what happens when I am sad’ doodle I did over the summer. It certainly gives that hopeless, trapped feel I’m going for with the album. Chaos you have no control over, and the feeling of helplessness that goes with it. One of these days, I’ll do a happy song.

Still done no photography. I really should.

16th January 2004

It’s at times like these I think I work too fast on my music. Got this little droney thing going. What originally started out as a Radiohead remix for their Loophole thing eventually ended up as a track of my own. Long drones and squeaky sounds. No idea where it’s going. It’ll need a lot of work, though, so maybe I’m not moving too fast. I should probably do some more photography. I may do that tomorrow… no plans otherwise.