The Spider Hill is dead, long live The Spider Hill

Hello all
I’m not going to be posting here any more, as I’ve bought a URL and some web space and am going to make some attempt at doing this thing properly. My new blog is over at www.thespiderhill.com, so please readjust your bookmarks, feeds and very kind links accordingly.
The new space is going to be [...]

From Light To Sound recording – day one

The recording continues apace. Yesterday was a day in the studio recording drum and guitar parts for three tracks, ending at 11pm… this morning we kicked off at 10am recording synth and bass parts, then we’ll move onto rough mixes.
Here are a few photos from yesterday’s recording session…

Messing about with Storytlr

I’ve been messing about with Storytlr today, which to all intents seems to be an altogether swisher and nicer-looking way of aggregating your online activity than the somewhat utilitarian Friendfeed. It’s kinda neat – plug in your networks, from Flickr to Last.fm, give it a date span, and it produces an editable ’story’ made up [...]

Recording my new band

Exciting times ahead this weekend, as my new band From Light To Sound (although it’s been going for a year, so I should probably stop calling it ‘new’) goes into the studio this weekend to record our first tracks together.
It should be an interesting process for me particularly, as I’ve never done a ‘traditional’ recording [...]

Nice Country Walk

In the absence of anything better to write about, ravaged as I am by a minor illness, here’s a collage of some nice pics from today’s Nice Country Walk out at the White Horse in Uffington…