Yesterday

[jacey]

Had a visitation from a young band yesterday. We're thinking of having them on our label.
The Paul McKenna Band. Take a listen and see what you think. As an added bonus, one of the bandmembers brought his wife down and she's an embryonic writer. Just a few years out of university and interested in writing detective fiction. I pointed her at mevennen's Chen books, of course. We left the menfolk talking geek stuff in the studio and had good writing talk. I've told her about LJ, too.

Still thinking about music...mevennen are you still interested in getting together on that witchcraft CD?

Comments

[green-knight.livejournal.com]

I'm afraid I'll have to come back to this when I have more time and less stress in my life :-(

My impression of the Corries is different from yours - maybe I've been lucky in that the bits I've heard (Best of the Corries CD) is different from their average - they've always struck me as a pub band, with lewd asides and giggly attacks on the live tracks, and great drive.

On the other hand, I've discovered two bands that were completely new to me - one is the Sawdoctors, and I don't think that without this discussion I would have stopped to pick up a CD today by some guys in town today. They're called the Huckleberries and play a mixture of folk and bluegrass which is weirder and much better than it sounds.

[birdsedge.livejournal.com]

I love finding new music. I'm listening to the Huckleberries right now on myspace. Fantastic stuff. yes I can see why you'd like that. Though for preference I always choose song bands to tune bands for most applications of musical consumption. I might like to play a Huckleberries CD as background music, but I'd probably not go and see them in concert because I'm as much engaged by the words as the tune in a concert situation.

Having said that I'm not a huge fan of having music on in the background. I tend to think music should be listened to not treated as musical wallpaper. I'm one of those people who hates piped music in restaurants and public places. If it's something I like (say a golden oldie) I'll embarrass myself and others by stopping conversations to listen or by singing along to it and if it's something I don't like... why would I want to listen to it?

I think it comes from being in the business for so long. I'm weird about music and very picky. I probably don't listen to nearly enough new stuff.