Welcome to the first post of the blog. Do people still read blogs?
Anyway this blog will cover my escapades on the road with my bands, my home studio, gear reviews, opinion pieces, and just general non-sensical babbling, probably laced with far too many Simpsons quotes, as was the style at the time.
I have been meaning to create a personal website for a long time now, but my life and career have taken many twists and turns over the last couple of years (as it has for most of us).
Much of what I will be covering in these posts is what I had intended to be covering on an undoubtedly much more ‘hip’ media platform in youtube. However after having to move house in spring 2021, I have found myself without a suitable recording space for video or audio (not to mention i severely lack the charisma and immunity to acting super-cringey to be a ‘youtuber’ of any note).
I do of course have one or two videos on there so do pop by and have a watch!
It seemed a logical solution to go back to the good old written word and pictures format. You are quite safe from the nail-bitingly annoying ‘Hi Guys!!!!!’ intro here.
The house I moved into has a brick outbuilding to the rear of the garden, which on paper would make a great music / youtube studio (and still will eventually), however I gradually discovered I had been sold an absolute lemon by the previous owners, not just on the outbuilding, but also on the main house itself, finding wave after wave of building bodge and structural issue, all of which they graciously neglected to mention to me so they could make their sale.
First came the unexpected flooding! It never occurred to me when viewing the property, that the owners had all their ‘garage’ items lifted off the concrete on wooden pallets for a reason (other than a seemingly neat storage solution)
One fateful day in the early summer of 2021 showed me EXACTLY why they had risen their belongings off the ground, when a particularly bad rainstorm proceeded to flood the outbuilding to a height of at least 2-2.5 inches front to back.
Not particularly the best environment for storing water/moisture-shy wooden guitars, or indeed expensive electrical audio equipment. Had I been wearing my flood pants, my feet would have been wet, but my cuffs would have been bone dry, and everything would have been coming up Milhouse. Sadly alas, nothing was bone dry!
In the months that followed, the old wooden door (about as water tight as a colander) was removed, bricked up, and a soak-away added to prevent water from rising up at the point where the old doorway was, and with that, the conversion journey had begun!
Now just to figure out where to put all the garden items that I need to take out of there in order to convert it hmmmmm.
Until next time……..Bye Guys!!!!!!!!