A couple of days ago I finally decided to GET ON WITH IT! ‘It’ being the first Burnfm.com Battle of the Bands. We’ve scheduled it for the 26th March (thursday before term ends.) I’m currently on a desperate search for the organisers of Vale Fest so that I can negociate a slot on one of their [...]
Entries from January 2009
January 25, 2009
Fancy editing…
I’ve often watched videos on Youtube which are cut together to show the musician performing each of the instruments in the song. Two notable musicians who are very good at this are Julia Nunes and Jenny Rafferty. I think the usual way of making these types of videos is to use editing software and mixing [...]
January 16, 2009
Created in Birmingham wins Best UK Blog
Created in Birmingham has won the 2008 Best Uk Blog in the Weblog awards. Hurrah! This has pretty much entirely been down to Chris Unitt who has been entirely dedicated to the site for over a year and is now handing over editorial duties to Kate Spragg. Thanks also must go to fellow nominee Pete Ashton who gracefully [...]
January 10, 2009
My blog of the er…weekend?
Today I read fellow ‘Ward surname sharer’ Andy Ward’s blog and decided that you should too… ta da! http://andywardtalkstohimself.wordpress.com/
January 10, 2009
Looking for my Nature Boy
This is an early incarnation of ‘Nature Boy’ which I wrote with my friend Fuzz. I was teaching her some simple chords for uke and she told me about a scenario which she wanted to turn into a song and hey presto! When Fuzz was still at school she was ‘in love’ with a boy [...]
January 5, 2009
Get Frank setlist no.1
I have decided to start doing ‘dry runs’ (um…less dodgy than it sounds I hope!) for when I do proper gigs. At the mo my voice is a bit sore so I can’t push it too much but hey… What I plan to do is divide my songs into four song groups or ‘Get Frank [...]
January 2, 2009
Skins: Courting controversy for the sake of it?
This is the first full trailer for teen focused drama, Skins. The third series will focus on former lead character Tony’s sister Effie, and her friends. I’m looking forward to a casting change as I felt that the former characters lacked something (um…realism?) Skins is one of those marmite programmes. I personally find it irritating, [...]
