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August 18, 2023

The 12th of August 1989 which was a Saturday was one of the changing points of my life and partly made me the person I am today. It was late around 10ish at night which isn’t that late in my eyes but is for the four-year-old me. My mum caught wind of an event happening in a place called   Longwick in Buckinghamshire and she really wanted to see some live acts as at some or even most events you would get some sort of live performance by underground artists who were popularised by rave culture. I have a brother older than me by a couple of years and we each used to have a babysitter to look after us while my mum went out and let her hair down. As my brother was babysat by this person and I had my own babysitter and on the pretence that I would sleep the night away it was decided that I would go with my mum to this event. The event was called Sunrise Back To The Future and was if not the biggest event the Acid House promoters Sunrise and Back To The Future put on. It was hosted on a field off the M25 (a motorway/highway junction) and brought in thousands of people on this one field to party the night away. Being in the car on the motorway/highway and seeing in the distance what I now know to be a Ferris wheel and other fairground rides I thought that was funny I didn’t know they did circus at night and was new to me. Also to explain it wasn’t just Acid House music and live acts there were bouncy castles,  coffee stands, fairground rides, face painting and so much more and involved smaller businesses around the UK in order to put on the show. I remember walking through the field of the carpark and into the crowd and seeing all these people who looked aggressive but were friendly like anything which was confusing. It was also confusing seeing people on this field in dusk light due to the stage lights and other lights dotted around I really couldn’t put two and two together and was wondering what all these people were doing and being up so late or though I was four so being up in this darkness. Like my mum predicted I went back to sleep up until I was awoken by the promoter onstage who thanked the other promoters and took a five-minute breather for everyone to soak up the sunrise which was coming over the horizon and such a beautiful thing to look at. This was another turning point for me as I had never seen the sun peer over the horizon before and I started to wonder about the sun and its purpose. Thanks to UK kid’s shows like Playdays a popular children’s TV show from the 80s and early 90s I knew it was called The Sun but I didn’t know its purpose or understand the solar system but I did know or wonder that the sun was very hot due to the proximity of being close to it.  The crowd clapped, cheered and whistled as we all took several glances at the new day’s sun before the live acts came on the stage to perform in front of the crowd and carry on with the party vibe which was in full swing.  

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Music News – New EP; The Rough With The Smooth

August 7, 2023

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07/08/2023 - New EP; The Rough With The Smooth

Another House EP I made about a month or two ago now but I just released it. The summer is nearly over so I probably start concentrating on doing more synths stuff and maybe my winter albums sometime. I still don’t know what to do whether it be Christmas or just winter or both who knows? I did my Halloween album for this year and can be found on all major platforms it’s called Tales Of The Darkside. I named the EP Rough with the Smooth as of course in life that’s how it is and I’ve done a full circle and came back the other way due to my mental health and the stresses of the jobs I was doing at the time. It was either staying and getting paid for what I enjoy doing in life or retiring early and working on my mental health and recovering from an already stressful world but on the possibility of me coming back and doing it again as the door was always open. I choose my mental health as I thought I could recover and come back and to be honest, this was in the 2000s by the way but it all vanished from my mind and I only remembered a couple of years ago when I was thinking back to the 2000s and before that. It was after the September 11th attacks the world got a bit downhill and things were being cancelled or put on hold which is when I was the most active but I saw the funding for things go down the drain and people lose their jobs it was quite stressful. I’m not that actual cut-throat when it comes to getting the job some people are just overbearing but at the same time, they do have their reasons. This is how I learned to take the rough with the smooth and not feel hard done by or take pity on myself as I never and I thought after all those years from the early 90s to 2005 I should take a rest as I always was on the go and living a happy and vibrant life. Now I like to stay in I used to have my dog Patch but I had to put her down due to old age which is another rough with the smooth outcome as I knew she wouldn’t live forever but I do miss her and going out a lot with her I live near to the country in the outskirts of Bristol in the UK so it was nice to get out and walk the country. Once I got stuck up a tree when the cows decided to charge me so I ran with my dog and kept her on the tree as I was taking pictures of my dog in her own world as she sat up the tree. In the end, I took charge and climbed down as they wouldn’t go then they decided to chase me down to the entrance where I escaped, she was a good dog though and I vow never to get another one because she was that good. I like to wake up every day with something new to do and that is something I am lacking at the moment which is something I would like to improve on but apart from being on the computer day and night it gets boring I like to get out there and do something new or old. 

Music News – New EP; Catch Me At Recess

July 29, 2023

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27/07/2023 - New EP; Catch Me Recess

I made another House EP of Dancy tracks so more of the same as I seem to have gotten back into the habits of making rave tracks or what I call House/rave tracks. The EP is House but with two Break tracks which I sandwiched in between the other two tracks on the EP. I called it Catch Me At Recess as yet again more childish petty behaviour and mostly to Brexit but I won’t get into it but I will say this there seems to be a lot of monkies laying around who are quick to call themselves racist like it’s fashionable or a fashion statement. I don’t know what’s up with this earth we live on I know what I did and I know what I saw or heard and doing my own fact-checks on things is how I get to the bottom of things but people will lie for clout and this so-called power. Honestly, we are living with power-mad junkies who want to lord it over the normal people or so say, normal people. It’s not even the ones in power it’s this cancel culture we now live in and too many people with time on their hands. I mean to cancel someone they need to be the worst person out there and what I see is people with their opinions getting shouted out for believing something that mostly makes sense to any normal person. Don’t get me wrong I’m for change and for people to be heard and to change society one step at a time but when it turns into a shouting match it turns me off especially when it’s getting silly and weird. I like to have debates and be inappropriate sometimes it doesn’t make me a bad person and what I mean by it is mostly innocent as somehow I remove all the negativity out of it like the word spaz something I know isn’t a nice word to use but I mean you are having an unnecessary tantrum. I don’t really use slurs and especially racism but I never think disable people when it comes to the word spaz. I think we are living in a nanny state where the people in cotton wool jackets are patrolling the areas looking for someone to cancel or to go barny to. It’s kind of shocking how many outraged people there are maybe it’s the technology and the fact we now share everything actual that starts from scrapbooks or wedding and holiday photo collections everyone does or used to do. It’s shocking how many people rage on the streets and in shops there is nothing wrong with everyone losing it but there is such a thing as not causing too much of a scene I learned that the hard way and no I’m not a Karen. I’m not one to play childish games or be petty and I rather ignore it or talk about it as when I get mad I do get mad like Hulk mad and I don’t want to end up doing something stupid in the long run which is why I have my temper in check. I like to laugh a lot makes me happy and move but sometimes I’m not in the mood to be laughing and gun people down I wouldn’t do it in public like scream and shout and most of all act like a two-year-old. As I said I don’t play games and the haters can catch me at recess since we have gone into your time machine I have stolen from you but pushed you in and ended up in the school years of my life. It’s so sad to watch grown-ass people act like spoilt privileged brats.

Music News – New EP; Fairy Tales For Dummies

July 27, 2023

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27/07/2023 - New EP; Fairy Tales For Dummies

Another House EP of clubby vibes seems to be what I’m making a lot of at the moment as it is or meant to be summer. I say that as the weather hasn’t been that nice the last time it was nice and hot with the sun out was around early June maybe late May I can’t remember but I wished it would be nice again but still doesn’t dampen the mood it just feels better. I called it fairy tales for dummies as I just thought it was a good title but also there is a lot of lies and misunderstanding in the world and with the internet and website like YouTube it’s easy to spread misunderstanding and lies and people are quick to believe whatever they said. I mean I like YouTube don’t get me wrong it is where I am the most and spend a lot of time there but I do get a bit bored when I see gossip channels and other outlets spread all these rumours without showing one part of factual evidence but speaking a lot of things. Again, I’m kind of for the gossip when they have something juicy I do tune in and watch the story but it has to be good and someone I know not some YouTube I’ve never heard of. That’s not me shady cos I know they are liked and known but a lot of people like the younger crowd on there are more likely to know them but I must admit some of them I’m glad I found out about them even though they are not people I would watch as it’s not thing IE makeup channels. I do engage in speculation, rumours and conspiracies but as I said a few times now it leads me down the wrong path so now I am a bit hesitant about what to believe and consume myself with as I like to get to the truth but when it becomes shady and damn right weird and stupid I turn off as I don’t believe in those sort of fairy tales that’s not the fairy tale that would come to mind. My fairy tale would be about getting out of poverty or overcoming a major hurdle in your life or even moving away abroad but I think everyone has their own image when you think fairy tale life oh rich and success without fame is another thing I would call a fairy tale that I would call and go to. It’s not the fact they are spreading lies and misinforming people it’s the fact it makes people look and feel stupid when they hear about something or found out that just wasn’t true plus I don’t believe in slandering people without them slandering them you first or without having proof and you know I keep it hot and truthful. Anyway, I am not at school no more and local gossip is a killer and something I don’t interact with but it starts a lot of trouble I just want to get on with my day and do something creative like making music. 

Music News – New Album; Tales Of The Dark Side

July 24, 2023

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22/07/2023 - New Album; Tales Of The Dark Side

Halloween has come early this year with this year’s album. The tracks are a bit longer than usual as they mostly have intros at the beginning of the track which I enjoyed making them and was a bit different and something I don’t usually do. Still, I felt like something special for Halloween and for it to be dark and melodic. It’s precisely 4 EPs in one album with different concepts for each EP. The first one, Messy Future, is about a dystopian future and the start of the end of mankind. The second one Welcome To The Circus is about a haunted circus that goes from town to town haunting the spectators with their horrific acts and brutal ways.  The third EP is about being in a haunted house of this girl who lived there since she died of the common cold in Victorian times now she chases people out with her haunting ways. The last part of the EP or album is remixes of the songs on the album and I couldn’t think of another story so I just decided to do some remixes I know people like House music so I did that instead. It was going to be another Synthscape but I couldn’t find a long enough bit to make the Synthscape up and I decided it was good for an intro on an album and then I decided to make more intros and make the songs longer. The FXs on the intros are mangled-up audio of a mix I made it came out funny the first time and I managed to duplicate how it came out and made my synth-scapes out of them which are mangled audio with synthesizers I played over the mangled sounds and is what the FXs on this album is as well. I must admit it’s hard to keep coming up with stuff for Halloween and Christmas, I like to make something interesting and something I don’t or haven’t done and I’ve been making Halloween and Christmas music since 2017 and it’s getting harder each year which is why I like to do concept albums quite a lot as it’s gives me more to think about and be more creative with. This year it’s all twists and plots and I enjoyed making the music as well as the intros. I did have some old Halloween EPs I was meant to put out but was too busy and forgot about them too but I put the best one on the EP which was the Welcome To The Circus EP I made that 2019. I do hope to sell some of the songs to TV and film I know the intros sound interesting I don’t know about the songs themselves but I’m using Ditto Music a music distributor which lets you release music to all the major music platforms like Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer, YouTube Music and many more for £19 a year but they have a publishing offer for £30 to pitch your songs to sellers in the TV and Film fields so I’m going for that. I am a bit sceptical but we will see I am hopeful though as I think some of my songs are good stuff for TV but I’m not the expert.  As you might of tell I like to use my imagination and it’s good to think of a whole plot without actually writing them down as I like quick things even though I do enjoy making stories and fake characters up it’s always fun but I would write a book but it takes too long.  I like to be serious too and do more serious stuff like this album I made it was another fun way to get creative and do a concept EPs or album but what to do for next year or Christmas….??????>>>>>stay tuned!!!!!