I had a good chat with Jen last night. The long and the short of it is that we've decided to meet up in London and have dinner together next week.
She was talking about the thing I talked about a few posts ago, when we saw Zed in the crowd at Croydon. It turns out after all these years that she actually saw him in the crowd too. She isn't sure now why she wouldn't admit it, but it was something to do with being so angry with him and not wanting to raise Beth's hopes. I can't say I really understand, but hey ho.
I'm feeling positive about how this project is all going. I'm not making huge progress but on the other hand I only have limited time, having a full-time job. The big milestone is going to be putting something up on Neal's website, which shouldn't be too far away.
Tuesday 20 February 2007
Thursday 15 February 2007
Spam
Good news today, and an odd coincidence.
A good friend of mine, Neal, has a music project called Electronic Voice Phenomenon. He recorded an album a couple of years back which was completely instrumental. Since then, I've sung on a few tracks of his which he hasn't released.
Anyway, he's now putting a website together to host his music, and he's very kindly offered to host the stuff I'm doing too. The music of the The Empty Vessel will therefore have a home in cyberspace on www.fournotes.co.uk. There's nothing there at the moment but there will be soon, as I'm going to mix down a version of 'Face In The Crowd, Part IV' (the 'timeless' movement) and put it on there.
The odd coincidence? I got some spam yesterday. Normally I get loads of spam and it's full of nonsense. This one was sent from the usual spoof email address but the message just said 'Are you just a face in the crowd? Stand out from the rest!' followed by a link which of course I didn't follow. Think I'm reading too much into this? The subject was 'A world of your own'.
A good friend of mine, Neal, has a music project called Electronic Voice Phenomenon. He recorded an album a couple of years back which was completely instrumental. Since then, I've sung on a few tracks of his which he hasn't released.
Anyway, he's now putting a website together to host his music, and he's very kindly offered to host the stuff I'm doing too. The music of the The Empty Vessel will therefore have a home in cyberspace on www.fournotes.co.uk. There's nothing there at the moment but there will be soon, as I'm going to mix down a version of 'Face In The Crowd, Part IV' (the 'timeless' movement) and put it on there.
The odd coincidence? I got some spam yesterday. Normally I get loads of spam and it's full of nonsense. This one was sent from the usual spoof email address but the message just said 'Are you just a face in the crowd? Stand out from the rest!' followed by a link which of course I didn't follow. Think I'm reading too much into this? The subject was 'A world of your own'.
Sunday 4 February 2007
A Face In The Crowd
Very pleased - lots of progress made on 'A Face In The Crowd'. It's our massive prog rock epic and out of all our songs it's the one I'm most keen to get right. Especially because of its importance in the band's history.
This is going to sound pretentious - but hey ho, that's prog for you. It's essentially a one movement symphony in six sections. After a slow introduction, the second section is fast, and completely conforms to the rules of sonata form. The third is a classic slow movement and it's followed by a movement that is intended to sound 'timeless'. There's a brief faster movement before the final section, which is the only section of the song which has vocals. It ties together all the themes of the previous sections, which are themselves based on a single extended theme.
The lyrics to 'A Face In The Crowd' are based on an incident which happened six months or so after we lost Zed. We were doing a small gig in Croydon and halfway through 'A Force Of Nature' I saw him in the audience. I have no doubt it was him - and I'm also pretty sure he was grinning at me. Graham saw him too - thank goodness, otherwise I'd have looked pretty stupid, but Jen and Beth always maintained we'd imagined it. In fact, Beth got really angry and didn't speak to me for several days, even though we were gigging.
If I try to pinpoint a moment where it all went wrong between me and Beth it was probably that night. That, and of course the evening we both got totally wrecked and ended up in bed together.
This is going to sound pretentious - but hey ho, that's prog for you. It's essentially a one movement symphony in six sections. After a slow introduction, the second section is fast, and completely conforms to the rules of sonata form. The third is a classic slow movement and it's followed by a movement that is intended to sound 'timeless'. There's a brief faster movement before the final section, which is the only section of the song which has vocals. It ties together all the themes of the previous sections, which are themselves based on a single extended theme.
The lyrics to 'A Face In The Crowd' are based on an incident which happened six months or so after we lost Zed. We were doing a small gig in Croydon and halfway through 'A Force Of Nature' I saw him in the audience. I have no doubt it was him - and I'm also pretty sure he was grinning at me. Graham saw him too - thank goodness, otherwise I'd have looked pretty stupid, but Jen and Beth always maintained we'd imagined it. In fact, Beth got really angry and didn't speak to me for several days, even though we were gigging.
If I try to pinpoint a moment where it all went wrong between me and Beth it was probably that night. That, and of course the evening we both got totally wrecked and ended up in bed together.
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