I realised that my blog had no useful links, so here are some:
Our Myspace
www.myspace.com/porpoiserock
Katie Fitzgerald's Pub
www.myspace.com/katiefitzgeralds
Thursday, 26 February 2009
Rebasser
This bit is going to be kind of semi-third-person, at least for a while;
seems like it will be easier that way.
Porpoise has had a rather dramatic week.
On Tuesday 17th of this month, Doctor Jonathaniel Behrendt, was recalled by Special Branch for a series of Top Secret Black Ops, Codename: Operation Classified, documented in MI?'s notorious Invisble Dossier.
Jon's two year stay in Porpoise had given him the time he needed to lay low & train his body & mind to optimum performance, & he thanked the innocent civillian members of the band on behalf of The Queen, Elizabeth the Second, & the Jude0-Christian God, God.
The cover story for all of this excitement & adventure is that he is going to be returning to his spawning-ground of Weybridge, Surreyshire, where he can drive his girl's car & impersonate a faun without attracting too much attention. He will probably do some kind of music again, on his little guitar, I'd have thought.
He will also be scurrying to various locations around the globe. It's alright for some!
The less work-shy(!) members of Porpoise immediately set to work on a solution to fill the booming void that being bassless had rended in their sound.
They considered all options, including various configurations of the band as a three-piece, which they had done before to heroic success. This particular answer would have meant re-arranging the new tunes that Pete, The Dave, & Gaz, had been working on over the last couple of months.
The new, fairly complex tunes, with all the twin lead. If one of the existing Porp-axemen switched to four strings & sub-frequencies, what would happen to all the twin lead?
Although, if it came to it, Porpoise would undoubtedly have "pulled one out of the bag", the band were blessed with an offer of a bassist from alleged "Ambient Disco Boy" & Inertia Blooms mouth, Mitch. That bassist is Jarrod Jad Hill, a golden moose of a man, & already a known associate & indeed friend of The Dave's.
Pete met up with Jad on Saturday night, they fell in love, & the deal was sealed.
Pete, Dave, & Gaz recorded 5 of their new tunes in a kind of "bass karaoke" style at practoise on Tuesday, & Jaddy will be attending his first jam with "The Band" on Sunday.
Exciting!
So, we lost a bassist; then we found a bassist. Classic.
Anyhow, the new songs continue to shape up really well in a kind of giant-robot-classic/country-rock kind of way. Like friendly evil. Wooooooooooogh.
New artwork is surfacing on our Myspace, still producing it in quite an ad-hoc kind of way, & thinking about different methods to explore. Also, we're working on the lyrics for the new tunes at the moment, & are trying to make it so that the artwork & the words will progessively become more cohesive.
By the time we've got the album ready, we are hoping to have something really amazing!
Also, we now have a gig before our projected comeback in May;
a benefit for Sidney Keane, on the 16th of April @ Katie Fitzgerald's,
where all money raised will go to help out dogs who are having a rubbish time.
The Dave,
x
seems like it will be easier that way.
Porpoise has had a rather dramatic week.
On Tuesday 17th of this month, Doctor Jonathaniel Behrendt, was recalled by Special Branch for a series of Top Secret Black Ops, Codename: Operation Classified, documented in MI?'s notorious Invisble Dossier.
Jon's two year stay in Porpoise had given him the time he needed to lay low & train his body & mind to optimum performance, & he thanked the innocent civillian members of the band on behalf of The Queen, Elizabeth the Second, & the Jude0-Christian God, God.
The cover story for all of this excitement & adventure is that he is going to be returning to his spawning-ground of Weybridge, Surreyshire, where he can drive his girl's car & impersonate a faun without attracting too much attention. He will probably do some kind of music again, on his little guitar, I'd have thought.
He will also be scurrying to various locations around the globe. It's alright for some!
The less work-shy(!) members of Porpoise immediately set to work on a solution to fill the booming void that being bassless had rended in their sound.
They considered all options, including various configurations of the band as a three-piece, which they had done before to heroic success. This particular answer would have meant re-arranging the new tunes that Pete, The Dave, & Gaz, had been working on over the last couple of months.
The new, fairly complex tunes, with all the twin lead. If one of the existing Porp-axemen switched to four strings & sub-frequencies, what would happen to all the twin lead?
Although, if it came to it, Porpoise would undoubtedly have "pulled one out of the bag", the band were blessed with an offer of a bassist from alleged "Ambient Disco Boy" & Inertia Blooms mouth, Mitch. That bassist is Jarrod Jad Hill, a golden moose of a man, & already a known associate & indeed friend of The Dave's.
Pete met up with Jad on Saturday night, they fell in love, & the deal was sealed.
Pete, Dave, & Gaz recorded 5 of their new tunes in a kind of "bass karaoke" style at practoise on Tuesday, & Jaddy will be attending his first jam with "The Band" on Sunday.
Exciting!
So, we lost a bassist; then we found a bassist. Classic.
Anyhow, the new songs continue to shape up really well in a kind of giant-robot-classic/country-rock kind of way. Like friendly evil. Wooooooooooogh.
New artwork is surfacing on our Myspace, still producing it in quite an ad-hoc kind of way, & thinking about different methods to explore. Also, we're working on the lyrics for the new tunes at the moment, & are trying to make it so that the artwork & the words will progessively become more cohesive.
By the time we've got the album ready, we are hoping to have something really amazing!
Also, we now have a gig before our projected comeback in May;
a benefit for Sidney Keane, on the 16th of April @ Katie Fitzgerald's,
where all money raised will go to help out dogs who are having a rubbish time.
The Dave,
x
Thursday, 12 February 2009
February Update
February is upon us and the songwriting is going well. We had the basics jammed out a month or two ago but it's the fine tuning and adding extra twists that takes the time. We have been working on three new ideas in the last month. All with working titles 'Chunky' , 'Math' & 'Rancho Relaxo'.
'Rancho' seemed the hardest to fix together. After jamming for nearly an hour and coming up with what seemed like a whole new song (or could have been a Fugazi cast off) we decided the best part, which had some guitar harmonics was worth keeping. We ended up writing a new intro and adding both bits forcefully to Rancho and forging a whole new song. The new tunes are sounding pretty damn good at the mo. Dave's been adding some words to a few of them as we go along. There's certainly an abstract World War II theme going on.
We want to get these songs right before we gig them. I think we have improved as a band because of the hard work we have put in. Gaz has some fuckin A drum parts, i don't know what he's been doing but he wants to keep it up!
We'll prob post a rehearsal recording when we a re a bit more ahppy with what we are doing to give you an idea of the kind of direction we've taken.
Cheers!
P
'Rancho' seemed the hardest to fix together. After jamming for nearly an hour and coming up with what seemed like a whole new song (or could have been a Fugazi cast off) we decided the best part, which had some guitar harmonics was worth keeping. We ended up writing a new intro and adding both bits forcefully to Rancho and forging a whole new song. The new tunes are sounding pretty damn good at the mo. Dave's been adding some words to a few of them as we go along. There's certainly an abstract World War II theme going on.
We want to get these songs right before we gig them. I think we have improved as a band because of the hard work we have put in. Gaz has some fuckin A drum parts, i don't know what he's been doing but he wants to keep it up!
We'll prob post a rehearsal recording when we a re a bit more ahppy with what we are doing to give you an idea of the kind of direction we've taken.
Cheers!
P
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