09062007-2030

And here's a preview of my current SongFight! entry... "The Sugar Shaker"

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09062007-2030

S'been a while since I did anything for Tuneflow, so I've knocked this out for the July tournement, it's called 'Reap What You Sow'

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21052007-1930

So moving swiftly along, here's something I knocked up in double quick time for this weeks SongFight! entitled "We We Not Meant To Be"

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We
We
We don't
We don't come from your stupid town
We don't go to your disco
We don't belong to your crowd
We don't fit in with you people

We
We
We don't
We don't play your stupid games
We don't ever need you around
We don't get your ridiculous jokes
We don't need you to make a sound

We were not not meant to be
We were not not meant to be
We were not not meant to be
We were not not meant to be
We were not not meant to be
We were not not meant to be

21052007-1915

And my NUR EIN experience is over, falling (predictably early) at the 2nd round, but in all fairness I think I did better than most expected I would (myself included!!)
here's the results and the breakdown from the judges, although there has been some controversy as one set of judges votes went AWOL!!

Here are the scores:

1. Frankie Big Face (58 )
2. Thank Glenny for the Frisbee (57)
The Bovine Recyclery (57)
4. Merisan (48 )
Abominominous (48 )
6. Paco Del Stinko (44)
7. Jim Tyrrell (34)
8. The BeWells (30)
Ross Durand (30)
Steve Durand (30)
Jolly Roger (30)
12. Tex Beaumont (27)
13. WreckdoM (20)
14. Billy's Little Trip (13)
15. Cynthia Size (11)
16. Bryan Kandel (8 )

Round Two Judges Breakdown

Judge One:
16. Thank Glenny
15. Bovine Recyclery
14. Paco Del stinko
13. Merisan
12. Abominominous
11. bewells
10. Frankie Big Face
9. Jolly Roger
8. Wreckdom
7. Cynthia size
6. Ross Durand
5. Jim tyrrell
4. Steve Durand
3. Tex Beaumont
2. Billy's Little Trip
1. Bryan Kandel

Judge Two:
16 - Frankie Big Face
15 - Bovine Recyclery
N/A - Puce
14 - Merisan
13 - Thank Glenny for the Frisbee
12 - Jim Tyrrell
11 - Steve Durand
10 - Paco Del Stinko
9 - Bewells
8 - Abominomonous
7 - Tex Beaumont and the Dirty Hearts
6 - Jolly Roger
5 - Ross Durand
4 - Billy's Little Trip
3 - Wreckdom
2 - Bryan Kandel
1 - Cynthia Size and the @eclectic sp00ns

Judge Three:
16 Frankie Big Face
15 Abominominous
14 Paco del Stinko
13 Bovine Recyclery
12 Thanks Glennny
11 Merisan
10 Ross Durand
9 Jim Tyrrell
8 Steve Durand
7 BeWells
6 Tex Beaumont
5 Billy's Little Trip
4 Wreckdom
3 Jolly Roger
2 Cynthia Size
1 Bryan Kandel

Judge Four:
16. Frankie Big Face
15. Thank Glennny for the Frisbee
n/a Puce
14. Bovine Recyclery
13. Abominominous
12. Jolly Roger
11. Caravan Ray
10. Merisan
9. Ross Durand
8. Jim Tyrrell
7. Steve Durand
6. Paco Del Stinko
5. WreckdoM
4. Bryan Kandel
3. The BeWells
2. BLT
1. Cynthia Size

18052007-1800

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14052007-2045

Nur Ein 2nd Round
Well from my reckoning this is probably going to be my final week in this years Nur Ein competition having ranked 24th out of 28 in round zero and then 20th out of 24 in round one, I'll need to finish inside the top 15 to progress, but never mind, I've had some good feedback on the boards, so without further ado, this is what I reckon will be the final mix for my round two entry called "Brownie Points" with a non-optional challenge of changes in the time signature...

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12052007-2100

NUR EIN ROUND ONE UPDATE:
Phew! scraped in again finished 20th out of 24 with the top 20 going through...
Here's the judging breakdown.

Judge One

24 Thank Glennny for the Frisbee
23 Bryan Kandel
22 Mr. Lostman
21 Billy's Little Trip
20 Calfborg
19 WreckdoM
18 Merisan
17 Puce
16 Balance Lost/ Balance Regained
15 Paco del Stinko
14 Steve Durand
13 Abominominous
12 Cynthia Size and the @eclectic spOOns
11 The BeWells
10 Frankie Big Face
9 Jim Tyrrell
8 Jolly Roger
7 The Bovine Recyclery
6 Tex Beaumont & the Dirty Hearts
5 Ross Durand
4 Rabid Garfunkel
3 Marcus Kellis
2 Ice 9
1 Sausage Boy

Judge Two

24 The BeWells
23 Paco del Stinko
22 Puce
21 Frankie Big Face
20 Balance Lost/Balance Regained
19 Steve Durand
18 Merisan
17 WreckdoM
16 Tex Beaumont & the Dirty Hearts
15 Thank Glenny for the Frisbee
14 The Bovine Recyclery
13 Calfborg
12 Abominominous
11 Mr. Lostman
10 Bryan Kandel
9 Jim Tyrrell
8 Jolly Roger
7 Rabid Garfunkel
6 Ross Durand
5 Marcus Kellis
4 Billy's Little Trip
3 Ice 9
2 Sausage Boy
1 Cynthia Size and the @eclectic spOOns

Judge Three

24 Puce
23 Frankie Big Face
22 The BeWells
21 Merisan
20 Thank Glenny for the Frisbee
19 The Bovine Recyclery
18 Paco del Stinko
17 Calfborg
16 Bryan Kandel
15 Balance Lost/Balance Regained
14 Jim Tyrrell
13 Billy's Little Trip
12 Jolly Roger
11 WreckdoM
10 Cynthia Size and the @eclectic spOOns
9 Abominominous
8 Mr. Lostman
7 Marcus Kellis
6 Ross Durand
5 Rabid Garfunkel
4 Ice 9
3 Steve Durand
2 Tex Beaumont & the Dirty Hearts
1 Sausage Boy

Judge Four

24 Ross Durand
23 Bryan Kandel
22 Puce
21 Thank Glenny for the Frisbee
20 The Bovine Recyclery
19 Balance Lost/Balance Regained
18 The BeWells
17 Frankie Big Face
16 WreckdoM
15 Jim Tyrrell
14 Paco del Stinko
13 Billy's Little Trip
12 Merisan
11 Jolly Roger
10 Abominominous
9 Cynthia Size and the @eclectic spOOns
8 Tex Beaumont & the Dirty Hearts
7 Steve Durand
6 Mr. Lostman
5 Ice 9
4 Rabid Garfunkel
3 Calfborg
2 Marcus Kellis
1 Sausage Boy

Judge Five

24 Puce
23 Billy's Little Trip
22 Paco del Stinko
21 The Bovine Recyclery
20 WreckdoM
19 Merisan
18 Thank Glenny for the Frisbee
17 Abominominous
16 The BeWells
15 Frankie Big Face
14 Steve Durand
13 Mr. Lostman
12 Bryan Kandel
11 Calfborg
10 Ross Durand
9 Balance Lost/Balance Regained
8 Tex Beaumont & the Dirty Hearts
7 Rabid Garfunkel
6 Jim Tyrrell
5 Marcus Kellis
4 Jolly Roger
3 Ice 9
2 Sausage Boy
1 Cynthia Size and the @eclectic spOOns

07052007-0830

Just found the judging breakdown for Round Zero of NUR EIN 2, looks like judge 5 was my saviour (whew!)...

Round Zero Judging Breakdown:

Judge #1:
28. Abominominous
27. Merisan
26. The Bovine Recyclery
25. Balance Lost/ Balance Regained
24. Sausage Boy
23. Calfborg
22. Puce
21. Frankie Big Face
20.
19. Paco Del Stinko
18. WreckdoM
17. Thank Glennny for the Frisbee
16. Bryan Kandel
15. Mr. Lostman
14. Jim Tyrrell
13. BLT
12. Steve Durand
11. Jolly Roger
10. Tex Beaumont
9. Ice 9
8. The BeWells
7. Ross Durand
6. Cynthia Size
5. Rabid Garfunkel
4. Marcus Kellis
3. Spinlock
2. Mico Suadad
1. MC Eric B

Judge #2:
28. Balance Lost/Balance Regained
27. Puce
26. Sausage Boy
25. Abominominous
24. Ross Durand
23. Calfborg
22. Paco del Stinko
21. Wreckdom
20. Merisan
19. Jim Tyrrell
18. BeWells
17. Rabid Garfunkel
16. Jolly Roger
15. Frankie Big Face
14. Luke Henley
13. BLT
12. Tex Beaumont
11. Ice 9
10. BK
9. Bovine Recyclery
8. Lostman
7. Marcus Kellis
6. Tx Glenny
5. Steve Durand
4. Mico Suadad
3. Spinlock
2. Eric B.
1. Cynthia Size/Eclectic Spoons

Judge #3:
28. Merisan
27. Abominominous
26. (semicoloncloseparenthesis)
25. Puce
24. Balance Lost/Balance Regained
23. Jim Tyrrell
22. Frankie Big Face
21. Paco Del Stinko
20. The Bovine Recyclery
19. The BeWells
18. Billy's Little Trip
17. Thank Glennny For The Frisbee
16. Steve Durand
15. Bryan Kandle
14. Ross Durand
13. Tex Beaumont and the Dirty Hearts
12. Rabid Garfunkel
11. Mr. Lostman
10. Ice 9
9. Jolly Roger
8. WreckdoM
7. Marcus Kellis
6. Calfborg
5. Cynthia Size and the @eclectic sp00ns
4. Spinlock
3. Sausage Boy
2. Mico Suadad
1. MC Eric B

Judge #4:
28 The BeWells
27 Jim Tyrrell
26 Merisian
25 Thank Glennny for the Frisbee
24 Puce
23 WreckdoM
22 BLT
21 Paco Del Stinko
20 Tex Beaumont
19 Balance Lost/ Balance Regained
18 Bryan Kandel
17 Frankie Big Face
16 Luke Henley
15 Abominominous
14 Steve Durand
13 Rabid Garfunkel
12 Ross Durand
11 Mr. Lostman
10 Marcus Kellis
9 The Bovine Recyclery
8 Cynthia Size
7 Jolly roger
6 MC Eric B
5 Calfborg
4 Sausage Boy
3 Ice 9
2 Spinlock
1 Mico Suadad

Judge #5:
28. Merisan
27. BeWells
26. Aboniminominous
25. Puce
24. Cynthia Size
23. Frankie Big Face
22. Balance Regained
21. Paco Del Stinko
20. Billy's Little Trip
19. Tex Beaumont
18. Jim Tyrell
17. Luke Henley
16. Thank Glenny
15. Bovine
14. BK
13. Calfborg
12. Steve Durand
11. Jolly Roger
10. Ross Durand
9. Wreckdom
8. Ice 9
7. Mr Lostman
6. MC Eric B
5. Marcus Kellis
4. Rabid Garfunkel
3. Sausage Boy
2. Spinlock
1. Mico Saudad

05052007-22:30

Well by some miracle I scraped into the 1st round proper of the Nur Ein competition, the title for round one is "Sister Cocaine" and here's my initial impression...

Sister Cocaine.mp3

30042007-1100

Okay, we're back from our Peruvian adventures and there will be some photos posted here within the week (I think!), but in more important news!! NUR EIN 2 has started and the first round is a preliminary open round with the title of "Let Me In" coupled with a non-optional challenge of unconventional Percussion... so taking a deep breathe here's my entry...

Let Me In.mp3

29032007-2245

Here's my latest SongFight! entry it's a collaboration with Charlie aka Paco del Stinko and it's called 'King Me' recorded under the name 'Eggsickle' and I think it's fabulous (but I'm biased!) the lyrical composition was co-written, the bass, drums and synths are me, and the vocals, backing vocals, Rhythm and lead guitars are all Charlie!
The guy is simply awesome!!

King Me.mp3

26032007-0830

SongFight! CoverFight! WishList!
This is a series of links to my attempts at producing cover versions of other more popular and gifted songfighters works, this all came about as a result of a SideFight! organised by 'Ken' whereby we selected one song of our own and matched that song up with all interested parties who were then selected at random and had somthing like a month to produce a cover version of the song they were allocated, after the whole thing was completed many songfighters published their lists, so I decided to why the hell not have a go at covering everything that these fine chaps wanted me to cover, enough waffle on with the links...

1. All Tan (Steve Durand Cover)
2. Let it Be (Caravan Ray Cover)
3. That's Not What I Need (Baby in the Corner Cover)
4. Ancient (Ross Durand Cover)
5. Upcoming Downtime (Rabid Garfunkel Cover)
6. Space Cadet (Heuristics Inc. Cover)
7. I'm With Steve Now (WreckdoM Cover)
8. Moscow, Idaho (Jim Tyrrell Cover)
9. Devil's Live in Quiet Ponds (X-Tokyo-River-God Cover)
10. High Time (Paco del Stinko Cover)
11. We are Perfect in our Dreams (Those Meddling Kids Cover)
12. Baba Ganoush (Sausage Boy Cover)
13. Please Don't Call Me Ken (Starfinger Cover)
14. I'm Having Trouble Concentrating (Phunt Your Friends Cover)
15. Sufficiently Intoxicated (Jolly Roger Cover)
16. ABCD Puppies (Jim of Seattle Cover)

25032007-1415

Okay, on Friday night I travelled into London with my step-daughter and her boyfriend to see a band called 'Carpetburn' the band's frontman is a guy called Pete, but who likes to go by the name 'Pedro' or 'Furrypedro'. Anyway I've had some contact with him before as he also competes on a regular basis over at SongFight! submitting under the names 'Carpetburn' and 'Those Meddling Kids'.
So as you can imagine it was a real thrill to actually get to meet him and the rest of the band, and I have to say you couldn't meet a friendlier chap, real down to earth type and not at all pretentious, and shock, horror, probe, they were pretty damned excellent live to boot!
So if you get a chance to see them live (they generally play around the Chatham area, but do venture into London every now and then) then I would surely recommend making the effort and say "Hi" to Pete and tell them spOOn sent you...

20032007-2130

Thought it was about time I made a decent list of links to my FAWM 2007 album, entitled...
INPUT:POP!

The whole album was written and created during February 2007 as part of the February Album Writing Month competition.



1. Back to Dog
2. Blue Green Planet
3. Input:Pop!
4. Purple is the Colour of Machines
5. I'm a Machine
6. Busy Clockwork People
7. Pray for Me
8. Batteries
9. CD Technology
10. Robots are Cool
11. How we got here
12. Android Heaven (Orch.)
13. It's gonna be alright
14. God Made Man Made

19032007-2015

Okay this next bit is a touch technical (for me anyway) my friend Chris (also know as Billy's Little Trip) a fine musician and jolly decent chap wanted to know what process I go through to make my (so-called) music! so the image on the right is a pictoral example for him to use in cojunction with a PM I sent him earlier, so if you're not him then ignore this and if you are then I hope this makes thing easier to understand...

God I really do go on don't I!

18032007-2015

Well it seems that there's a hold up with posting the new songs over at SongFight! so I decided to upload some cover art for the 'Gray Rainbow' fight to see if that makes a difference... (shown right, obviously!)

Also I'm hoping to spend the next week working on a collaboration with Paco del Stinko for the following weeks song title (when it gets released!) which should be really interesting.

This will be my last project before I go to Perú for three weeks, although I am thinking of making several of my FAWM tracks available to either the Vocaloid User Group or TuneFlow or maybe even both! I'll see if I can find a couple that are worthy.

11032007-2100

And just because I'm a little bored at the moment here's another one...

11032007-2000

As always work was crap yesterday, but then no surprise there! found this cool site on the internet today though which definately needs checking out...

http://www.meez.com/home.dm

That jiggling guy on the right with the headphones is me as a Meez, I just think that's really cool, but then as the old saying goes "little things please little minds".

09032007-2100

Okay I'm back to work tomorrow morning as I'm feeling lots better, I guess though I've really taken advantage of being off work as I've pretty much finished next weeks SongFight! entry which I'm posting here, just in case anybody comes this way and feels like listening to something that may or may not spoil their day...

Gray Rainbow.mp3

09032007-0900

Well it's Friday morning and the SongFight! gods have deemed my submission worthy for inclusion in the latest fight 'Couldn't Have Been Worse' submitted under the pseudonym '5900-n5'. I originally read this as 'It Couldn't Have Been Much Worse' which is basically what my tracks called, anyway check this out and the multitude of much better stuff over at SongFight! by following this link...
http://songfight.org/

Couldn't Have Been...

In futher news, Yesterday evening I uploaded my 'It Belongs To Me' track to my Tuneflow account and it's now available to preview and if you're feeling brave to buy! and this is the link for that...
http://www.tuneflow.com/artist_profile.php?aid=11618

I have my blood test results today and I also have to have my jabs for my forthcoming trip to the Peruvian Jungle throughout April, expect photos and more deposited here sometime during May!

Okay last but not least, I went to the National Hockey Stadium last night, and no, not to see the bloody MK Dons! I went to see the England Women's Football team take on the Russian Ladies, it was a resounding 6-0 victory for the three lionesses (I think that's the correct terminology!) in the first of three warm up games before they fly off to the FIFA Women's World Cup later this year in China... Hope they show it on the telly!!

08032007-1530

As promised here's the link for my Tuneflow submission 'Attraction', yeah I know I'm super impatient and went ahead and submitted anyway (even though I've still 23 days before the cut off date!)

Attraction.mp3

08032007-0930

Moved my web-site from Netfast to Mixiroo last night, because I hadn't been able to access Netfast for over two weeks, everything seemed to go well now this morning when I click on the link, it's as if Mixiroo doesn't exist!
Just goes to show you that there's no free meal ticket available (bloody internet!)

Anyway the upshot of this is, I currently have no active web-site, (I have many web-site's but none of them active).

07032007-2100

Off work today, had a blood test, feeling really lousy, but hey ho! made first draft of possible Tuneflow submission "Attraction" will continue to work on this tomorrow and maybe have a link up and running for the demo as it stands...

Just realised that I've submitted to this week's SongFight! with the wrong title (again!!) oh well I guess I'll just have to wait and see if the admin guys show me a bit of leniency (even though I'm sure JB doesn't like me very much, especially as I keep messing up my submissions)

Got the first of the Marvel Civil War books through the post today - "The Road to Civil War" - it features "New Avengers: Illuminati, Amazing Spider-Man #529-531 and Fantastic Four #536-537" it's a damn good read and I should be recieving "New Avengers/Civil War" next week.
Anybody out there been following Civil War? let me know what you think, was the ending a cop out or do you think there are more surprises in store during 'The Initiative'.