The Next CD

It's been quite a year, we've added Pat on the bass and he's learned the old album, a bunch of covers and re-learned a few from Tony's CD. So far we've played live 5 times - a new record and during the year 8 songs have been written and rehearsed. At our last gig we played 6 of them and the last rehearsal firmed up the remaining 2.

Looking forward to rehearsal this Sunday, Tony and I did a run through tonight on the intro to song 8 (a mighty prog inspired epic) and we can't wait to take this bunch of songs into the studio.

Cheers,
Ian

Song Contest

A local CD pressing company Replicat has been running a song contest with recording related prizes for the last few years - this is our first attempt.

We've taken New Place from our CD and used a live performance from Gertrude's Brown Couch as the submission. Attempts to synch the CD audio to the live video we're 100% successful, so we went with the less pristine audio version from the live show, it's a nice performance though and initial comments from other musicians suggest the song is likely to be well received.

I had a sobering experience at work this week when 7 out to 7 people I asked to vote (via Facebook) said they didn't use it!

Here's the link

http://www.catapultsongcontest.com.au/artists/mu-theory/new-place.html

You need to log into Facebook, vote and share.

Wish us luck, the 2nd CD is getting closer and it would be great to win a prize like "free replication".

Anyway, having fun.

Ian

Photo from The Fox

Trying out the new Panorama mode on the iPhone. I don't recall my mate Bruce (left) having 3 eyeballs before:)

The Fox Hotel

We were all pretty happy with the recent gig at The Fox Hotel in Collingwood on Sunday. It's a great little pub with really cool atmosphere. Not to mention an amazing PA - Turbosounds - think Roll Royce of Pas. Very nice sound.

Clearly none of Pat's mates like rugby - I reckon they all turned up and filled the pub. For me this was the best gig we've done yet. A good crowd in a nice pub, already full of local drinkers. Tony got them going and even had a few people waving their lighters "countdown" style.

Hoping for an invite back - we deserve it, they must have done heaps over the bar.

Here's the YouTube playlist version of the DVD we gave out FREE on the day.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1-Lvg03Pb8&list=PLZGRlNRQvw-C5foNbnBDfT67QG7hNBpVz


A great afternoon/evening.

Ian

Gertrude's Brown Couch - August 2012

I just remembered a funny thing from our last Gertrude's gig. We were all set up to go when Tony takes a wander past me (keys) to the back of the stage. Just as I was momentarily distracted, thinking he's heading my way, Stu hits the sticks together for the first song. 1, 2, 1,2,3,4 and what!!!! We're playing. I caught up, but it was kind of terrifying for a few milliseconds.

Ah, the joys and challenges of playing live - I love it! Really!

Ian