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This may be my last post on the current version of my blog and site, as the new one's not far off completion. Some of my friends have been making up, even giving away, albums of the music they've liked...
December 14, 2011: Old site, new site
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I haven't put anything on my website recently because I'm working on a new one. Hope you will still visit me! It'll be ready for the New Year.
October 22, 2011: Secret CDs 48 *OOTB special* at Voodoo Rooms Wed 2nd November
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This is part of the celebration of 100 years of Out of the Bedroom (OK, 10 years) and we’ll be up there with some of our favourites from OOTB - 7.45: Freeloading Frank 8.30: Jill Hepburn 9.15: Gordon Ballboy 10.00:...
September 11, 2011: Autumn Almanyack
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Into September already. A quick roundup of things I've been doing: The Invisible Helpers is about a year old now, and is beginning to know what it is. When the band started we worked on a core of songs from...
July 17, 2011: How to write songs (as told by Paul Simon)
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This little statement is in the sleevenotes of So Beautiful or So What and, as I get engaged with writing again, it rings as true as any description I've ever heard of the creative process: How do the fingers of...
June 29, 2011: Diary of an album ep 10
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I've been very quiet on this subject, mainly due to working hours that drained my energy for music. I have done some work on the songs, but without much joy in the listening, and still being exasperated by my software....
May 29, 2011: Diary of software rage ep 4
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To do list of music tasks complete, I had an evening free to work on it. My expert son had shown me how to use FL Studio with Rewire so I could easily (!) channel individual FL instruments to individual...
May 21, 2011: The Invisible Helpers step out again
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I'm pleased to be playing a charity gig on Friday night in aid of Oxfam, Epilepsy Scotland and the Drake Project. Drake is a great organisation which enables people with all sorts of disabilities to play and compose music by...
June 9, 2010: Captain Quirk and friends at the Captain's Bar
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Saturday 8:30 the Captain's Bar, South College St Norman Lamont Jim Whyte Fiona J Thom Sam Barber The Invisible Helpers Free!
January 19, 2010: Crosby and Nash
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I’ve been listening to one of my favourite singing voices, that of David Crosby. Here are a couple of lovely examples from a show with Graham Nash on UK TV in 1970.
