Great news,
Curlew have a 10 hour recording session tomorrow thanks to the amazing David Browne. This should be the start of our first album as a band.
We also have a gig this week at the Waiting Room with Heart Flew.
Im going to bed, I will update very soon.
It proves hard to get albums reviewed, or maybe its just my album, even if you tell the reviewer you don’t mind them trashing it.
If anybody would like to review it, download a free copy or email me and I’ll send you one.
Today marks a first for adding a date to my event calendar and also using my mailing list.
Music promotion is not really why I got into music, but people coming to shows is very important for the following reasons.
Therefore Alcohol Sales = Success.
Therefore come to my gigs and drink a lot. I personally don’t really drink much and don’t really condone the consumption of copious amounts of alcohol, unless of course it makes me look good.
So long story short the details are:
Curlew play at the Zoo (funny yeah, animals at the Zoo, ha ha ha) Dad Joke, not actually a joke my Dad made but you get it.
Wednesday April 18
Costs $6 presale or $8 on the door. (I have some tickets, but really the cost of contacting me then arrange payment is probably worth just coming on the night and surprising me . Alternatively you could surprise me and buy a ticket and not come)
The address is 711 Ann Street, Fortitude Valley and we play at 8 on the dot. (We will play our best song first so if you miss it, well yeah)
Come and watch Callum and I express ourselves. Or maybe its Callum and I expressing me. I’m not sure how he views it.
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Proof reading is for pussies
So…. to go on about my partner being in Norway. We were on Skype and I was telling her that she buy my cd for $80. Sales are slow and she doesn’t own one. This is because she doesn’t listen to my music, as she feels it would be best to be distant from it and only watch me live.
While my pitch was going on she took this screen shot.
Haven’t posted for awhile, sorry, busy living life. I find it hard to be bothered writing a blog to share my life with you (probably no one) as I have a real flesh and blood person to share my life with.
This person has gone to Norway for a month and to celebrate her and her return I will be making a cheesy album of love songs in her memory.
I have already written 4 of the 5 songs and am hoping to have it recorded and released within the next 2 weeks.
See I don’t only write depressing music. (Just mostly)
Are you alright Mark?
P.S: You may or may not be able to purchase said music from bandcamp for $80.
P.S: If anybody would like to proof read my blogs, feel free to send me corrections, and I may or may not care.
My work place is a bit strange, my boss is extremely understanding and I work most days with only women who treat me either as their child or little brother. Basically I get teased all day. But I like it.
A few weeks ago the ladies at work were talking about Psychics and thought it would be a good idea to get a Psychic to come in and give us all readings. I agreed.
For those that know me I am extremely curious and quite a large skeptic and did a little bit of research before the session, mainly into cold reading.
So we sit down and she explains to me how it all works.
The information comes from universal consciousness that is somehow all stored in a central location (maybe in the heavens). She has the ability to access or channel this information from three different spiritual guides. She says its a bit like downloading. Today’s guide is Merlin. How original. Only her name for him of course.
So she starts…… lets just call her Jill for the purposes of this post.
Jill: (Meditates and makes contact with the guide)
Mark: (As per Jill’s instructions Mark becomes a white clear light as all of his Chakras light up, Mark becomes grounded by said light)
She proceeded to tell me the following:
In the end I think that she is good at what she does but I don’t believe she has Psychic abilities. She got some interesting hits, but after listening back, I think I helped her along way too much. Was an interesting experience and I was happy I tried it.
Later that night, my friend Amorina decided that she no longer wanted to sing on my next album. Which I have just finished writing by the way. So if anybody knows a good female singer let me know.
I have now left the repository of hangers on, that is facebook. I understand that this doesn’t seem like a big step and really its not, but it feels like one. It must be hard for people to stop playing world of warcraft, especially after it cost them their marriage.
Today, I have Knee Chin practice and the radio show minus Liza.
Taken by Callum at my last “I am not a Nihilist” show at Dowse Bar in Paddington. Callum and Nick (aka Fine Goods) are also working a video of one of my new songs from the show. Visit Callum’s blog.
As of this Sunday, I will be deleting my facebook accounts.
There are many reasons but mainly I feel that I waste a lot of time flicking through nothing on facebook. Every time writing gets hard it seems that facebook provides the perfect mind numbing distraction.
Some friends have said just have some self control. But how can they talk they smoke. I have been telling myself for awhile that I need it to promote my music, but the truth is that most people don’t take notice on facebook. They have too many friends, too much information and most don’t even decline event invites, and those that accept, let alone choose to respond at all, never usually turn up.
On a personal note, facebook really does nothing for me socially, other than making me a little more distant and distracted when spending time with the people that are important to me.
Hopefully now with one less distraction, I will find more time to blog. I have also decided to keep my twitter account and might try my hand at some twitter poetry.
On a more serious note, I have been keeping up the fishing and today I caught a crab. No pots needed, just reeled him in, too bad he was undersize.
I have also added a mailing list so please sign up.
So….. It has been a long time between posts. I will give you the short version.
I really didn’t need to use dot points. But many wonderful personal things have happened between those things. All mixed with my general fixation on bullshit.
Not really into Christmas… so thats all I’m going to say about that, but I am off work for two weeks, hoping to finish the songs for my next album and try to relax.
Speaking of relaxing, I have been fishing 3 times in the last 3 days. Never really catch much.
Trip 1: Large Toad/Puffer Fish – Nick tells me that this is not a fish and is therefore counted as negative 1 point.
Trip 2: Poolie catches a large rock. As seen below.
Trip 3: Caught a tiny Bream and two toad fish in the cast net. Got bored and decided to feed the fish with the chicken breast we were using as bait. Just a side note on that, the use of chicken as bait was my Dad’s idea. He says that its cheaper and better for bait than prawns, I am yet to be convinced. Its just strange trying to ‘catch dinner’ with what would have been a fine dinner in the first place.
The interesting thing that I did find out about chicken breast however is that it is much better for skimming than rocks.
