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When we last spoke, I had just finished a weekend of three, four gigs, and we went straight from that into a week that was really busy with bookings and enquiries coming in, and the diary felt like …
What I learned from a small success on YouTube (Update 14 – February 2022
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I’m a bass player and I’m a middle child, so I’ve learned to enjoy attention in small doses.
I’m a few months into my weekly YouTube videos now, and generally speaking the doses have been pretty small and that’s …
The Joker and the Queen (Ed Sheeran/Taylor Swift) – The next big wedding song? (Update 13, Feb 2022)
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I’ve just been working on a couple of transcriptions for a couple of weddings that we’ve got coming up. When people request songs and we don’t already know them, I usually write them out in notes, so that when …
Zoom Q8/Q8n4k – 3 tips and tricks
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This little thing is the Zoom Q8. It’s a camcorder, sort of, but with a bit of a twist. More about that later. It came out in 2015, and I’ve had this one for several years, but recently, I …
Trio Introduction sneak peek! (Update 11, February 2022)
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I’ve been recording my introduction video for the trio today, so I’ll give you a bit of a sneak peak at it after this. It’s not quite ready to go up on the website yet, mostly because it refers …
What should a band website look like in 2022 (Update 10 – January 2022)
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Welcome back to this little slice of Wadawurrung land, and another update video.
This week I finally forced myself to get my website redesign properly underway. I had done some preparatory work on it back before Christmas, but I’d …
Should freelance musos be naming their price (Update 9 – January 2022)
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Look, it’s not my intention to be Jerry Maguire here.
This moment will be the moment of something real and fun and inspiring in this God forsaken business, and we will do it together.
But from time to time …
What’s next for The Mood Merchants?
I bought in the New Year along with Lightning Jazz at the Carnegie RSL, and now I’m in the process getting Alvin, who’s the 1976 Chesney Kampa, ready to go away down to East Gippsland for a few days with …
2021 – How dodgy was it? (Update 7, December 2021)
We’re in that lull between Christmas and New Year. Cricket’s on. I’m metabolising a heroic amount of calories and I thought it might be time to look back on 2021.
The music today comes from the Quintet playing a wedding …
Merry Covid-brain Christmas!
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Anyone else find themselves doing weird staff since the reopening has happened? I guess the one good thing about Covid is that you can blame it whenever anything goes wrong, but I’m pretty sure I’m not the only one …