Hughie's PhD

2008 Music goals

The industry literature relating not only to music, but to all successful enterprises, recommends the establishment of clear, attainable goals. As such, I have set these goals for The Genre Benders for 2008: 1) Want to play at least 12...

Bun' Ber E on Amazon

Just noticed that our two CDs are available on Amazon.com, but for sale for $38.99 via a company called MadMusicMarket or something, listed as new but we have no relationship with them. Now, they might be an agent of the...

Practice and perfection.

Amazing how after a month of not playing Bunnies tunes I can get rusty on them. Yesterday I played our monthly gig at Dicey Reilly's and was struggling to remember some of the words and chords. I guess the focus...

Growing frustration

Yesterday was more or less wasted riging people, missing them, waiting for calls back, arguing with thecomputer about why it had or had not sent an e-mail ... And then there was a leak in a pipe in the roof,...

Nothin' like a bit of hope

Had a productive day yesterday and figured out that I've only got one-and-a-bit tracks to go on piano parts - first draft. Of course, then I have to go back and listen and get them perfect ... This is a...

Back to it

OK, back to the studio today. Late yesterday I had a good chat with David Kay in Creative Industries in the Department of State Development - they had completely the wrong idea about the project. They thought it involved drafting...

A first time for everything

Well, today's the first day I've gotten up and not felt like working on the music. That could be because I've just spent two days talking to various peple about funding, legal implications, organisation of stuff ... or it could...

Starting to wory now

Looking ahead, I'm starting to wonder whether I have time to do everything I have to get done. It's just not happenning as quickly as I would have liked. Having to write that second document and being sick didn't help,...

Paring down

Working on the Bunnies' Third CD, the setlist now looks like this (in no particular order): Roaring Jelly set - all instrumental Pat Horgan Set - instrumental (disco) Devil Among the Tailors set- instrumental (techno) Green Cockade (Swing set) -...

Steady, steady

Making slow progress recording things. Yesterday was a write-off as I spent most of it being X-rayed and/or waiting for x-rays. Turns out my shoulder is healing slowly because the humerus is broken. There's not much I can do about...

Something to do

Today will be to broken up tospend productive time in the studio. I have already seen my Physiotherapist and have an appointment with a GP at 11.30 - to get a referral to see an orthopedic surgeon about my shoulder....

Leaps forward

Got all but one of the Bunnies' guitars done now - at least the first draft. Had a frustrating day with lots of nothing quite working but at least the guitars are mostly down. Also got the invoice from UQ...

Productivity

Got lots of Bunnies' guitar parts down yesterday - but they were the easy ones. Got a few more to do today that will be harder. With a bit of luck I'll get around to doing more of the vocal...

Great investment ...

Spent the end of last week recording away. Just getting the parts down as cleanly as possible. Mostly on the Bunnies' album. Progress is steady but I'll have to speed it up to meet deadlines. I have chosen October 1...

Contrasting fortunes

Yestrday went brilliantly. Everything I tried worked (eventually) and I made great progress with Bunnies' Roaring Jelly set and With Dancing with the Stones. Also met a guy who heard me on Triple M, got more money from CDBaby Digital...

Deficient software

Had a frustrating day yesterday. Managed to learn a lot about the need to keep an eye on software upgrades and updates. Also spent a lot of time reading the Pro Tools manual thoroughly, which gave me some nifty tips...

Bunnies 3 so far

The first recordings I have to produce for this project are Bun' Ber E's third CD: Celtic Jazz. These were arranged and rehearsed through 2005 and were recorded live at Dicey Reilly's in October. These are mostly traditional Irish and...