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...

All Australian Music?

I have much to blog about the IMC and my trip to the USA, but I'm working through it all slowly. Instead, I thought I'd note that I found the Australian Music Office website and have signed up for the...

The third leg is flapping

Thought I'd better note this: I've been e-mailed off-list to ask for advice/help twice in the past week. Both requests come off the back of e-mails I've sent to the MusicThoughts list, which is populated by musos of all kinds...

Amie Street fluke?

I was playing with the Amie Street site and comparing notes with Phil. I had arranged to get some extra money and free RECs by inviting myself to join up - it works, BTW. I now have $4 and 5...

Press in Carolina?

Just a short note. My main focus is still on rehearsing a show for the USA trip and writing the theory paper for Phil, but, coincidentally, a post on the [MusicThoughts] list asked about people who have learned an instrument...

The little things ...

Thought I'd better note a couple of the things that I have done with the CD that may or may not make any difference ... I've given a couple of copies to people I've met who know someone who might...

Looking for gigs

OK, need to get out there acoustically and play a bit. To this end I have tried to contact two bars that I know use live acoustic acts: Ric's, which I went to the other night and was given an...

Little catching up to do ...

Ok, so, here's where we're at: Recording: The album is made, being reproduced at home and pre-marketing has begun. I currently have 70 saleable copies sitting on my kitchen table and could have more except that the supplier of the...

Promotion steps and feedback

Last Tuesday I gave my students 64 copies (one each) of a "bootleg" CD of my album. I told them they could do whatever they wanted with it within the terms of the Creative Commons licence and asked them 1)...

Songwriting Contests

For some time now I have been wondering about the virtue of entering/winning songwriting contests. There are plenty to choose from all over the world ... but in previous years I have felt that, even if I won something, I...

Returning to the fold

OK, I haven't blogged for a while, mainly out of frustration. However, I have made some progress and changed tack slightly, and it needs to be written up. Firstly, the damn Premiers' Smart State Application is in and, although I...

Starting work today

Teaching at UQ this afternoon. This is the job I didn't want - got talked into teaching it - but we could certainly use the money. Yesterday was spent on odd jobs like preparing for today's teaching and setting up...

Interesting developments

Site stats for July show something great: podcasting works! At the suggestion of my host, I set up a little podcast of the theme song "I long for the day", and posted it to Podcast.net. The xml document has since...

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...

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...

Stats update

OK, analysing my site stats 24 hours later, it would appear that there was a definite spike from yesterday's radio exposure. However, it wasn't much. As at this morning there have been 8 search request involving the phrase "state of...

Fixing the basics

Having gotten through the methodologies assignment and then Easter, I thought I'd spend today cleaning up a few things and preparing for the next stage. That means adding a "robots, noindex" meta tag to this blog, which will help prevent...