James Thornett The views and opinions expressed here are my own and not those of the BBC, my employer.
Posts Tagged ‘music’
Another Fine Day by Satchel Blue is released
It’s there! After a long, drawn out release process, including the competition to find our cover artwork, Another Fine Day by Satchel Blue has finally been released on iTunes. If anyone wants to organise a Rage Against The Machine style charge to the top of the charts then just let me know.
Provide the next Satchel Blue album cover
[update] See the winner here. How would you like to provide the design or photograph for the next Satchel Blue album cover? Our fifth album, Another Fine Day, is due for release in February and we’d like your ideas for the front cover. There’s no prize as such, but if you’ve got the perfect cover [...]
Cake Orchestra
Ever doubted the power of the cake? Here is, to quote, “A prototype of a musical interface, driven by cakes.” http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=5165508&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1 cake orchestra (test) from mook studios on Vimeo.
My 2008
The last 12 months may not have been the best year ever, but it certainly was not the worst either. I managed to walk the Great Glen Way from coast to coast in the Scottish Highlands, re-vamped the garden (before -> after), finally printed some photos onto canvas frames for the lounge, and raised £405 [...]
Guitar for sale
I own four guitars. I want to buy another one. This seems slightly extravagant so I’ve decided to sell my largely un-played classical guitar to raise funds for the new purchase. Details on eBay of course, but if you can’t be bothered to click then here they are: RRP: £185 Details below from the UK [...]
Through to the semi-final!
Last night we (Satchel Blue) qualified as one of the bands to go through to the next round of Surface Unsigned 2008. Thanks to everyone who turned up on the night and to everyone who voted for us by text. We do have an audio copy of our performance taken from the sound desk so [...]
Surface Unsigned – Round 2
Tomorrow night we (Satchel Blue) are playing in Round 2 of the Surface Unsigned competition for 2008 – although noticing that my favourite band in our Round 1 heat, Olly Dabblers, haven’t made it past Round 2 then I’m not holding out much hope. If you fancy supporting us, or just coming along to see [...]
Satchel Blue through to Round 2
So we made it through to Round 2 of Surface Unsigned 2008, somewhat helped by the fact that only 4 bands out of 7 actually made it on stage and the top 4 bands from each heat qualify for round 2. Congratulations to Subjects of the City, Olly Dabblers, and The Kinells who also managed [...]
Satchel Blue to play Surface Unsigned 2008
This coming Saturday, Satchel Blue will be playing in Round One of Surface Unsigned Festival 2008. The best way of demonstrating your support, to us and the 6 other bands playing in our heat, is obviously to come down to The Rainbow in Digbeth on Saturday night for 7pm. Alternatively you can help the Satchel [...]
Going digital
I’ve finally taken the first step in moving from analogue to digital music production and my faithful old Tascam 424 MkII 4-track recorder is on eBay and looking for a new home.
Band Photos
Blimey, it’s been a while and there’s plenty been happening. However, more of that very soon. In the meantime, check out The 20 Worst Band Photos from Spinner.com. My particular favourite is the Freedom Fighters at number 19 (left). “First we form a band, then we get a dented van … then we’ll get the [...]
‘Satchel Blue’ mentions via Technorati
How search results can be deceiving! English posts that contain Satchel Blue per day for the last 90 days.Get your own chart!
LastGraph
Andy pointed LastGraph out to me several weeks ago but that unfortunately coincided with the service being off-air for a while as demand outstripped capability. I’m glad to say that the site is now up and running again and so I have finally been able to visualise my listening habits of the last 12 months [...]
Satchel Blue on Facebook
In this age of social-networking, virtual community, and all power to the long tail, etc etc etc then it would be simply wrong for Satchel Blue not to have a presence on Facebook. So, now we do, the Fans of Satchel Blue Facebook group. Come along and join.
Satchel Blue release ‘February’
Our latest album, titled February, has now been officially released. It’s the fourth album released under the Satchel Blue name, although the first to really feature the complete band. It’s also the first to be released with AWAL. View Satchel Blue – February on iTunes. A very limited number of CD’s will be available very [...]
Moseley Folk Festival 2007
The second annual Moseley Folk Festival took place in Moseley Park this weekend. Lots of fun was had by all and the it remained dry until 7.30pm on Sunday evening which isn’t bad going considering the summer we’ve had. I found it particularly noteworthy for a number of, quite different, reasons. It was the first [...]
Concert on a stick
Marketing genius, a guaranteed money-earner, and a damn fine souvenir as well. Anyone who watched Barenaked Ladies‘ play live at Birmingham Academy last night was able to leave the gig with an mp3 copy of the entire set, including Boothby Graffoe‘s superb support slot. For a mere £20 I now have a delightfully branded 256Mb [...]
Cover art and personal radio
Generally speaking I’m not a picky/fussy type, nor am I a perfectionist by any stretch of the imagination. So why is it that, not only do I insist on going to great lengths to ensure all my music on iTunes has suitable cover artwork, but I religiously use only the exact artwork that is used [...]
Satchel Blue on iTunes
Andy‘s already beaten me to the big announcement, but for those that don’t already know… Birmingham based band Satchel Blue (yes, that’s us!) now have a track available to download via iTunes, and theoretically other music download stores, for 79p. Download here. This technically means that if enough of you purchased this track we could [...]
So I went to Wales…
… for a week and did some sightseeing (most impressively, Harlech Castle and Criccieth Castle), play a round of golf at Pen Y Berth (well, 9 holes anyway), walked up the 59th and the 40-somethingth highest peaks in Snowdonia (according to a book in the house we were staying in at Croesor), spent far too [...]
Kylie in Manchester
Kylie was fantastic and so were the colourfully and creatively dressed members of the audience – but what a shame that there were too many men and women in yellow jackets stalking around and stopping anyone from taking photos. The venue website was even at pains to point out that even photos taken with mobile [...]
Satchel Blue start recording
At long last we (‘we’ being the band, Satchel Blue) have started recording our next album with the first session last weekend. Despite a long and varied back catalogue of material ranging from the first release in 1999, this will in fact be the first full album release with the full band line-up – let’s [...]
Ye Olde Record Shop
There I was (or rather, here I am) vacantly gazing around this enormous wealth of information called the web and trying to work out if there is anything of particular interest or importance going on around me that I need to pay attention to when, oh, shock horror, I read a post on recently launched [...]
