Two Success Stories (and My Efforts)

Muse have been given honourary degrees by the University of Plymouth! Congratulations Muse, shame on you Plymouth, you publicity-fiends! I'm just jealous because they won't be at my graduation I suppose.

Kings of Leon have (apparently, I haven't verifed this for myself yet) got their respectable back catalogue of four albums into the UK top 50, with Only By The Night taking the number one spot.

Which leads me [tenuous link alert] onto some of what I've been up to. My band are going to be recording another track very soon, called Going Down, so I've been working on the drum beat for that. Nathan Followill has some great bass drum techniques going on in the new tracks, so I got my teacher to show me some similar ideas and some of my own ideas are in Going Down. I've used the floor tom in the chorus to get a (brief) double bass pedal effect.

"Repent"

I recorded a song with my band today, for the first time in a long time. It's certainly the best recording we've done, the guy we were working with really took the time to listen to what we were playing and help us make improvements and adjustments. It was an amazing feeling to hear my drumming polished up and blasted back at me through some nice high quality speakers; normally I'm playing on a cheap kit with practise pads on it to muffle the sound.

On the Value of Handwriting.

I got a note today from my physics teachers saying congratulations on my result. This little display of effort on their part really made my day, it was handwritten, not just bashed off on a computer and sent to everyone. Don't get me wrong, I value communication on the internet just as much as the next blogger, but there is something wonderful about receiving something written in a 'font' unique to that person... Maybe I'm just getting mushy! :P

Recording with The (legendary) Fifty Threes tomorrow.