Quick Update

Spent Saturday afternoon recording the first segment of my rock opera 'Attack Of The Chevron Action Flasher'. It came out pretty good, but I think that I'll do another take to give it a bit more sparkle. This is just the demo phase (though a later one), and I'm not planning to release this recording. It will provide the 'draft' version for a more complete recording later in a proper studio. That said, its sounding pretty good in terms of the clarity of what I'm cutting, and I'd like it to be good enough to share it with others if the wind changes.

New ideas keep on dropping into my head for arrangements and codas for this, so maybe there will be two versions. I may cut a big song out of it, and so the structure is still being monkeyed around with. There are some vignettes that I'd like to fit into it, but I think that they would shift the whole opera away from pop. For me, pop should always be focussed. Very simple in essence (with the scope to be very complex in execution).

An MP3 of 'Smuggler Sid' is coming very soon (just got to get the login details for my FTP and upload it!)

Am working a lot in the day at the moment, tonight I am showing some people around my house. Potential housemates no-less, but I won't make a decision for a week or so.

Oh, and merry Christmas.

Tom.