Frosty Jack

I was in for a couple last night, and was impressed. I like the way it hasn't changed too much, it's still the Moorings, but way better. The stage and pa look fantastic.

4 minutes 33 seconds? http://music.research.home.att.net/4min33se.htm

She's not deaf in the sense of living in complete silence. She's not even able herself to explain how she 'hears' but says she doesn't differentiate between hearing and feeling. I can't comment on your experience, but from what I know of her I can't believe she's fooled everyone. This is interesting and relevant to this thread - http://www.evelyn.co.uk/hearing.htm

Number One Rule: What happens on the road, stays on the road... As for the rest, erm.. Make an effort not to get in each others faces too much. Never discuss band politics when you're pissed. Do something other than sit in a bar or the van waiting to play a gig. Get out and about, take a football or whatever. Saves you getting too pissed in the afternoon through boredom. Remember that no matter how big you reckon you are in your hometown, when you walk into a venue somewhere else, to them you're nobody. Acting big is a sure way to get shot down. And be as professional as you can with setting up, soundchecking etc. The crowd's expectations will be higher for a touring band, so you have more to prove. Remember to eat. It's easy to spend three weeks pissed and having nothing but the odd kebab and Ginsters, but you'll soon have no energy for the shows at night. All you can eat pizza places are your friend. Collect offer vouchers before you go. Buy booze collectively to get case discounts. Start smoking rollies instead.. Driver gets the best bed/chair/floor. Get AA cover before you go. If you get stopped by the feds, swallow your pride and be nice. Never try to be funny. Have deodorant and chewing gum available at all times. You can't have too much Gaffa tape. Insert a tracking device into your drummer.

Evelyn Glennie (deaf percussionist) once explained to me how she hears music. Apparently she's just really sensitive to vibration, and 'hears' different notes in different areas of her body - low frequencies towards her feet, and higher frequencies up toward her head. She's so sensitive to it she can tune drums waaay better than I ever could...

You really don't come across well on these boards though do you? Assuming you're not actually as much of an arse as you sometimes sound. Although I did notice that our Jonny has managed to post this tune on practically every forum except the Feedback Forum, which is where it should be...

Cool, that's what we want. So you're one of the half dozen or so that have seen us then...Should be gigging again soon though.

If he, or anyone, perceives it as music, then it is music. In his head. Outside of his head, it is a sound. Sound is not music until it reaches your brain. And sound, vibration and silence are the same thing. Sound is vibration of molecules, usually air. Silence is an absence of vibration. An object vibrates which makes the air molecules between it and your ear vibrate, which make your eardrum vibrate, which sends a signal to your brain, which interprets this signal and decides whether it's music or not. All sound is potential music. Music is a signal from your eardrum that your brain likes. A guitar doesn't make music, your brain does. A guitar makes vibrations. A teacup, a bird, a drop of tiger sweat landing on a dead leaf, or anything else don't make music, your brain does. I once saw a guy outside a club in Brixton dancing like a nutter having the time of his life. The music he was dancing to was his own keys jangling in his hand as he danced.

Rrrrrico....! Lee Richardson, I saw him recording his bits. There's a few stories about him, that's for sure...

NO! Definitely not. Some members of Suvara were in the Lorelei, but they are very different bands. Different songwriters, different style. Please don't make that connection, we never have and really don't want to. Anyway, we're changing the name soon, and keeping Suvara as an acoustic only offshoot. Not saying what the new name will be though, so hopefully we can be judged on our own merits. That's very important.

Don't tell the record label, but have a listen here Agreed about OGU, I still listen to Schiffer a lot. And the Loveless were literally awesome, blew everyone away every time. There was a lot of amazing stuff going on then.

He's great, but you have to give credit to Dylan Moran too. He does write it... I too am counting down to the 11th.

Not bad, but the line about eggs doesn't seem to fit somehow... What sound are you looking for,would it be like your listening list?

screaming into the pickups is a good start...

I'm sure there is, but personally I was never really much of a folkie so wouldn't really know. I'm sure Bodhisattvostsit or others would probably know more about it than me. I'm hearing good things about Pottedheid these days though...

Glad you asked. Still available from the record company I believe- http://www.lochshore.com/run/artists?84 Boost. Another 6p in me skyrocket...

The correct term is of course poofbat... Unfortunately as the band now have barely a liver left between them a return is not on the cards. Funnily enough I was speaking to Simon LemonTree about the very same thing nobbut two nights ago, and he was being very persuasive indeed. But no. None of ver kids nowadays would give a monkeys anyways. It's all floppy fringes and angst these days isn't it?

Hmm, I wouldn't bet on it actually.

Satan will be skating to work that day, I'm afraid...

That should polish up nicely, aye. Good riff. And it has passed the 'still in my head 5 mins later' test... carry on.

such a flowerchild, aren't you? I'm off to dig out my copy of "Teacup Smash Party Megamix Vol II"...

Haha! Yes! I used to like going to Safeway before they had aisles and they just piled all the food in the middle of the floor. It was a bit tricky finding the fresh fruit before it got buried under the frozen prepared meals, but at least I went to more gigs then, instead of just wandering up and down the dairy aisle... o_O

*finger/nose pointy thing*

Local legend Spider McKenzie used to teach many moons ago, not sure if he still does. He is one of the best players in the country though. You could try asking in Bruce Millers, they have contact lists of teachers, they'll probably know of him. I'm pretty sure they've got some good books on harmonica playing anyhoo. sook n blaw, sook n blaw...

But you're trying to define music as a concrete object, when it's not, it's an attribute that we choose to give to a sound. Sounds don't make music, your brain makes music from sounds. If I consider any particular sound to be music, then by definition it becomes music. Maybe it is only music to me, but that still holds. Just as to me, Bon Accord baths are freezing cold, but to a penguin they're not. Attributes like that can only be defined in terms of the perceptor. We're veering rather close to the old 'tree falling in the forest with no-one around' territory here.