Well, hello there! 
It’s a new year, a new decade, and now that Jenky Aid is done, thar be new projects to get on to. Not least those of the mountain of actual university work I’m supposed to do this term. But as a start to the new year goes, the gig my band, HQ played last night was proper bo. We got one of Tom’s parents’ friends to do guest guitar on Johnny B Goode and Purple Haze. The man is almost definitely a blues genius. We polished of the evening of several arrangements of auld lang syne ranging from a punk rock one to a nice reggae rendition which was my personal favourite. 
But as good news goes, this next nugget is up there.
A couple of weeks before the end of term, I sorted out my living arrangements for my next year. It’s a fantastically lovely 7 bedroome house on an ol’ school cobbled road, with 6 of the awesomest people ever. Proper looking forward to it, but that’s not even the best bit...
After seeing my room for the first time I immediately decided that I would be turning my room into a bit of a home studio, so over the last few weeks I have been wondering about what exactly I need to buy. Essentially I’m planning on an Imac, a reasonably large MIDI keyboard, some adequately badass speakers and maybe a little DI box or something like that for if I want to record guitars. Well after posing the burning question of ‘What shall I get’ to the Frost* Forum community I got some fantastic advice of the dudes there which definitely helped to shape the mental image of the finished product, and then something wonderful happened.
Jem Godfrey, Keyboardist and songwriter for Frost* has recently been tweeting about how he was moving house and dismantling his old studio; and I thought seeing as how some things would be thrown away, I might ask if I can just nab them before they get to the skip so I can use them in my evil plans. And it turns out that If I can get down to london before the 4th, I can get this:
for free, and this:
for just £100! It makes me so very, very happy! This is possibly the best opportunity ever. It makes me feel like this: 
(i would like to point out that in real life that jacket is a nice manly red... but this camera apparently disagrees.)
I expect I’ll get the majority of the money towards the Imac for my birthday and will buy the monitor speakers over a great deal of saving up. But as for now, that is all the news about the Rob Rideout ProgPit. I’m still settling on the name to be honest...
Peace out, and enjoy the new decade! (Apparently we’re in the ‘Teenies’ now)
xxx
But as good news goes, this next nugget is up there.
A couple of weeks before the end of term, I sorted out my living arrangements for my next year. It’s a fantastically lovely 7 bedroome house on an ol’ school cobbled road, with 6 of the awesomest people ever. Proper looking forward to it, but that’s not even the best bit...
After seeing my room for the first time I immediately decided that I would be turning my room into a bit of a home studio, so over the last few weeks I have been wondering about what exactly I need to buy. Essentially I’m planning on an Imac, a reasonably large MIDI keyboard, some adequately badass speakers and maybe a little DI box or something like that for if I want to record guitars. Well after posing the burning question of ‘What shall I get’ to the Frost* Forum community I got some fantastic advice of the dudes there which definitely helped to shape the mental image of the finished product, and then something wonderful happened.
Jem Godfrey, Keyboardist and songwriter for Frost* has recently been tweeting about how he was moving house and dismantling his old studio; and I thought seeing as how some things would be thrown away, I might ask if I can just nab them before they get to the skip so I can use them in my evil plans. And it turns out that If I can get down to london before the 4th, I can get this: for free, and this: for just £100! It makes me so very, very happy! This is possibly the best opportunity ever. It makes me feel like this: (i would like to point out that in real life that jacket is a nice manly red... but this camera apparently disagrees.)I expect I’ll get the majority of the money towards the Imac for my birthday and will buy the monitor speakers over a great deal of saving up. But as for now, that is all the news about the Rob Rideout ProgPit. I’m still settling on the name to be honest...
Peace out, and enjoy the new decade! (Apparently we’re in the ‘Teenies’ now)
xxx
you should definatly go to get that mean desk and roland just to meet him in his home abode
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