With an album tracklisting that's fast becoming a "some" based tongue twister - first, 'Someone Something Sunshine' and now 'Sometimes', not to mention another album contender 'Something To Sing', this album is assured to have more "somes" than a mathematician's convention! "Sometimes" is hot off the mixing desk. I came up with the germ of [...]
Unlike most electronic musicians, I tend to take a "rock" approach to writing songs, in that they'll have a verse, bridge, chorus and middle 8, each with their own chord progression, vocal melody and lyrics. Conversely, a lot of dance music tends to work on simple chord progressions, or no chord progression, as chord changes [...]
I saw Howard Jones last night at the Factory Theatre in Sydney. It was a unique gig in that he performed the complete Dream Into Action album, had a 30 minute intermission and then performed the complete Human's Lib album. Rather than doing versions of these songs, he wanted to recreate the sound of the [...]
Every time I write what I think is a good song, I fear it's the last good song I'll ever write. But then, like magic, out of nowhere comes the germ of a new song. You can't predict it or fit it into a schedule for writing songs - it just happens. What I've found [...]
The video for 'Get What You Deserve' was shot on a DC-3 plane wreck in Sólheimasandur, south Iceland near the town of Vik. The plane, belonging to the United States Navy, ran out of fuel and crashed landed here on November 24, 1973. This post includes the clip, the story behind the video, production details [...]
If I've seemed a little quiet of late, it's because I have been busy writing new music and also working on another video for the Monumental album. Whilst Monumental continues to find new fans online and through radio play, I am aware that you guys are really familiar with the album and are probably keen [...]
This week I saw Duran Duran perform at Sydney Entertainment Centre, which is the fifth time I've seen them perform. It was a great gig, an interesting setlist and they were all very chatty recalling tales of Sydney from the early 80s. Of course, Duran Duran recorded their third album Seven and the Ragged Tiger [...]
Monumental has been reviewed by a number of blogs in November/December including: Electronic Rumors, Bop 2 Pop, Hits In The Car and Read Junk. Long running, New York based Music & Entertainment site - Read Junk, described the album as "guilty pleasure Synth Pop", summing up the review with "Bottom Line: If this music was [...]
The Space March Art Exhibition opened on Saturday, the 3rd of September and runs till Friday, the 16th of September 2011 at blank_space Gallery in Surry Hills, Sydney. I have been manning the gallery which has been an interesting experience. Many people are shocked to find out I have created both the art and the [...]
Space March has teamed-up with multi-platinum producer/engineer Mark Saunders to mix seven tracks for the Monumental album to be released in September 2011. Mark has elevated these seven tracks to a whole new level by providing additional production as well as mixing. Mark Saunders is an English record producer based in New York who has [...]
