did i just make the seven day diary deadline? i think i'm a bit over, but it's okay. tonight's entry will be short coz i'm obsessed with playing a new song i wrote about three hours ago. i notice i always seem to blog when i have written a song. maybe coz i have no one to share it with at such a late hour and i get a bit excited. i'm really sleepy, but i can't put the guitar to bed, or myself. it's a really simple song (again) and i like the chorus. i was playing around with words and have written some lyrics to it. i'll think of some more tomorrow evening i think, or when i'm out walking during the day i'll get some ideas.
'without you' from the debut album comes out as a download-only single on i-tunes and other sites in a couple of weeks so please look out for it. shameless, repetitive promotion but needs must.
i'll go to bed now and play this song over in my head. i'm finally getting a harmonica brace from my friend ian and i'm going to have mastered that instument by the end of march i hope. i'll practise each and every day till i get decent at it. i can't wait to get into the recording studio again at the end of the month to do some more tracks. a great musician called stuart kidd will be coming in to play drums on some songs so it'll be fun.
to bed i go.
i think i might have erased the entire messageboard:(
i tried to change a simple thing which was adding a link (
www.myspace.com/allykerr) to the 'listen' page of my site but somehow along the way the messageboard has reverted to when it was just created, back in 2004. hopefully web guru chris will be able to fix it, though i have a sinking feeling that every message ever posted might be lost. that would be a real shame.
if you do visit that part of the site ever then please check back over the next couple of days.
oh, and the myspace link has got four full album tracks that you can listen to. i'm really not sure i like myspace at all and i've not really done anything with it since it was created. i'm not convinced about it but i wanted to have full tracks for people to listen to and they host the files so it's fine. so, i'm undecided about myspace. but, if you have a few minutes and you haven't heard these songs from the album already then please have a wee look/listen.
ah, me and technology. i should leave well alone sometimes :(
good night.
i've been thinking a lot about the download single out on the 27th of february on i-tunes via neon tetra records. i think a video might be made for this, if i can get it together with my friend. we'll see. it might not happen to be honest, but then it might. i was rehearsing tonight with the guys who will be playing on the next batch of recordings (alan, chris and new recruit stuart) and i'm really excited about how it's sounding and can't wait till we're in the studio. i've narrowed the tracklisting down to about 15 songs and maybe the album will have 12 tracks or so on it. it's always so confusing to know what songs are worth recording but i guess instinct is the way to judge. but then i reckon i've missed a couple of songs that could have been on the first album, so maybe i'm a bad judge.
foxes reguarly gather at the bins in the back garden of the flats i live at. they ripped open one of the neighbours' garbage sacks and revealed to everyone in the block their eating/lifestyle habits. no one has gone out to pick up this mess so i guess i'll do it. i remember at uni reading about a state of affairs called 'the tragedy of the commons' which was all about how if it was everyone's problem then it was no one's problem. like global warming or the depletion of the ozone layer. so i feel like this bin mess is no one's problem but i wanna go out and put on a pair of marigolds and tidy up. it's a mess and an eyesore. i'm glad those pesky foxes didn't rip into my black sack or my eating/living habits would have been exposed to all the others in the block. i'm not saying i've got anything to hide but as far as i'm concerned once it's in the back bin sack it's confidential. those foxes have no respect!
i'll go now and have a beer and maybe play some guitar.
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