Chefs Speciality

We went to a vietnamese place last night, check out the ingredients of no. 49..... Three chefs thumbs up!

new gigbag

I got a new gig-bag for my electric viola, its just like my other one but on grey, they are great bags, soft cases but pretty rugged, nice and light, waterproof, plenty of space for all your bits and pieces too so great for cycling to gigs with.

one word: WOW

Check it out, its a kegerator/arcade unit, complete with in dash tap and glass holder, projector with a 120 inch screen and loads of racingcar games preloaded. WOW!

Irish session

A quick clip of a trad session I played at a few weeks ago, mighty craic!

Interesting signs

We went for a walk last night with the hounds and came across this, i guess its where asian folk go to argue

And this wholesale store owned by Mr.T.

Fionn - Hypnohound!

Viola loop 3

Here is another loop, again the bass doesnt really come through on the cameraphone, and a purely audio recording doesnt lend itself to the live producing element of looping. Ah well, its an excuse to go out and buy another gadget ;)

viola loop 2

Here is a loop of the russian folk song Dark Eyes

Viola loop 1

This is my first loop arrangement, its taken on a cameraphone so the sound quality is not so good, the bass doesnt really come accross well and I was so busy thinking about what pedal controls what loop I totally stuffed up the ending but you get the general idea.

5 shooter....

Check out what arrived in the post. Its a Yamaha EV 205, 5 string violin/viola. Strings are E A D G C.

Check out the tuning pegs, no need for finetuners

Count'em, 5 strings. It takes a bit of getting used to, as the strings are bunched slightly closer than usual, you sometimes get some unwanted pizz release from adjacent strings. Jsut need to get some smaller fingers.

The bridge is great, each string has its own pickup, so even with the preamp (onboard) turned off, they are so sensitive it works almost as good, great for if a battery dies during a gig. Unfortunately I only had about 20 mins to play with it yesterday, it works perfectly with the loopstation and it sounds AWESOME through the octave pedal, in fact I might even get some bass gigs out of this!

Ill record something on it tonight and post a video tomorrow, watch this space!

Yanchep

We went off to Yanchep on saturday to Jon Edwards stag, highlights of which being beers at sunset on the beach, a giant floor piano and the bbq fry-up to beat all bbq fry-ups!

classic comedy

Derrick and Ben came over last night for tunes and a few beers, here is the cumulation of our musical creativity, a malteaser man. Classic.

more beer and camera tomfoolery

We tried to do another beer shot the other night, didnt work out as well though, the 10 pints of guinness might have had something to do with that.......

Look what I found

Look what I found in a bottle shop around the corner from the house!

Aaaarrrryyyayayaaaarrrrr

Well, the year just peaked. Last sunday I got served beer by a pirate!

I made a letter F out of chips for Finn yesterday at lunchtime and then he made his own one

And here he is in his special chair

This is Atticus, about twice the size as he was the last time I saw him.

Back to the old tricks

I did a gig last saturday with a new band in JB's and was taking full use of the good ol' scoop perch

Dinner in Leederville

I went for dinner in Leederville last weekend to the Irish bar Fibber McGee's. Lovely pints and great food were had by all.