It’s all done and dusted for now, we’ve finished our concert; and whilst I remain hopeful that we will do well, we still have a LOT of work to do! Apparently if you have a broadband connection, and you feel like staying up wierd hours (depending on your time zone) you can even ‘watch’ us playing in the contest on Friday, Saturday and in the Band of the Year Contest on Sunday ‘LIVE’ streamed over the internet…. no pressure then eh?

The link is here >> Hi there I’m a LINK!!? you’ll probably need to register or something to get started, but then you’ll be able to see what all the fuss is about!

…me? I’ve never been so nervous in my entire life. Not because of the band contest(s) but because I have FOOLISHLY agreed to give ice-skating a try for the first time in my life, whilst there, be afraid be very, VERY afraid!

But not in an Adams Family way…

So we have reached the midway marker of yet another week, I’m still at work, and will be heading up Ngiao again tonight for band practise; and maybe a bit more recording =p I heard a sneak preview of one of our pieces the other day and hardly recognised it, sounded like some other ‘A’ grade band?! It was awesome in other words, and I now can’t wait to have my own copy of the finished CD….is that vain? meh what the heck!! I don’t care!

I’m currently doing a little reading up on chroma-keying and such for my first attempt at ‘film-making-on-a-budget’ I am currently looking at getting some cheap matt panels (green) for the background, and I am looking at getting some reasonably soft lighting for them to reduce the chance of reflections and bleeding etc…add some Povray Ray-Tracing, a little imagination and about 3 months to compile the ray-tracing to broadcast quality~!! Then I think I will be ready…

Well I wanna make a bit of an impression?! Oh and in other news I have rediscovered the wonderful and sexy Imogen Heap; downloaded one of her albums and just can’t stop listening to it, to describe the style it’s a bit like Enya but far more original in my humble opinion and diverse for that matter! Anyways - I want her to have my babies!!! =p

In other news? It’s the Queens birthday on Monday which is awesome for me in NZ - coz it means I get a day off work (it’s a public holiday here), makes me question why it ain’t a public holiday in the UK, like we don’t have enough of them there already!!? Anyhoo - have a good’un and I’ll blog ya later….

Wowser…I was just browsing through 4BarsRest(dot)com when I came across my very own mug shot amongst the crowd of victorious Wellingtonians! Guess I am getting a little more famous than I thought?! Hehe… check it out?!

In other news, it feels like winter today, down to a FREEZING 4 degrees!!! Brrrrrrr…. o.O