Down the Tiny Steps

Allotment #4 : 29th & 30th of May @ Govan Cross Shopping Centre : 8pm : £5

Tapehead are going to be playing 3 improv sets each night with a few special guests spread across them, including members of dBass, The One Ensemble & Moon Unit. I think we’re going to be trying to create a bit of synergy between the music & live looksees provided by visual artists Fergus Dunnet, Justin Eade & Jenny Soep.

We like to jam. We’re going to jam.

Allotment is a pretty special event run by The National Theatre of Scotland.

Here’s what they’re saying to it:

Allotment is back for the final time! This time we’re making more games, intimate experiences, live music and performances than ever before. With a total of 16 groups of artists in the shop and over 3 secret locations it’s going to be an extra hot ticket.

Dbass and Inspector Tapehead will be playing live. There will be a human powered carousel made by George Thompson and Jen Sykes, which is a bit like a roundabout if you can brave a spin after visiting the bar. You could fall in love with a stranger through a scientific Love Calculator. Paul Maguire (who made the giant floor Pong game in Allotment 2) is creating a Text Adventure for twitter style social networking. Robbie Thomson and Colin Ferguson (who created the rain and the pianos in the last Allotment) are working on a secret site in Govan with… robots!

Glasgow Podcart featured tracks by Meursault, Loch Lomond, and myself to plug the Song, By Toad showcase gig on wednesday.

Listen HERE

Halina misquotes me spectacularly, bless her.

She also did a wee interview in her pants: HERE

See you on wednesday, aye?

I recently signed up at Central Station.

Not THE central station. (I’m not a particular fan of overpriced cornish pasties and teenage goths).

Central Station, the creative social network: www.thisiscentralstation.com

I have been shortlisted for the Savalas Project and my Audio Emporium promo is one of today’s featured works.

So far, it’s proving to be about 1,000,000 times more productive than faceboob.

I had a particularly excellent day yesterday.

I spent Tuesday recording Autistic Angus and the mixing yesterday went really well. Very rewarding. SATISFACTION

Then I took a walk in the sunshine to buy some teabags, popped into my mate’s shop and had a lovely chat. CONTENTMENT

The post came with a boomkat delivery I forgot I’d even ordered and a juicy mix CD from LMK. SURPRISE & DELIGHT

Neil Meursault popped round to lay down a track before his album launch at the Captain’s Rest. EXCITEMENT

I went down to the launch where the guys played an absolute belter. I got a shout-out. Probably unwise to admit, but getting a shout-out momentarily transforms me into a giddy 15 year old girl. GIDDINESS

Today I am writing an essay. COMEDOWN

Catch Ye Versace x

synth by Roland / painting by kath / egg by free range chicken

Nice Idea. Should be fun. If you need more info, geez a shout.

David Galletly is a fantastic artist / illustartor based in Stirling.

I stumbled across his website last year and have been loving his work since.

Imagine my delight then, when I visited it for the first time this year to find one of my songs in his Top 5 ‘most listened to’ of 2009.

Not only that but, in the absense of a youtube link for it, he’s made a wee vid of his own!

Come on.

Imagine it.

Imagine my delight.

CLICK HERE TO VIEW ‘INFINITEA’ VIA HIS BLOG

Cheers David!

Glasgow PodcArt have declared that I am one of the ‘ones to watch in 2010′

(you can see the comprehensive list over at glasgowpodcart.com)

I’m not sure if this is because I am not to be trusted or because I am awesome.

I’ll pick your pockets and write a smash hit about it before you can say ‘I think I’ll have a piece of chewing gum’.

My mate Dominic is on a quest to make you smile.

I played at the Trampoline all day event through in Edinburgh on saturday and Euan, the promoter, has written some very lovely things about me in his blog: The Steinberg Principle

Cheers Euan!

Glasgow PodcArt were also there, recording their show from the venue. They will no doubt broadcast me talking pish sometime in the near future.

Big thanks to Roy Mohan Shearer for providing his talents in my set.

In other news, I really don’t remember Passenger 57 being this rubbish.