As I've said previously, many of you will know me, or, at least, know of me, because of my appearances with Eddie and the Hot Rods and the Kursaal Flyers, with whom I spent a number of enjoyable years. Neither of the bands has survived in any reasonable facsimile of their best years, although there is still a passable version of the Hot Rods doing the small gig circuit, which features Barrie Masters.
Not much has changed so far, apart from the look of the site, and one or two no-longer-useful pages have disappeared. The site is still undergoing much refurbishment and many pages have yet to become fully operational but, rest assured, there will be opportuties to buy things soon. I am working to rectify any anomalous behaviour that might occur with the menus and the sales pages. Please bear with me as I get these up and running.
All video and mp3 sales were to have been by automatic download except in the case of actual physical CD or DVD purchases, where real merchandise will be provided. Disaster struck, however, when I purchased a Flash Shopping Cart program from Dreamline Studios. This failed to deliver the promised automatic download function, despite an inordinate amount of troubleshooting by myself and friends. All I can say about Dreamline Studios is that I hope they go out of business very soon because their support is non-existent. Now I know why Steve Jobs hates Flash so much!!
I am still working on mixing and mastering of the (tentatively-titled) G7. Who knows when it will finally be adequate for release but it's in the lap of the Gods. It is likely that there will be mp3s of these songs available on the purchase page before too long. A similar state of affairs applies to the Curse of the Hot Rods re-master, and the bootleg DVDs of Kursaals and Hot Rods live and/or TV. A rough time frame might be that new songs will be downloadable in mp3 format by the end of January, while the rest will be dependent on my live appearance plans.
Live appearance plans! Ah! Yes! Tentative arrangements are being organized and equipment is being readied. The material that I plan to play will (I hope) cover most of my most popular songs, sometimes re-arranged to suit the new format of my live appearances, but still the same songs that many people have known and loved(?). I am intending to perform accompanied by my “virtual” band, that is, a MacBook Pro, which I will have pre-programmed, using Logic and Mainstage. I tried out a few songs at the birthday celebrations of my good friend, David Hatfield, there might be some audio files from this soon. Further files might also be uploaded from my appearance at the Stenkumlastock celebration on a magical island.
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