Leonard Smalls

Toilet On The Sea - Stranglers

The Stool On The Hill - The Beatles

WC you later, Alligator! - Bill Haley and His Comets

Destination Out - Last Exit

Patches are the programmed FX chains... There's thousands of slots available for new ones, you can either put them together yourself or download from various places.

Mine never has, in the 5 years I've had it! It's failed to boot up twice, and both times off/on started it up nicely. Is the software up to date? Are patches too resource hungry, or from a dodgy source?

Captain Kirk has got a date on the Enterprise Holodeck with Nurse Chapel in his favourite romantic piano bar on Aurora Prime. However, alien microbes have got into the matrix so when Kirk goes to find Christine admiring the view from the bar's private beach he finds she's actually a bloke called Derek from Redditch... This month I've sort of followed the Baloney route, to some extent! I programmed a manic 150bpm drum track, and did a 1 take bass improvisation over the top. Then I stuck 2 tracks of piano "accompaniment" on it and 3 tracks of wah guitar noodlings. Drums programmed using Impulse pads triggering identical midi sounds from EZ Drummer (Clyde Stubblefied kit), and Ableton's Arizona and Exposed kits. Bass is Sandberg DI-ed via Focusrite (double tracked, touch of delay on 1 track). Piano is Ableton's Grand Piano, and guitar is a battered Strat with clean Helix wah and Bias FX bluesdrive. Everything is rolled in Ozone 9 and Neutron 3.

Coming up soon, 1st public Weeds gig in at least 9 years. We're actually thinking of having a rehearsal! Exciting support bands too, and limited capacity...

Einstein a go-go - Landscape

Ride a White Swan - T Rex

The one that was cancelled was from Manchester to Carmarthen... Which caused me to miss the connection in Shrewsbury to the little max 2 carriage train you mention - that's the Heart of Wales line to Swansea and there's only 4 a day!

I remember back in the early 90s I walked the Tour de Mont Blanc with my girlfriend... We carried a tent, and food/clothes for 7 days - being fit we managed the 100+ miles in 4 days but we'd sweated like pigs as it was also warm. When we got back to Chamonix we looked for gifts for folks, a friend of ours was well into Reblochon so we bought her a decent lump. As we were going home on the coach I'd put on my lightweight shoes for the journey back so the only safe place to put the Reblochon was in my mountain boot (the one I'd been wearing for 25+ very sweaty miles per day) in my pack. The nearly 24 hour journey was accomplished in sweltering heat - 30+C - so we naturally worried a bit about the cheese. However, there was nothing we could do... When we got back the cheese had melted into the shape of my boot, but we stuck it in the fridge and gave it to our friend the following day. A week later we saw her and she thanked us effusively for the cheese- "it's the best I've ever had!" she said.

Silent Land - Material

Git Down - Gaye Bykers On Acid

Y'all will be pleased to hear that Bass On A Train worked fine... Minor problems were dragging the huge and heavy wheeled kitbag containing clothes and flightcased Helix up a flight of stairs in Shrewsbury (bass comfy strapped to back), long walk to change at the extra-isolated platform in Manchester Piccadilly and 10 minute walk in Blackpool to B&B. I sent the Helix back in the Band van to save carrying it again, which was good as connection was cancelled in Piccadilly meaning far more walking between different platforms to actually find out what was going on. End result was that I liked the actual train part, but not the changes nor the fact that out of 6 trains one was cancelled meaning connection missed and arriving home 6 hours late!