It's Been a While

I'm not really much of a blogger and I guess that's evident in the fact I haven't been here for some time. The fact is that I have this other site, www.robhalligan.co.uk, facebook, twitter, a facebook band page... and being a musician rather than a slick, organized, technical kind of guy, things inevitably give.

I tried syncing facebook and twitter but as I tweet a lot, facebook followers don't appreciate the twittering as much as tweeters.
In the end, blogs suffer and facebook suffers. I'm sure there's ways for selectively syncing it all up and over the next few weeks I'll try and get my head around it all.

I'm in the studio today, half way through recording my next album, tentatively titled 'Another Fine Mess'. I'm not a studio musician. I find the recording process excruciating and aside from the actual play and record, I find it baffling when people tell me that it's an amazing creative process. The editing and tweaking and fine tuning... aagghh!
So I've sung and played and now the amazing Graeme Duffin is working his magic interpreting my ideas to an audible offering that resembles something vaguely pleasing to the ear.
There's been a couple of highlights. Leaving Coventry at 4:30am meant I saw the sun rise over the hills of the lake district.
I got to play a couple of great guitar as well. The first was a Fender Baritone Special. It gave the song a bit of a Richard Hawley vibe, something that we didn't intend but wont complain about. The second was a beautiful Gretsch Chet Atkins (G6120) that I played before on "Across The Miles".
So, the day's finished, one song is just about in the bag. Two more days studio work this week and then some live shows.