This just made me laugh – it is the video. They’ve done a get sync job…

Tags: dragonforce, eagles, mashups, Music

My band – We Made This (www.myspace.com/wemadethismusic) – recorded a world cup 2010 song a while back and last weekend shot a video for it.

Now I am not usually the first in the queue for football related things. Rather right back at the end kicking and screaming to get away. But this was a laugh and it turned out rather well!

Shot on the new 5Dm2, edited in Sony Vegas Movie Studio platinum pro (love that software). Had to convert the files from the 5D output to something vegas could cope with via Cinescore Neo Scene.

Hope you like it!

Tags: 5Dmk2, camera, film, football, Music, music video, videography, We Made This, world cup, world cup song

Well – it has!

But in my defence I did have to sort out the wedding (or at least do what Jules told me to do), get married, enjoy Hawaii and then get my head back into the real world. But I guess I have to accept that it really ought to be back by now…

Being married is ace by the way.

So what is on the horizon?

Trying to sort out an extension to the house – planning permission done, building regs nearly done – waiting for a conditional approval notice. Got one builder in the process of sorting a quote and waiting on another to get back to us to arrange meeting to go over plans.
As part of this want to put up a big shed in the garden and need to sort a quote for the base and the shed too.
Then there is the list of extra bits to do to the house if the money permits – replace the windows, redo the drive, redo the patio/deck, sort the garden – probably rotovate and returf, sort the garden at the front, properly insulate the loft. And anything else that pops out the woodwork…

In doing a load of sorting I discovered some old tapes of various bands I have been in and I really want to get them digitised. I’ll pop them all up here when I do. Might try recording them into cubase and splicing them up from there unless I can find a cheap service to do it for me…

Also got some photo stuff to sort as well as all the wedding photos to do, make a thank you card and album, etc..!

The band is going on – currently trying to get together a demo CD for festivals and stuff, as well as find the time to record a football anthem song! Seriously!

Then there is the film stuff – need to get on with Please Shoot Me, and there are a few other bits and pieces on the boil.

Finally www.ashmorevisuals.co.uk – need to get a new version of the website up and refine some of the photo galleries.

The list never ends.

Next year is going to be soooo busy…

Tags: ashmorevisuals, band, extension, future, General, house, Music, Photography, Plans, Wedding

Did the photography (all 4000 stills) for a music video for Don’t Move on Sunday. Lyle, Ben and Larry have been beavering away on turning it into this…

Cool or what!

Tags: don't move, Music, Photography, video

We are a little way down the road of recording the first two tracks for the first “We Made This” album.
We have recorded rough midi drum tracks (with me playing live along to Don’s guide guitar track and vocals) to all the songs on cubase and then I have tidied up two – by which I mean gone through and edited every note that was too far out of time or miss hit back into place. Which results in a very solid but still my dynamics drum track.
And we have also recorded the bass to those two tracks – with Mark off on hols soon we needed to get that in the bag.
Then it’s guitar and vocals to do.
Not bad for a home recording effort. All audio through my Joe Meek condenser mic and EQ/compressor. Not the best in the world but works brilliantly for us!
I’ll be updating the blog with the mixing settings – stuff like cut-off frequencies and effects and the like to keep a record!
Cool.

Tags: cubase, mixing, Music, Recording, We Made This

Now I’m not going to go on about the band just yet – plenty of time for that in future posts.

But check this logo out.

Hannah developed it for us (and we still owe her a bottle of wine to say thanks).

How cool is that!

We Made This B&W logo

Tags: Indi Pop, Logo, Music, We Made This