tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1048746194641636535Thu, 22 Apr 2010 07:41:00 +0000http://www.sleepless.com.au/blog/blogger.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Damian)Blogger70125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1048746194641636535.post-3779178661247005306Thu, 22 Apr 2010 07:41:00 +00002010-04-22T17:11:00.484+09:30 This blog is now located at http://listentosleepless.blogspot.com/. You will be automatically redirected in 30 seconds, or you may click here. For feed subscribers, please update your feed subscriptions to http://listentosleepless.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default. http://www.sleepless.com.au/blog/2010/04/this-blog-has-moved.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Damian)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1048746194641636535.post-9108900686602920152Sun, 11 Apr 2010 13:47:00 +00002010-04-11T23:19:08.585+09:30Losing my head ... anyone you hold dear can hold/let you ... to ransom ... down ... responsible ... gohttp://www.sleepless.com.au/blog/2010/04/losing-my-head.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (emmeljay)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1048746194641636535.post-1672380277287641941Sun, 11 Apr 2010 13:44:00 +00002010-04-11T23:16:43.895+09:30Paperweight ... a sandbag a drawbridge a lighthousehttp://www.sleepless.com.au/blog/2010/04/paperweight.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (emmeljay)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1048746194641636535.post-2075402620089007868Sun, 11 Apr 2010 13:43:00 +00002010-04-11T23:14:36.927+09:30Small Mercies ... with trumpet - h&c stylehttp://www.sleepless.com.au/blog/2010/04/small-mercies.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (emmeljay)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1048746194641636535.post-3858235009412591894Sun, 11 Apr 2010 13:42:00 +00002010-04-11T23:13:13.748+09:30Spineless ... how do I know what you tell others about me?http://www.sleepless.com.au/blog/2010/04/spineless.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (emmeljay)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1048746194641636535.post-1700033507055570519Sun, 11 Apr 2010 13:40:00 +00002010-04-11T23:11:53.275+09:30Blossom ... you're fighting things that you or I can't seehttp://www.sleepless.com.au/blog/2010/04/blossom.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (emmeljay)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1048746194641636535.post-3448816871635469561Sun, 11 Apr 2010 13:37:00 +00002010-04-11T23:09:06.679+09:30A Question Never Shared ... something I never saidhttp://www.sleepless.com.au/blog/2010/04/question-never-shared.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (emmeljay)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1048746194641636535.post-5154098589479061388Sun, 11 Apr 2010 13:35:00 +00002010-04-11T23:06:13.254+09:30Holding Pattern ... they got into a ruthttp://www.sleepless.com.au/blog/2010/04/holding-pattern.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (emmeljay)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1048746194641636535.post-9164259618520137191Sun, 11 Apr 2010 13:33:00 +00002010-04-11T23:07:09.768+09:30Certain Visitors ... sometimes you need a shoulder, sometimes your shoulder's neededhttp://www.sleepless.com.au/blog/2010/04/certain-visitors.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (emmeljay)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1048746194641636535.post-5155366341025471429Sun, 11 Apr 2010 13:30:00 +00002010-04-11T23:00:57.894+09:30Oh Darling ... are you wearing thinhttp://www.sleepless.com.au/blog/2010/04/oh-darling.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (emmeljay)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1048746194641636535.post-3730081848111567664Sun, 11 Apr 2010 13:29:00 +00002010-04-11T22:59:38.297+09:30Mud ...http://www.sleepless.com.au/blog/2010/04/mud.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (emmeljay)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1048746194641636535.post-3934313967304589561Sun, 11 Apr 2010 13:27:00 +00002010-04-11T22:58:10.893+09:30Trouble ...http://www.sleepless.com.au/blog/2010/04/trouble.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (emmeljay)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1048746194641636535.post-1009544361447436305Sun, 11 Apr 2010 13:17:00 +00002010-04-11T22:54:29.138+09:30small mercies the b******s versionhttp://www.sleepless.com.au/blog/2010/04/small-mercies-66.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (emmeljay)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1048746194641636535.post-239544666424511773Sun, 27 Sep 2009 11:21:00 +00002009-09-27T21:10:06.078+09:30... this is content of an email discussion I had with Matt Reiner regarding some of the potential i see in Quiet Pop (it occured before the Gov $$$ issue came up) ...I have been very interested in the recording project and also the birth and evolution of Quiet Pop ... I have been thinking and would like to share some ideas ... some considerations ... 1. I think that Matt did a great job at http://www.sleepless.com.au/blog/2009/09/quiet-pop.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (emmeljay)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1048746194641636535.post-1876085420025087470Tue, 26 May 2009 04:22:00 +00002009-05-26T14:04:13.167+09:30You can find recodings of these songs at www.sleepless.com.au/songs ... look in wallflower red, black and blue ...Current hitsTroubleLet Me Adore YouIt’s OverGraceHolding PatternSmall MerciesLet Me OutBright NoteMudOh DarlingTime HealsFamiliar TracksVehiclesLosing my headDarkSpinelessCertain VisitorsA stone in my shoe (tightrope)Miss BassetCarry youPaperweight (She keeps)Everything is not alwayshttp://www.sleepless.com.au/blog/2009/05/host-of-songs-to-choose-from.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (emmeljay)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1048746194641636535.post-471560421097704124Thu, 07 May 2009 12:52:00 +00002009-05-07T22:55:50.469+09:30I would like us to look for ways to improve ... find things that work and then look for "the next step" ... raise the standardI think that the way for us to improve is to be specific about the areas for improvement and deliberate in our strategies to achieve "improvement"We should make a list of things ... specific things ... that we want to change/improveWe need "permission" from each other to http://www.sleepless.com.au/blog/2009/05/improvement-no-baggage.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (emmeljay)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1048746194641636535.post-8052526877849562068Thu, 07 May 2009 09:30:00 +00002009-05-07T19:17:00.090+09:30I really like the future for us...Get tight againStart the recording process for the next album, (VERY exciting, record an Orange as aplace to start)Play gigs in a way that really suits us, (Sit down, Make a sound I can only describe as a food you really like to eat, be entertaining)Getting tightHow can we short-cut the re-learning and remembering of songs?Professional musicians do it by http://www.sleepless.com.au/blog/2009/05/future.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Damian)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1048746194641636535.post-8886595236719921177Sun, 01 Feb 2009 01:23:00 +00002009-02-01T12:10:55.794+10:30this is a discussion that arose in the context of some email traffic with an adelaide music magazine ... I have edited some of the text (shown in [square brackets] ) to respect/protect the anonymity of the the author ... it interesting to get the other side of the story ...A discussion about local music … with [ADELAIDE MUSIC MAGAZINE] I wrote …We would be interested in what you thought of the http://www.sleepless.com.au/blog/2009/02/friendly-discussion-with-press.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (emmeljay)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1048746194641636535.post-3722958195538382226Fri, 30 Jan 2009 05:48:00 +00002009-10-01T00:01:32.440+09:30This is the Rip it Up - State of Sound interview in full (an edited version was published in RIU on Jan 22 2009) ... thanks to Scott McLennan for organizing it and to Rob Lyon for the questions ...Apart from having the best fish and chip shop in Adelaide what inspired the name "Semaphore" for this release?Semaphore was partly recorded at the old convent (Dominican Catholic School) on Military http://www.sleepless.com.au/blog/2009/01/riu-interview.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (emmeljay)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1048746194641636535.post-8419757628992044951Wed, 14 Jan 2009 13:28:00 +00002009-01-15T00:05:13.099+10:30RespectFeedbackEngagementInvestment... an audiencean audience is people/person who have respect for what you create ... respond to your music (emotionally and intellectually) ... engage with you (in a group or one to one) ... invest in you (time and effort) ...we can use the market to turn this into enough money to sustain the process ... http://www.sleepless.com.au/blog/2009/01/what-does-band-want.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (emmeljay)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1048746194641636535.post-5855759538083651374Wed, 14 Jan 2009 12:07:00 +00002009-01-14T23:57:06.285+10:30If we are going to "work around" the record industry using the internet what could it look like?I am thinking of a community ... similar to a radio listening community and a magazine subsciber community but based on the internet ...  instead of one to many relationship (dj to demographic, record company to customers, publisher to readers) the relationship would be more web-like ... there are http://www.sleepless.com.au/blog/2009/01/another-new-idea.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (emmeljay)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1048746194641636535.post-1083036581775171239Sun, 11 Jan 2009 12:58:00 +00002009-01-12T00:48:27.754+10:30it seems that we may be appearing in Rip it Up sometime soon (Jan 22 unless something goes wrong) ... it has been a long time (if ever ... did we get reviewed in the early days?) ... it looks like we'll get some space in State of Sound ... a bit of research shows that bands in this section get about 500 words written about them ... that usually they are promoting a "special" gig (mostly launches http://www.sleepless.com.au/blog/2009/01/rip-it-up.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (emmeljay)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1048746194641636535.post-79395129000645811Fri, 09 Jan 2009 05:24:00 +00002009-01-09T16:03:19.755+10:30This gives us 3 practices with Peter and should be comfortable.Thursday 15th JanWednesday 21st JanWednesday 28th Jan (without Peter)Thursday 5th FebPerhaps Peter and MLJ can continue lunchtime practices...Please let ME know if this time schedule needs changing.Damian http://www.sleepless.com.au/blog/2009/01/band-practice-schedule-jan-2009-before.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Damian)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1048746194641636535.post-7352978253290172941Wed, 07 Jan 2009 05:40:00 +00002009-01-07T16:37:47.104+10:30Sleepless is now a self-sufficient “cottage industry” ... more than a hobby/less than a career ... artisans ...We have found a sustainable way to write, produce, release and promote our music independentlyThe whole process is funded by gigs ... the punters are underwriting our recordings … by turning up to our gigs they ensure that the pubs continue to book us and pay us … simply by drinking beerhttp://www.sleepless.com.au/blog/2009/01/new-year-near-record-new-process.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (emmeljay)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1048746194641636535.post-8908143565669078686Mon, 03 Nov 2008 06:03:00 +00002008-11-03T16:42:01.546+10:30 Trouble Starts on A Change is from G to B E A Oh Darling Dropout when signing starts Mud Starts with fast shaker clean guit to dirty (soundcheck) (stop on G#m) you know what they say (A) Visitors <!--[if !supportLineBreakNewLine]--> <!--[endif]--> Intro V Ch V Ch Intro V Outro Small http://www.sleepless.com.au/blog/2008/11/some-notes.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (emmeljay)0