Brilliant idea, guys. Stunning. High-end games without a console. Hang on a second though, dudes - to fool your brain in to thinking you're doing something in real time you need about 12ms or less latency. Not 45ms. And 45 ms was achieved in a computer lab, and tests over the net are between 80 and 150ms? Oh well. Back to the drawing board.

Hello sailors!

I am having a small studio clearout. Can I tempt you? If none of you are interested at these mates-rates, it's Gum Tree for the both of them.

Peavey Milestone III bass guitar ( Read more... )

Well done Scotland. Allowing your fine citizens the opportunity to spend £12,500,000 of their own tax-pounds in a one-off cash injection on the arts is truly superb. Imagine how that will bolster the theatres, galleries and public performance venues that will be suffering while people are concerned about their smaller disposable income. I'm sure ( Read more... )

Never over-straining your events calendar, Februus are playing again in two months time at the Ark on the 22nd of February.

I enjoyed Tuesday. Even all the carrying.

This was our setlist:

From The Outside In
Kill The Innocents
LXI
Stay
Safe
A Memory Regained
Latter-Day Saint
Man Machine
Nailed
The Last Sound
This Is Halloween
Ebeneezer Goode

Fancy a nice relaxing evening with yummy alcohols, all your mates and two great bands? We do too! Tomorrow!

Februus & We Modern Cadets playing live
16th December
The Tron Basement
Hunter Square
Edinburgh
8pm til closing
No door charge

In other news, I am considering putting some money back into the UK economy again...


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The farcical proceedings of last night put me in a really, really rubbish mood. The sound guy had only worked at Henry's once before and didn't know the equipment. The venues DI boxes (which were converting the outputs from our mixer so they could connect to the stage box) stopped working 4 - out of a planned 10 - songs in. My microphone was ( Read more... )

This little article in The Skinny should make the Halloween party promotion less difficult. 500 flyers to the queue at Dragonforce/Turisas should seal the deal to making Henry's hooching.

My band Februus will be playing live for the first time in almost 2 years this Halloween ( Read more... )

A list style recap of the past couple of weeks ( Read more... )

I don't know if any of you are 'in' to classical music at all, but even if you're not you may still enjoy:

My favourite aria "Una Furtiva Lagrima" from Donizetti's "L'elisir d'amore" got stuck in my head yesterday evening and I had to do something about that.

There is now a version of it on the Februus MyspaceIt's a mix of hardware and software ( Read more... )