UKRM iCD 2005 - call for volunteers

Spurred on by the enthusiastic response for the 2005 UKRM Calendar I have
decided it would be most excellent to include a CD of ukrm-created music
with the calendar.

Again - this will happen regardless of the amount (or lack of it) of
interest/offers this post creates as I already have several tracks - some
you've heard - some you haven't, and several lyrics waiting be recorded.

What we need :
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1. Musicians & singers (of any ability) - the more the merrier
2. Lyricists & songwriters - to write 'amusing' ukrm-related lyrics to known
songs we can cover - or original songs/tunes.
3. Knob-meisters - people who have the ability and/or skill to record the
racket we make

How will we do it?
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It's unlikely we'll be organised enough to get together in any numbers to
seriously attempt to record anything (although it that happens, great!) so I
propose the following :

1. I'll collect your song ideas, lyrics, offers of help etc. via this
mailbox --> ukrmcd(at)robdunsford.com
2. I'll then circulate an email to all interested parties about the
suggestions.
3. We'll set a deadline for agreeing what we're going to attempt to record
for the CD.
4. Once the deadline has passed we'll source a suitable click-track or MIDI
file per song. These will be posted to a server for our disparate
musicians/singists to download so we are all 'singing from the same
hymn-sheet'.
5. You'll then have a couple of months to record any parts for the songs you
see fit.
6. Once the couple of months is up our Knob-Meisters will get to work mixing
the recorded parts into songs
7. The CDs will be duped and included with the 2005 UKRM Calendar.

Again - feel free to discuss the idea here but send the Good Stuff(tm) to
ukrmcd(at)robdunsford.com. This will ensure you are kept 'in the loop' as I
won't be posting regularly to the ng about this project.

Cheers

 

<waves>

I'm a bit of a numpty with music technology, so I'd rather put my gear
in the car and visit your extensive studio facilities than **** about
with plugging my guitar into my computer. And, my sound card's a bit
crap.

 

Good idea. Well I like it anyway.

I can sing, play keyboards a bit. Owen's a fantastic singer.

How about my Pillion Song, which goes to the tune of The Boxer. I've
posted it before and someone has, I believe, recorded it, but I can't
remember who it was. I'll post it again if you like.

Owen's driven a mixer.

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I'm not at all sure how to react to this information

 

He does lovely buttonholes.

 

Actually I think I've heard Owen sing, and my reaction is to reach for the
ear plugs.

 

It's already on the short-list...
...and it was me that recorded it, FFS!

Cool. Cheers.

 

I suppose it's all going to be "amusing" songs, is it?

 

Ah, good. I was hoping you'd surface. )

Not at all - the only pre-requisite is that the songs have been created or
reworked by ukrmers.

So you can send me over some of that ambient hungarian wolf-baying you've
been wondering what to do with all these years.

Seriously, it'd be great to have your influence on the CD. Make it so.

 

I just don't really like novelty songs[0]. And novelty songs about
newsgroups is just *so* close to being filk, and that's Not Good.

I don't really do "songs" at all, mind.

I've got a sort of slo-mo Latin Amyl/Balearic Beat instrumental cover
of "I will survive" you can have[1].

Well, things I can do:

Play keyboards
Play bass (badly)
Compose stuff
Produce stuff
mix and remix (both real and virtual - I have a Soundcraft 16:4:2 desk
somewhere or other).
be abusive about other people's material
etc.

Things I can't do:

Sing.

[0] this is not entirely true - I liked the "Nathanial Merryweather's
Songs to Make Love to your Old Lady by" CD hugely.
[1] sadly, this is actually true.

 

You also wanted to remix the UKRM song so you can't have been completely
unimpressed by it.

 

Hi Tone (appropriate name btw).

Was this band, V8, based in Telford by any chance?

My 'studio' is a PC in my tiny home-office.

Please email me your location etc to ukrmcd (at) robdunsford (dot) com so
I've got your email address etc.

Cheers

 

Not sure if you're interested but I can perform Jingle Bells by banging on
my desk and shouting.

It's very moving if I do say so myself.

 

that was OK. Except the laughing and revving bits at the start.

I wanted to remix it properly, though.

 

I'm sold.

Let me know when you've recorded it.

 

I'll sing if neede (used to do it for a living)

Dave

 

Dave Eades wrote

I would love to volunteer to sing but I like you all far too much.

 

I think we were generally pretty happy with it, I don't think the lack of a
monkey banging a tin drum in the background ever came up.

 

marina says...

Robbo has a licence for a JCB, so there, nah nah nah.

 

I thought he tended to pfaff about too much