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From the people who robbed you of two minutes of your life with the first episode, comes the high oictane adventure follow up, TA LYNDON - Episode 2.

AND NOW, from the people who brought you TA LYNDON - Stormcellar resident cartoonist,

comes a brand new, ground breaking, edge of your seat must see show -

TA LYNDON TALKS ABOUT STUFF.

And things.

If you waste any time today, waste it with a show that's not even about nothng.

TA LYNDON. Name Coming Soon!

Howdy Folks.

Firstly, a big congrats to D and R for their amazing nuptials on Sunday.

Yes, whilst the rest of the band were hanging out at the Mal Eastick/Milena Barrett Fundraiser, I was singing along with the congregation at R & D's wedding.

In fact I know D will appreciate the contraction as he's really into R&D (full pun intended.works on two levels, awesome!). Mazel Tov! You crazy kids...

I had a scant few minutes of the reception before I had to bolt for the car and the Mal Eastick Gig, arriving with 10 minutes to spare (whew) thanks to Traffic and the fact that the gig was so popular that there was no parking, even in the secret little back street parking areas known only to locals (NOOO!!).

I had to side street park some way away, do a superman outfit change in the back of the car and bolt for the show.

As a result, I am light on the photos and vids and we can all hope the boys will finally get around to blogging some shots (fer crying out loud guys you all have logins and passwords, what gives? We're still waiting for Rosies blog from the US tour!)

I did get one good shot of Rosie

and a quick vid to illustrate the good turn out.

Howdy Folks - Sunday mid morning update, looks like everythign is on track for the fundraiser this afternoon and there seems to have been plenty of ticket sales so it should be a packed house.

As these things can be a bit variable, we're estimating that we should be onstage somewhere between 4:30 and 5:30.

We  think.

But why worry when there are so many good acts. 

See you there.

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We're helping to show the love and send Mal and Melina off to Memphis Next year.

A great lineup (yes I would say that, wouldnt I?)

$25 for a lotta music folks :-) Sunday 1st December, Bald Faced Stag hotel in Leichhardt.

Howdy Folks, well it's been a big week of teeny tiny little things not quite working.

As per usual, when the site's quiet, it's cos we're off in the lab, wiring up a new contraption.

Sometimes, things work out, sometimes, you get...well..Fail.

Over the last few years we have tried various weird and wonderful experiments

For example, the Reactors (sound reduction cabinets for on site recording during Hired Guns)

All in all a WIN, despite the fact that the boys wanted to do over dubs anyway, we still used live takes and we kept the amp spill out of the drums.

Less successful was the home built stabiliser I made for a camera

the stabilizer kind of works but we had FAIL because it was a video clip for our song about Ned Kelly (Last Drinks at Glenrowan) and the dude cast as NED shaved his fricking beard off for a different role a week before production..

Sigh.

This week I have been trying to arrange multiple things and so far...

Now in my usual way, I abide by the rule of 'if you don't have something nice to say...'

However, during a discussion with Mr Wizard about 'stuff', it dawned on me that I'm Ok with FAIL.

I don't like it, I strive to avoid it, but I don't see it as singular punishment from the Gods, it's just background noise.

We have done some fun things because we're willing to try and then get back up and try something else, or even the same thing again.

So to celebrate FAIL, here are some happy moments of FAIL this week!

Scheduling? Getting details from engineers? Confirming dates? 

(sigh)

We'll try again next week.

Partly my fault for not following up on this thing sooner, we sent our TASCAM US 1800 away for repairs, they sent it back to us still broken and I was so mad I let it sit there for a month before chasing it up to get it repaired. Suffice to say it didn't go well and now it would come in handy so I did a final test and nope, it's a brick. IMHO the TASCAM recorder is not a reliable device and the local support is not so crash hot. I put my hand up fro not following up fast enough but I kind of feel like I got jerked around until the warranty expired and then left high and dry.

Right, rant done.

Am I going to frip and caper about? Nope. We'll just keep trying.

Long live the fail! May we avoid it wherever possible and make light of it when unavoidable.

ARRRR!!!!!