So...yeah...another month kind of slipped through my fingers there. Apologies.
But it's all for the greater good, as I'm sure you'll all come to realise...a year and a half from now. Christ, it just hit me: Before Project Group Hug is done, the world will have seen both a new
Faith No More album
and a new season of
Twin Peaks.
(Apologies again, it appears a blog post can't go by without mentioning one or the other these days)
SO, what's been happening? Aside from the book I've had my toe back in the waters of production music - who knows, you may hear one of my compositional masterworks next time you're flicking through your Freeview or being forced to wait on hold by some ungodly customer service department - whilst also doing a bit of visual stuff for Bristol upstarts
Rumpus Animation. Incidentally their first adventure game
Betram Fiddle: A Dreadly Business comes out for iOS tomorrow, have a look at the trailer:
I
might have had some involvement in that one as well. Just be wary of this lot:
Skwigly news - check out the latest
Lightbox episodes, starting with
Will Anderson and Ainslie Henderson, director of
Monkey Love Experiments which recently won itself a Scottish BAFTA.
After this one I took a bit of a break from the series to rethink our approach; Frankly I don't feel it's 'landed' and there may be a better direction to go with it. We shall see, but either way it's back as of today with none other than legendary Disney character designer/animator
Glen Keane. Have a watch of Julia Young's excellent interview, the extended version of which will go up next week to launch Lightbox+.
As with previous years we're running our daily advent calendar through to the 25th, with a new artist each day. Here's a smattering:
On the interview front I was absolutely delighted to get some more time with
Aardman's
Peter Lord (who I
previously interviewed in 2012 for his film
The Pirates! in an Adventure with Scientists) as well as Nick Park, the man behind
Wallace and Gromit which makes him a bit of a goddamn rockstar.
The interview went up on Monday in anticipation of tonight's Bristol Encounters event
Lip Synch: A 25 Year Celebration which looks back at some of the studio's early work, including their first Oscar winner in Nick Park's
Creature Comforts.
This era of their formative creativity represents my fondest memories of their work (well, on a par with
The Wrong Trousers) so it was a real treat to get some time to natter about it. Incidentally I had also previously chatted with
Richard 'Golly' Starzak, director of
Ident, in
episode 11 of the podcast which you can
download here). Special thanks to Kieran from Encounters for helping set up the interview, if you fancy swinging by the event you can
book tickets here.
On a musical note, I've been working on a special holiday sampler package as well as polishing a new album for Spring 2015. Supplementing this have been some 'practice' live shows where I've indulged my fondness for covers. Here's a stab at Mr. Bungle's
'Quote Unquote' (AKA 'Travolta'):
And keeping in the pale-Patton-imitation vein, last Saturday I closed my set with FNM throatripper
'Cuckoo For Caca'. If you make it all the way through it's followed by Danny Elfman's
'La Canzone di Sally' from
Nightmare Before Christmas, for those who've ever harboured the desire to know what I sound like singing a Disney love song in Italian. Which I can only logically assume is everyone.
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