Merry Christmas
Well this year has been one of great flux and flow. We are now in the great winter season..with all those dark nights. I am back in the studio writing new material and going to get back to working with Liz in the new year to create some new masterpieces. I've already formed a whole bunch of tracks that we are going to ease out into the live shows and see what you think of them all. I think they are great but heck I am biased as they are my babies, you may think my babies are ugly???
There are also going to be some some new faces popping up in the VP camp. We have new on bass Gabriel Woodger, on drums Dave Sankey and we are in the processes of selecting a new singer at the moment. Yes my bass player is actually called Gabriel...quite appropriate for this time of year. It has been a bit of an up and down year with rapid lineup changes and modifications to the live show, we thank you for bearing with us.
It has also been very exciting this year working on other peoples material such as Edi Johnson's stuff for his Shambles project (no not baby Shambles...I think they are crap!) that is acoustic hip hop. What is that you ask? well it is him (MCing) a guitarist and a beatboxer. It is real old school but fresh and origional. I have also been doing some chilling as I am a bit of a stress head and had a great time in Hong Kong and Beijing the other month. I love travelling, it is just such a buzz sitting in an airport and to think that you are going to leave for another country in an hour or so. Not though very good with the hour or so bit!! Not very good at sitting still!
It is going to be interesting to see where we are this time next year. It is awesome that there is a bit more DnB style stuff creeping into the charts (Pendulum actually getting onto radio 1!!!), there is also some other great stuff out there. really inspiring that Nizlopi with their JCB song success still want to stay being independant which is great. It may make the majors think that maybe they are stifling some forms of music by their conservatism. I also think that the DnB scene should shake itself up a bit and not go for the standard formulas. I want to wish you all an awesome Christmas, go crazy, do something new and exciting, turn the world upside down, spread a little love and the VP crew will see you all in the new year
There are also going to be some some new faces popping up in the VP camp. We have new on bass Gabriel Woodger, on drums Dave Sankey and we are in the processes of selecting a new singer at the moment. Yes my bass player is actually called Gabriel...quite appropriate for this time of year. It has been a bit of an up and down year with rapid lineup changes and modifications to the live show, we thank you for bearing with us.
It has also been very exciting this year working on other peoples material such as Edi Johnson's stuff for his Shambles project (no not baby Shambles...I think they are crap!) that is acoustic hip hop. What is that you ask? well it is him (MCing) a guitarist and a beatboxer. It is real old school but fresh and origional. I have also been doing some chilling as I am a bit of a stress head and had a great time in Hong Kong and Beijing the other month. I love travelling, it is just such a buzz sitting in an airport and to think that you are going to leave for another country in an hour or so. Not though very good with the hour or so bit!! Not very good at sitting still!
It is going to be interesting to see where we are this time next year. It is awesome that there is a bit more DnB style stuff creeping into the charts (Pendulum actually getting onto radio 1!!!), there is also some other great stuff out there. really inspiring that Nizlopi with their JCB song success still want to stay being independant which is great. It may make the majors think that maybe they are stifling some forms of music by their conservatism. I also think that the DnB scene should shake itself up a bit and not go for the standard formulas. I want to wish you all an awesome Christmas, go crazy, do something new and exciting, turn the world upside down, spread a little love and the VP crew will see you all in the new year
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