Chandra Moon's Blog

Happy New Year 2011

2010-12-30T21:54:00.003Z

Hi guys - I've had an wonderful year and hope 2011 will be even more amazing.

I'm going to record a second album, am marrying my partner and am moving back to Bristol!

I have a lovely family and friends and couldn't wish for more except to be able to see more of my close family - we all live quite a long way apart.

Love to everyone and best wishes for a great year ahead.

Vox Blog gone

2010-09-07T10:47:00.004+01:00

Hi guys - just to let you know that my Vox blog - like everyone else's - is now gone.

You can find me at Chandra's Blog

You can listen to my radio station Over The Moon and add it to any blog or website or just stream it on your computer. I update it nearly daily with all sorts of great music.

My own tracks are best listened to at Chandramoon at IAC

or Myspace

You can ask to add me as a friend on Facebook

or follow me on Twitter.

Still Blogging at Efx3 and Vox

2010-04-21T11:38:00.002+01:00

Just in case anyone follows me here I've added my Twitter feed and links to my main blogs

Efx3 Blog

or

Vox Blog

New Blog

2009-04-23T16:29:00.002+01:00

Hi guys - well I'm still blogging regularly at Efx2 and Vox and now also at the new Efx3 site

http://chandramoon.efx3.com

Hope to see you there.

Play it With Passion

2008-11-10T10:31:00.005Z

More Info

Please, Please do me a big favour!

2008-09-25T18:39:00.000+01:00

This is a friends only post to ask you a really big favour.

Some of you know I've been developing a music website to separate promoting my music from my day to day blogging. The website is nearly ready to go but before I go public I would be really grateful if you could visit it, browse about, check that the comment section and messaging works, give me honest feedback and suggestions and anything else you think!

Once I've finished it I'll go properly public with it before the end of the year.

Do bear in mind it's not a BLOG site so won't have the functionality of a blog but I want it to be a bit interactive and informative and personal.

So for those that have five minutes or so to spare can you visit

http://chandramoon.co.uk

Thanks guys!

Efx Blog

2008-07-08T17:24:00.000+01:00

While Efx blog is not working you can find me always at

VOX

Blogs

2008-04-03T17:12:00.003+01:00

It's too much trying to keep several blogs going and hardly anyone ever visits this one so my main one remains at

Main Blog

or if that's not working:

Back up blog

or my music's at:

Music

Back from the Gambia

2008-04-02T12:03:00.001+01:00

I'm back from a most wonderful trip. I got back late last night and have a lot to do before I can blog about it properly.

I have lots of photos which I'll put up on Facebook soon and I'll put some here and a link to the rest.

I have lots to tell you all so watch this space and I'll be on the case in the next couple of days.

Hope you're all well xxx

"Knowledge" Birthday

2008-03-16T13:51:00.001Z

Yesterday, March 15th was what I call my "Knowledge" birthday.

On that day in 1972 I was taught some simple but wonderful meditation techniques by my spiritual teacher Prem Rawat (Maharaji) which have been my anchor throughout my life.

The teaching is very simple and doesn't clash with any religions or promote a particular lifestyle but just shows a way to connect with your own inner self.

When I practice it regularly it gives me genuine inner happiness and peace and whatever's going on in my every day life it provides a constant point of reference.

So thankyou Maharaji for enhancing my life and giving it real purpose.

Words Of Peace

A Zillion Things

2008-03-12T22:01:00.006Z

Well I didn't do my second Monday blog because I was in London staying with my son and visiting friends for a few days.

Before I left, on Saturday night I went to an acoustic, benefit gig for a sick woman who's raising money for treatment that's not available on the NHS. Apart from the fact I got absolutely drenched walking to the venue (I literally had to wring my trousers out!) it was a fun night out.

Hotwells Howlers

David Mowatt and Anders Olinder

Tim Caswell and Co

After the gig, a friend I'd met last year at a festival came back to my place for the night so we chatted and played guitar into the early hours.

Sunday morning, I drove to London to spend time with my son before I go off to Africa next week. In the evening he'd organised a dinner party of loads of his mates - he lives in a big warehouse and sitting round the table were young people from Poland, Venezuela, Cuba, Columbia, Hungary, South Africa, France, Italy, Australia.........plus of course a couple of Brits! That's what I adore about London - the diversity is wonderful. Mostly they're artists, photographers, musicians and creative people in general and we had a really interesting evening - very Bohemian I guess you'd call it.

On Monday we went to the Tate Modern and I managed to get a few pictures though you're not supposed to take them.

The amazing Juan Munoz

The "Crack" in the Turbine Hall

It's a mystery how they've done this crack - I don't know if it's art or not but it IS fascinating though lot of people have broken their ankles in it!

Dan in the Tate Cafe

Looking Across the Thames to St Pauls Cathedral

On Monday night, we went to the launch of a new small venue in Tottenham - these gorgeous girls were the welcome party! It was also a planning session for a local carnival and my son and pals are going to take a float for the parade.

Salsa Cubana

My son flew off to Amsterdam on Tuesday morning to see his girlfriend and I went to spend a few hours with a really old friend of mine and then drove back to Bristol in time for drumming and the Presence Open no mic night!

Algy

Phew!!!!!!

Today, I've been at songwriting group and tonight I have a practice. Tomorrow I'll concentrate on making sure I've got everything I need to take to the Gambia - they need various things for the project I'm going to be working at and it's important to take the right first aid stuff etc.

Anyway ----------------- that was a monster post so expect nothing more for a little while!!

Hope you're all well. xx

Watershed Drumming

2008-03-08T15:24:00.002Z

As promised, a short post about today's drumming at the Watershed. The event was to celebrate 50 years of the organisation VSO (Voluntary Service Overseas) linked to International Womens Day. There were over 200 people there - many of whom had themselves done VSO in the past going back to the 50s.

We played for about half an hour to open the session and it went well. We played some things we'd practiced as well as some improvised stuff.

I gave my camera to someone but she only took one pic of us playing and most of the rest were blurred! Never mind - here's a pic of our group Sul Beat and of the cake!

Dumming at The Watershed

2008-03-08T09:54:00.001Z

Just a quick line to let you know I'm drumming today at Bristol Watershed as part of International Womens Day. We're doing the opening ceremony - a half hour slot playing 4 different singing and drumming pieces. We're a very small group so I'm a bit nervous but I guess it'll be ok!

I'll try and get someone to take some photos.

2008-03-05T22:40:00.006Z

Well what a treat I had on Tuesday night. I went to the usual Miners Arms Open no mic and there was a guest slot from a guy called Michael Basset
http://www.myspace.com/michaelbasset
and website

He had a violinist/viola player with him and a bass player and they played a wonderful set - he plays guitar with a great gift of rhythm which echoes of ancient percussion. He has the most unique voice spanning a great range and marvellous lyrics. I really think he's one of the best things I've seen in a while. He's an American singer songwriter currently living here in the UK.

Michael Bassett

I feel so privileged to get to see so much live music. The Tuesday sessions are amazing - you see complete beginners to really polished acts - but all are respected and the people really listen - I love playing there. Sarah Joy, the woman who runs the evening is a really good singer songwriter as well.

Sarah Joy

Today I went to the songwriting group and this evening I had a practice with Paddy (keyboard player). We have a gig on April 18th here in Bristol.

By the way - did I tell you that I'm off to the Gambia on Mar 18th for a couple of weeks. I'm going to do voluntary work at the WYCE project, attend the Kartong Festival, do a live radio interview/set and then have a week's drumming lessons with Modou Diouf. I'm so excited - I haven't been away out of the country for ages.

Chandramoon's Monday Blog No 1

2008-03-03T11:45:00.005Z

As I'm often too busy to blog on the weekends, I thought I'd start a regular Monday blog to report about whatever gigs, happenings, excitements or trivia that have occurred to me since Friday!

Hopefully this will become a regular spot so they may be longer posts than usual! I'll report on Bristol things or festivals if I've been at them.

So......where to start?

Saturday
Got off to a bad start - I attended a Music Lab, run by one of my drum teachers in the morning only to find it was cancelled due to lack of interest....extraordinary because it was a great opportunity lost to make music with a really talented teacher.

In the afternoon I had a practice scheduled with a guy who plays drums and harmonica - cancelled due to his poorly self (mmmmm what's wrong with Saturday so far)!

I made a homemade Pear Cake in preparation for Mother's Day on the Sunday but the day didn't start properly till 9pm when I went out to the Kuumba Project in St Pauls to a great Latin night called "If I Can't Dance It's Not My Revolution".

What a stomping night. The first band was called El Mercado de Miran fronted by a very talented female singer/percussionist - it was a small line up but really good consisting of a keyboard, cajones (kind of beat box), a guitarist and the singer.

El Mercado de Miran

The sound engineering was awful which was a shame as the musicians were brilliant.

The second band was an incredible family line up called Colores de Mi Tierra (Comlumbian) with the front woman being extremely pregnant notwithstanding which she danced, sang and shook her shakers with great verve! The drummer was about 10 and the girl dancers just children - amazing energy and got everyone dancing

Colores de mi Tierra

Finally, well known Bristol band Orquesta de Montpelier did their thing and the whole crowd danced till 2am - the heat in the room was almost overpowering but the music made it impossible not to dance till you dropped.

Orquesta de Montpelier

What a fantastic night out! There are lots more photos on this Facebook album More Photos

Me after dancing for about 4 hours!

Sunday was Mothers Day in the UK so I had a lovely afternoon with my mum (eating the yummy cake which I so rarely bake ha ha).

Last night I played at the open mic at the Tantric Jazz Cafe, my usual Sunday night haunt. It went well and I sold a CD to someone as well as got a chance to play several songs including a piano piece, as they've got a keyboard there now.

OK - that's my weekend - just a snippet of the rich musical life in Bristol every weekend.

Windy

2008-02-29T21:58:00.001Z

It's bloody windy tonight.

Shadow Puppets

2008-02-28T15:54:00.002Z

Some of you may remember a song I put up here before (lyrics) called Shadow Puppets about insomnia.

I've now worked out a melody and rough arrangement with my keyboard player. For those of you interested in hearing the tune for this song click this link

Shadow Puppets

I always welcome feedback at this stage before it's finally recorded!

Earthquake

2008-02-27T09:15:00.001Z

Well living in safe old England I didn't think I'd be reporting on an earthquake today!!

Last night I got back from the Miners Arms open no mic and had a quick catch up on line of various things. It was quite late, sometime after 1am and I was lazily lying on my sofa in my study with my Mac. I was kind of drifty awake/asleep when the whole sofa started vibrating and I thought that maybe the neighbours were shifting furniture or something. But it went on for quite a long time and there was no noise associated. I jolted properly awake and thought I was going a bit mad because we don't have earthquakes here!!

Anyway - once it was finished I started wondering if I'd imagined the whole thing then I saw on Wozza's Facebook that he too had felt it in LONDON!

I went to bed and this morning on the news it was confirmed that we'd had the strongest earthquake for years reported all over the country with the epicentre in Lincoln - phew - I'm not going mad after all. I wish I was though - I don't like the idea of earthquakes over 5.2 on the Richter Scale!!!

Fleece and Firkin

2008-02-27T01:04:00.002Z

As promised a few words about last night's gig at the Fleece. It was a singer songwriter night so was mainly acoustic songwriter's with their own backing bands.

The warm up act was a solo female singer called Lenny Savage. She had a great voice but although I thought she was very good, I can't remember a thing about the actual songs - maybe I'd need to hear them a few more times for them to make more of an impression.

Lenny Savage

There was another act then Ryan Inglis who was the main guy I'd gone to see. He writes funky, memorable songs and has a great voice and lots of energy. He has an album coming out soon so we've done a swap!

Ryan Inglis

The headline act was a woman called Sally Ann Langton and although she was good, for some reason I'd had enough after a couple of tracks and came home!

I went down there on my own but a couple of people I'd texted joined me, which was nice - it's good making new friends.

Monday

2008-02-26T12:00:00.002Z

I had a good tennis session this morning - I really enjoy playing tennis - it de-stresses me, keeps me fit and is a good social group as well.

This evening I'm going to a free gig at The Fleece and Firkin, a songwriters night with at least 3 performers - I'll take my camera and post something tomorrow.

I'm looking forward to planning my new proper website - it'll have a forum facility for people to discuss songwriting, lyrics etc etc as well as everything to do with my music - less of the personal stuff more of the music. This blog will then remain mainly personal though of course, music will always be an integral part of the topics as it's what I do!

Quickie

2008-02-22T18:04:00.005Z

Hi - I thought I'd grab a minute to post something up about this week so far.

I've felt quite flat after all the excitement of getting the CD finished and the gig done although I've still got so much to do!

The next stage is getting the CD played on local and hopefully national radio and I'm going to start compiling a list of places to send it! Any ideas feel free to suggest them or any contacts any readers have.

I had a good meeting with a young website guy whose going to help me build a proper music website as at the moment I have three blogs, a Facebook AND a Myspace. That's not a problem but the boundaries of which is for what is blurred and I don't want friends here for example to feel I'm spamming them to buy my album so the music website will be separate. That doesn't mean I'll stop blogging about songwriting etc here (though I'll move my lyrics to the new website and videos etc) so people who are interested can go and visit there without feeling pressured to buy my CD etc!

I've also had a lot of work to do this week in regard to a couple of organisations I work with, including having to make difficult business decisions. Can't write about it here for obvious reasons of confidentiality!

Last night, I had a great evening. One of the guys from our songwriting group is leaving Bristol and heading off to live with his new girlfriend in London so we organised a goodbye party for him and as I have a big house we had it here!

There were about 15 people and as we are all musicians it turned into a tremendous jam sessions (pity the neighbours!)

Tonight I have a couple of friends coming to dinner and tomorrow I have a guy coming to do some drumming and see how it works out!

Friendship

2008-02-16T11:16:00.001Z

Several things have happened recently to make me really think hard about friendship and what it means to me.

Who are my REAL friends, who truly cares about me, who do I truly care about etc etc? What would they do for me and what would I do for them? Where do I draw the line in the sand?

None of these questions have clear or easy answers.

Sometimes, people I don't really think of as close friends (or hadn't) suddenly do the most amazing, kind and thoughtful things and you realise they really care about you and are prepared to put themselves out for you in a surprising and unexpected way!

Other times, someone you thought would be there till the end of time, just completely lets you down or worse is cruel and unkind.

Other people that I see in real life really often - like my closest couple of girlfriends who I see virtually every week and couldn't imagine not being there are my absolute anchors. My close family are sometimes more like friends than family too and I am so lucky where I live to have wonderful neighbours in my street who I know I can call on when I need to and they know they can knock on my door any time.

Others again, I see maybe once or twice a year and yet when we get together it's as if time stopped and we just pick up where we left off.

My spiritual teacher/guru is like a friend to me too although I only see him at a distance maybe once a year!

Then there are the internet friends and bloggers who have become as much a part of my life, and sometimes an even greater part in that I talk about stuff here that often my real life friends don't necessarily get to hear, also give me genuine kindness and feedback and encouragement and I try to do the same.

I don't know where this is going - I'm just rambling on - but as I said - some things have happened to make me really appreciate the nature of friendship recently and also how sometimes people can just turn from being your friend to being something else or from not being a friend to suddenly supporting you at an unexpected moment.

One thing which I know is probably not a good idea is to rely on just one person to be your only friend and that can happen very easily when you're in a relationship with someone - I know people who when they are in a relationship they forget their other friends until something goes wrong then suddenly they'll call you! Only human of course ha ha!

I'm rattled at the moment but I am so grateful to my real friends for being there whether it's off or online!

New Song - No Friend Of Mine

2008-02-10T16:04:00.000Z

Here's a little video of the rough idea of my latest song called No Friend Of Mine which I wrote at the beginning of the week. Sorry if you're on dial up!

It needs a few more chords and I'd like to record it with bass and simple drums - really bluesy! You can hear the tambourine rhythm which I do with my foot while I'm playing!

Strange Week

2008-02-08T18:43:00.000Z

Hello again! This week has been good but I felt very strange. Firstly, after all the frantic preparation and nerve wrackingness of last Friday's big gig I felt a bit flat. Don't get me wrong - it went fantastically and I couldn't be happier as to how it went and it was wonderful to have my closest friends, family, neighbours etc at the gig. It just felt strangely quiet afterwards.

Also, I was still very upset about something a friend had done and I needed to process those feelings. So I did what I usually do when I need to think - jumped into Moon Palace on a whim and went off for a couple of days!

I went to a small campsite near a bird reserve which I love called Slimbridge.

On Monday, I sat and wrote a song about my feelings (I've posted the words already in my parallel blog here Song Lyrics - see link on right) and worked out how to play it. I hear the songs in my head first then have to find the notes and chords on the guitar or piano.

On Tuesday, I spent a few hours at the bird sanctuary until the tipping rain forced me to leave!

This was the biggest swan I've ever seen - this doesn't convey it's size but it seemed nearly as tall as me!

On Wednesday, I went to songwriting group as usual and had a band practice in the evening. It was good to start working on some new tunes. Tonight I have a meeting with a successful Bristol singer and she's going to give me some much-needed advice about getting tracks played on radio etc.

Amazingly, this week I've slept like the dead - this morning I woke 10am - absolutely unheard of for me so I must be much more tired than I realise! Usually I sleep maybe 6 hours if I'm lucky and this week I've been sleeping about 8 hours every night - weird!

Anyway - I've sold quite a few CDs and it's exciting sending them out to different destinations round the planet!

If you want a copy just click the Buy Now button on the right.

So - have a happy weekend whatever you're doing - I'll be going to some gigs etc as usual and hopefully trying to organise some new smaller gigs to keep the momentum going.

Bye for now xx

Album Launch Party

2008-02-03T13:43:00.001Z

I've finally got some time to sit down and write about the album launch party on Friday. It was FANTASTIC - I couldn't have asked for it to have gone better. I know that I played as well as I could and that the other musicians involved were all BRILLIANT.

My son and daughter did an opening set then I performed with the small band I'd put together for the night (keyboard/flute, lead guitar, percussion and backing vocals and me on acoustic guitar/keyboards).

Earlier last week, someone I'd considered one of my best friends virtually sabotaged the whole thing by a very unkind act but I was able to get past it and the show went on as planned - I came to the conclusion that he had his own issues rooted in jealousy and envy and that there was nothing I could do about it.

We had wonderful visuals comprising slide show/movie clips which synced up to the set and really made the show something special - everyone said how much they enjoyed themselves. The venue is a Polish ex-servicemens' club here in Bristol which is a great little place which holds about 200 and it was packed out - thankfully it was a sell out!

Getting ready on the night was hectic, especially as it was my first "proper" gig so I was on a steep learning curve! After my son and daughter had played, we played the title track off the album - Full Circle - then the MC and I had an onstage chat about what had inspired me to start writing and the main message I was trying to get across was that it's never too late to try and follow your creative voice (I didn't write my first song till I was 50) and follow a dream.

Then we played our set of seven live tracks from the album, the first on keyboard with flute:

The rest was on guitar with various combinations of the musicians. We finished off with a rousing version of People of This Earth (one of the tracks on myspace) and it was very, very exciting with everyone seeming to really enjoy it!

All my nerves seemed to evaporate once the first track was done and I thoroughly enjoyed playing the rest of the set.

After a short break, the wonderful Helele band played and everyone let their hair down and danced their socks off till chucking out time.

It was fantastic having all my close friends and family there plus lots of people I'd never seen in my life before!

I was also very aware of the support of those people who couldn't be there that I knew would have liked to have been.

There are loads more pictures on my facebook album so here's the link to that

More Photos

If you'd like to read a review and/or buy a copy of the album you can do so at CDbaby

Blog Holiday

2008-01-30T17:41:00.000Z

Don't be surprised if you don't see a post here for a few days - things are hotting up this end with final preparations for Friday's gig plus I'll have a houseful of people for the weekend and I need to do the usual shopping and cleaning stuff too.

I went to song writing today and it was just what I needed after a particularly ghastly day yesterday as a result of someone I thought was a very good friend dumping on me from a very great height! Luckily, I have wonderful supportive friends and family and I feel better today - though still very rattled as it made me feel quite ill and I don't need that right now. I wish this person had waited till after Friday to spew vitriol on me.

Anyway, enough of negative stuff; last night, after drumming, I met some friends for someone's birthday bash and did a couple of songs at Presence, one of my regular open mic spots - I felt like smashing the guitar up but managed to restrain myself ha ha!

So, hopefully people will take lots of pictures on Friday which I'll post up here and anyone who'd like to buy the album will be able to shortly - I'm just sorting out the Paypal thing. Anyone from the UK can just pm me and send me a cheque the simplest and cheapest!

So........that's about it for a few days - none of you will ever realise how much your support has meant to me over the last few months of organising this gargantuam project and I thank you again.

Weekend So Far

2008-01-27T14:38:00.001Z

Last night I played flute and djembe for a friend at a great little gig in Bristol. We were on first and there were a couple more bands then a DJ and I had a great night dancing my head off and it was good as I needed to let off a little steam though I have bad headache this morning - I didn't drink a lot really but it hasn't done me much good - I had two pints of Guinness actually!

Today I'm having coffee with a friend then will do some more practice of my songs for Friday ...the days are ticking away now. Tonight I'll do a couple of open mics - that's all I can do now.

Gigs and Practice

2008-01-25T09:36:00.001Z

The last couple of evenings I've gone out with various pals to a couple of gigs. The first, at the Prom, was a folk rock band whose name escapes me. Last night I had a band practice for MY gig then we went to a punk gig at The Croft.

Very noisy, so I used earplugs, that way you can actually hear the words surprisingly and not end up deaf for two days. The band was called The Disseminators and are very good though not my favourite kind of music. The drummer was very good (and fit ha ha) and the lead guitarist is a friend from songwriting and is extremely good!

The practice went pretty well though it's hard to imagine what it will feel like on the stage as we've never played together before - I think it will be alright - and if it isn't - well all I can say is I couldn't have tried harder to get it the best we can.

I need a dream by Malusi

2008-01-24T00:08:00.000Z

This young poet is called Malusi and he comes to our songwriting group - he's brilliant. Judge for yourself.

Quote For My Life

2008-01-23T09:51:00.001Z

I heard this just now on the radio and thought it would be the quote of my life as it resonated so strongly with me:

"When your heart speaks, take good notes......"

If you see something that really moves you and you feel you might be able to do something about it - then do!

If you wake in the night and think it would be a good idea to write down your thoughts - then do!

If you think you can make a difference - you can!

Quiet Weekend

2008-01-21T21:07:00.002Z

Well - unusually for me, I had a really quiet weekend. The weather here in Bristol UK is absolutely foul. We wake up every morning to what feels like the twilight zone - constant grey, grizzly skies and non-stop rain and wind - at least it's not particularly cold. My garden's a bog though.

I saw one of my best friends for a proper girly chat yesterday afternoon and another friend in the evening.............

This morning I played tennis and I've spent most of the rest of the day parcelling up CDs for CDbaby (the other place I'll be selling the CD), sending copies to various promoters and friends.

I'm practicing hard for the 1st and in a minute will go and run through my set AGAIN in my studio.

I'm looking forward to playing some of my other songs once the gig's over ha ha!

I'm very happy that our own Wozza is coming up to Bristol for the gig - hurray!

OK that's it for now.

*heads off to studio*

Gig at The Cube - Femmes Fatales

2008-01-19T00:04:00.000Z

Just got back from a great gig at The Cube - an old arts cinema in Bristol which also hosts music gigs.

I'm not sure of the name of the first performer but after her was Bela Emerson, an amazing cello player who generates extraordinary sounds using loop and effects pedals. Following her was the amazing Emily Breeze who is a very raunchy rock musician and she did a great set despite breaking a bass string and appalling feedback - I'm half deafened and am glad I had some earplugs with me to protect my ears!!

A great night all round. Here's a link to some photos of the evening.

Gig at The Cube

Good Day

2008-01-16T23:24:00.001Z

I thoroughly enjoyed today. It was the first Songwriting Group day of 2008 after a 6 week break due to the guy who runs it having a big gig before Christmas and not being able to run it, then Christmas and New Year and last week he had a cold.

It was a big group today and high energy! Everyone was excited to see each other and hear about each other's gigs and new ideas etc.

I then had a practice with the people playing at my gigs (it's a kind of temporary band consisting of a guitarist (my producer), a keyboard player, a couple of backing vocalists and a djembe player). It went pretty well and hopefully will be fine by the 1st - we have two more practices.

Here's a copy of the new flier for the gig which the person doing the visuals for the gig designed based on my original idea. I'm hopeless at graphics but good at ideas!

After the practice, I came back here with one of the backing vocalists as I'M backing HER in a gig on the 26th playing flute and drums and we had a curry then a run through of her songs. Finished at 10pm!

No rest for the wicked - but a great way to spend a day.

Look What the Postman Brought Today

2008-01-15T19:12:00.002Z

Full Circle - Chandramoon!

Thurs/Fri

2008-01-11T22:19:00.000Z

Well....where to start! Yesterday was a very busy day, some of it too boring to bother writing about here, such as meeting a builder re the windows and a work meeting - but the evening was great. I had my first proper rehearsal with the other musicians who will play with me at the album launch gig on Feb 1st and it went pretty well! I really enjoyed it and feel that it will sound pretty good by the 1st!

Today, I played tennis for the first time this year in the "bubble", had lunch with my mum, then went to the gig venue with R who is going to do the visuals at the gig. Basically she has designed a slide show to go with each track comprising still shots and movie clips which sync up with the music. We met up with the sound man for the night to discuss the stage set up and change overs, how the visuals will work with the tracks and the sound checks etc for the various performers. We also had a look round at the venue to think about how we'll decorate the place to make it look good on the night. Then I went to a local hotel to book some rooms for people who are travelling far to come to the gig.

Unbelievably, the weather was terrible today with driving rain, wind and snow leading to local flooding and all sorts of ghastliness - at one point I was driving through a semi-blizzard virtually unheard of here.

This evening, I met up with some old friends for a drink, watched a bit of TV and am going to try and have an early night!

Tomorrow I have various chores to do, various people to contact and in the evening I'm having dinner with some friends I haven't seen for years!

Hope you have a good weekend whatever you're doing. x

Busy Day

2008-01-10T17:23:00.000Z

This is just a quick post as today I have a very, very busy schedule including:

Piano tuner coming in a minute
Board meeting of an organisation I work with
Tea with a friend
First rehearsal with other musicians for my Feb 1st gig
Friends birthday bash if the rehearsal doesn't end too late

In between all that I'm doing paperwork, trying to sort out the *&!!X@**bleeping windows at my rental property, sorting out my own house, making a zillion phone calls etc etc!!

So - bye for now folks - see you all soon x

Windows and More!

2008-01-08T15:02:00.001Z

I bet you thought I meant Microsoft Windows - no - I mean Zenith f***ing Staybrite Windows.

Last year, I had the windows at my rental property replaced throughout by the above company (who did seem pretty good though EXPENSIVE at the time).

Yesterday, one of my tenants contacted me to say their windows were looking grotty and the bay below going all black and condensation everywhere. OK, no probs thought I, they are fully guaranteed and backed by an insurance policy which (naturally grrrr) I've paid for. To cut a long story short, I phoned them today and guess what (the timing of it gnash gnash) the company went into liquidation - yes - you guessed it YESTERDAY!!!!

Aggghhhhh - these windows cost thousands and now it's in the hands of the administrators. I can't leave it like it is because it's in their bedroom so it looks like I may have to fork out for the repairs myself.

Never mind, one way or another it'll get sorted but I can't believe the timing of it.

On a much nicer note, I had lunch with my neighbour from where I used to live today, we've always kept in touch - and that was very pleasant!

Tonight, we have our first drum lesson of the new term and then I'm going to the open no-mic at The Miners Arms to sing a couple of songs - much more fun than thinking about the damn damp at the flats! Will have to get it sorted though - I've organised a builder to meet me there tomorrow.

Full Circle

2008-01-08T14:41:00.001Z

Just testing - this is one of the features of Vox that you can post and embed audio tracks. This is the title track of my album which will be ready mid-January. This track is very electronic, there are also a couple of rocky tracks and several guitarry acoustic tracks and a keyboard track. There are some tracks still on myspace but it's useful being able to post a track here too!

Full Circle - Listen

Full Circle

2008-01-08T14:41:00.000Z

Tail Feather

2008-01-06T01:06:00.000Z

Just got back from a great gig at The Prom with a brilliant live band called Tail Feather strutting their stuff. They were an EIGHT piece with drums, guitar and bass, trumpet, trombone, sax, keyboards and a great, very large female singer with a big voice to match. They were playing really old soul tracks like Heard It Through The Grapevine, Preacher Man etc and got everyone dancing their socks off. I don't usually like covers bands but they were great!

Vox

2008-01-05T14:40:00.000Z

Hi guys - I've set up another blog at Vox as it has proper comment alerts etc while Efx is down. I'll still dual post here but until Efx is sorted out you can find me at

http://chandramoon.vox.com/

Bye for now.

Hush Hush Gig in Weston

2008-01-04T13:52:00.001Z

Last night I did a solo gig in Weston (about an hour from Bristol) at the Hush Hush night at the Imperial. It went quite well for a first time, though I wasn't 100% happy with myself - but I suppose I never will be ha ha.

The other two artists were good - the first was a three piece playing original, lively ska like music, then me and finally a really young guy called Mario Ellis who is very talented.

End of an amazing year - here's to 2008

2007-12-31T12:18:00.001Z

I've had the most amazing year - too many things to list here and regular readers already know about them.

It's been a mix of tragedies and achievements, losses and gains, ups and downs.

Mostly though - it's been amazing and I feel I'm a very lucky person in this life.

In 2008 I want to continue focussing on my creative life, especially my music. I'm terrified but looking forward to my first big gig on February 1st to launch the album then I want to sell it online and get it out to people who'd like to listen to it, improve my live performance, work with new musicians, record the rest of my songs and write some more if the inspiration comes.

I'd like to do a tour round to meet as many of you as I can in "real" life at some point though that might have to be 2009!

I'm very, very lucky to be blessed with great health and tons of energy, a wonderful family and brilliant friends both on and off line.

Thanks to everyone for being there for me through thick and thin.

So here's to a great 2008 to you and yours!

Cheers! *clink clink*

Jamming

2007-12-28T18:00:00.000Z

Jamming in my living room with my good friend Alphonse today.

This evening I went to Hush Hush with my son and some friends to see DJ Derek - an old white Jamaican guy who plays mainly reggae. A good time was had by all. Just off to bed now so night night!

Boxing Day

2007-12-27T09:05:00.001Z

Hi Guys - I had a lovely Christmas with my family - good company, nice food and a chilled out time.

We played cards, chatted and watched a bit of TV which makes a change for me. We watched that old faithful film The African Queen with Katherine Hepburn and Humphrey Bogart - great stuff.

Today my nephew left and went back to London and my son arrived from London and I had open house and at least 30 friends and neighbours turned up and and came and went till latish this evening - I'm now in bed with Mac doing this quickly before crashing out - I'm quite tired now.

The place is a tip but never mind - I'll sort it all out tomorrow!

So, good night for now - hope you're all well!

Happy Christmas and Thankyou for being there!

2007-12-24T12:07:00.002Z

To all my dear blog friends

A VERY HAPPY CHRISTMAS

Whatever you're doing this holiday, whoever you spend it with, I hope you have a peaceful and happy time.

You are all very special to me and I appreciate your friendship and support more than you can imagine.

Thanks for a great year here at Efx2blogs - especially those behind the scenes who've kept it going.

Bye for now - with love Chandra

Happy Holiday - tongue in cheek

2007-12-22T11:55:00.000Z

I copied this shamelessly from someone's Myspace but couldn't resist it!

I wanted to send some sort of holiday greeting to everyone, but it is so difficult in today's world to know exactly what to say without offending someone. So I met with my lawyer yesterday, and on his advice I wish to say the following:

Please accept with no obligation,implied or implicit, my best wishes for an environmentally conscious, socially responsible, low stress, non-addictive, gender neutral celebration of the winter holiday, practiced with the most enjoyable traditions of religious persuasion or secular practices of your choice with respect for the religious/secular persuasions and/or traditions of others, or their choice not to practice religious or secular traditions at all.

I also wish you a fiscally successful, personally fulfilling and medically uncomplicated recognition of the onset of the generally accepted calendar year 2008, but not without due respect for the calendars of choice of other cultures whose contributions to society have helped make our country great (not to imply that the UK is necessarily greater than any other country) and not without regard to the race, creed, colour, age, physical ability, religious faith or sexual preference of the wishee.

By accepting this greeting, you are accepting the following terms:

This greeting is subject to clarification or withdrawal. It is freely transferable with no alteration to the original greeting. It implies no promise by the wisher to actually implement any of the wishes for her/himself or others and is void where prohibited by law, and is revocable at the sole discretion of the wisher. This wish is warranted to perform as expected within the usual application of good tidings for a period of one year or until the issuance of a subsequent holiday greeting, whichever comes first, and warranty is limited to replacement of this wish or issuance of a new wish at the sole discretion of the wisher.

Disclaimer: No trees were harmed in the sending of th

Shopping Madness

2007-12-21T18:00:00.000Z

Phew - well I survived some grocery shopping today! This morning I went to a wonderful shop we have here in Bristol called the Sweet Mart. It's an Asian shop which (as the name implies) started life as an Indian sweet shop but now sells just about everything exotic you can imagine - plantains, fresh spices, popadums, organic vegetables and bread, sauces from everywhere in the world, weird and wonderful juices, sacks of every kind of rice, beans and lentils. The very smell of the shop makes my mouth water!

I then braved the queues in Tesco (shudder) and bought the other stuff like beers, wines etc, boring things like toilet paper blah blah.

It took an hour to get out with the huge queues of people with achingly full trolleys - anyone would think we were stocking up for the end of the world not a few days' holiday. Mind you, it was the same for me as I have a house full of people arriving starting tomorrow till nearly New Year so of course much food etc IS required.

I bought all sorts of naughty yummy things I don't usually buy like cream, and cakes, and bikkies, and cakes, and puddings mmmmmm cakes!

Tonight I'm supposed to be going to an open mic night but guess what folks - f**k it - I'm going to open one of the bottles I bought, tuck into some goodies and enjoy my last quiet evening in for some time!

*cheers folks*

Poster

2007-12-19T20:05:00.001Z

Today I actually did some of the dreaded Christmas shopping - I don't know what possesses me but I just want to go home and give up before I even start!

Tonight I'm going to a Rozabella (Patrick Duff's young band)'s gig on The Thekla (floating club in Bristol).

Here's the poster for a gig I've been asked to do in Weston Super Mare on January 3rd. Three people will do a 30 minute set of original music solo each and before each person they play half an hour of songs of our choice to show what music has influenced our writing and music.

Dad and Gig!

2007-12-15T01:02:00.000Z

I've had a great couple of days. Yesterday, my dad and his a wife arrived for a night's visit and they left after lunch today. Last night, I cooked a nice veggie lasagne for them and today we had a pub lunch together. It was lovely to see them as they live quite a long way away so I don't get to seem them too often! Here's my dad playing my piano in my hallway!

This afternoon I practiced a bit for tonight's gig at the Demi Lune. I played four songs for the first time with Paddy the new guy I've got playing with me - he's very good and plays keyboards, whistles, fiddle and percussion. Today I played one song on piano with him playing whistle and then three guitar songs with him playing keyboards. It felt so different playing with someone else but it went really well for a first go and everyone seemed to enjoy it!

There are no photos of me but here are some of the other artists who played tonight:

Tomorrow, I'll do some housework, practice some more and then I'm seeing a girlfriend in the evening.

Hope you all have a great weekend!

Test

2007-11-19T22:50:00.001Z

I'm having problems with my photobucket - this is a test to see if it's a problem with them or me

Blogging

2007-11-03T09:07:00.000Z

Hello anyone who still reads here!

I'm posting nearly daily at http://chandramoon.efx2blogs.com as it's all working beautifully again.

There are post and comment alerts and a very active and friendly community (with the odd drama thrown in too).

I'm still working hard at my music and the album is nearly completed and should be available before Christmas!

Hope you're all well - see you at my main blog if you want to keep up. xx

Blogging at Efx2blogs.com

2007-09-26T18:31:00.000+01:00

Hello - now that efx2 is up and running again I'm blogging there again. There's a link to the right if you want to come and read my news and I'll keep visiting those of you who aren't at efx.

I'll double post here sometimes but it's too much effort to put posts with photos up twice so I'll be over there mostly.

I'll keep this place live as a back up though

Bye for now xxx

Quiet Sunday

2007-09-23T22:52:00.001+01:00

Well today I'm having a quiet Sunday - reading the Observer, doing a bit of housework and later popping round to visit a friend I haven't seen in a while.

I've also finished up here I think and sorted out a few links etc and updated my blog address on the various blog feeds etc. I've added my son and daughters' music and blog links etc. Hope you're all enjoying your weekends.

Gig

2007-09-22T12:21:00.000+01:00

Just got home from the cabaret gig I played at tonight. It went really well and I was very relaxed for a change so I actually really enjoyed playing. I think I played a lot better than usual which was encouraging! The other acts were good and once I'd done my set I was able to sit back and just enjoy the rest of the evening. Tomorrow I have a planning meeting for my album launch gig which I'll probably do in the new year though the album should be available this side of Christmas online. Anyway - have a great weekend. Night night xxx

Hopi Ear Candles, Visions and Fiery Hoop!

2007-09-18T18:14:00.000+01:00

Where to start? I had an amazing experience at the End of The Road Festival that I want to write about - but it’s weird! Maybe you’ll think I’ve gone mad or been on too much whacky backy but anyway………………..

Maybe I’ll start by saying I’ve remixed the new track Fiery Hoop for you to listen to on www.myspace.com/chandramoonsmusic which is a lot better than the first one. It was really hard work in the studio today as the computer kept misbehaving and it all took twice as long as it should but we got there in the end. My producer’s away for a couple of weeks now so I’m having a break from recording and going to focus on playing live as I have a couple of gigs over the next few weeks and I need to practice!

Anyway - back to the weird experience - I think I’ll write this as if it were a journey as that’s what it felt like. I’ll set the scene……. I was at the festival and there was a beautiful healing area in a field within the main site. There were many alternative practitioners doing all kinds of therapies such as Indian Head massage, Reiki, Chakra balancing (? don’t ask me?), deep tissue massage etc etc and including Hopi Ear candles. Because of all the drumming and music I listen to I suffer a bit with tinnitus and I thought the ear candles might help and I’d also been told they’re very relaxing during the treatment. He lay me on my side in the lovely tent which had Indian drapes all round, incense burning etc and placed the first candle in my left ear and lit it………………..

……….peace and quiet, the slight sound of fizzing as the flame flickered, the breeze sighing outside sounding muffled, faint tinkling of piano keys and female voices singing. My eyes are shut and I focus inside on the quiet space in my head………..and suddenly before me I see the profile of a native American Indian with two feathers pointing down at the base of his skull. Very proud he was gazing into the middle distance - a completely benign presence. The image faded and a stag materialised silhouetted against dark branches and foliage. As I watched the stag I realised I could no longer distinguish the Indian from the stag and that they had become one, waves of purple light were pulsing in my head - simply beautiful ……… my awareness came back into the tent as the first candle had burned down. I turned over for the second candle no longer expecting any further visions and at first I was aware again only of the ambient sounds in the distance - laughing voices of people passing by, the sound check on the nearest stage penetrating into my space. Then suddenly I saw the eye of the stag looking at me - and I knew that the Indian was gazing at me directly through the eye of the stag - again waves of purple light and peacefulness until the second candle had burned down………………

Of course, I told the therapist what I had experienced and amazingly it turns out he is a shamanic practitioner and his “guide” is an Indian called Two Feathers who represents the stag!! I couldn’t believe that somehow I had picked up on his energy so powerfully that it had actually manifested as a powerful and bright image!

I really can’t say what I think this was - I don’t know if I actually believe in spirit guides and that that guide somehow was communing with me or whether I psychically picked up on the image channeled through the therapist. I have no idea but it was a completely real and amazing experience which left me feeling elated and full of well-being.

I sense a song coming on from this but I don’t suppose it will make any sense to anyone ……… what do you think? Have you experienced any weird visions like this? I must ask Woman of Feathers.

Anyway - I hope you like the track - bye for now.

2007-09-17T21:59:00.000+01:00

Hi all - ok so I'm back at Efx2blogs.com and praying it stays stable.

I'm going to post in both places and keep the list of links on both sites so hopefully won't go through that awful feeling of losing touch with you guys again!

If you're back on efx2 and I haven't visited you yet please let me know your efx address so I can add you to my list over there too or let me know your blogspot/blogger address if you're not on my list here yet. Thanks.

I'm just back from a lovely festival called End of The Road and will blog about it and put some pics up soon.

Bye for now.

http://www.chandramoon.efx2blogs.com

New Efx Site

2007-09-17T15:06:00.000+01:00

Well I've had a go at setting up a new efx blog at the Wordpress thingy and so far I HATE IT!!!! Rant grrrrrr gnash of teeth. I'm sick of starting new blogs and I want my old blog back boo hoo!!!

I think I'll blog here for now as at least it's easy to use and stable but if anyone has a blog at the new efx please leave me the address. A few of you have commented over there but I can't work out how to find you there. I'm not thick - I rather pride myself on my computer knowledge but I've really run out of steam.

I want to spend time writing in my blog not starting a new one every damn day or two.

I've just got back from a lovely festival in Dorset called The End of The Road and I'll post some pics later.

I had a hopi ear candle treatment and had an amazing experience I'll write about soon.

That's all for now folks - I need to get back in a good mood before I can write everything up properly.

Fiery Hoop

2007-09-13T18:10:00.001+01:00

Well after another busy day in the studio I've managed to get a rough mix of the next (11th) track of the album for your ears only ha ha!!!! Let me know what you think - well not the mixing issues as it's only rough - but the general idea - it's quite a dancey one I think.

I'm off first thing to a festival with my kids so see you all again next week.

Looks like Efx will be back soon on Wordpress.

Bye for now xxx

Listen to Fiery Hoop

Subscribing to Your Favourite Blogs

2007-09-13T10:36:00.001+01:00

Hi - someone kindly pointed me in the direction of Bloglines where you can easily subscribe to your favourite blogs. Not quite as easy as efx but it does work xx

Rhymester

2007-09-13T09:08:00.001+01:00

Hi - just a line to say I've set up a link to Rhymester so go and say hello to him if you want to encourage him to stick up his poems etc! See Links to right....

Songwriting Group

2007-09-12T22:55:00.000+01:00

Today was my usual Wednesday songwriting group which went well. In the morning we go round the group and spend about 5 minutes each talking about our week musically/creatively speaking. You learn a lot sharing and listening to what other people go through in the process of songwriting and producing.

Then you play a song or read lyrics etc once each before lunch and in the afternoon there's another round of songs. Today there was a puppeteer at the group - we've had magicians and dancers, poets and rappers - all sorts. You also get a chance to hear about each other's gigs and collaborate on each others' projects. I've been invited to play a couple of songs at a gig in Bristol on Sep 21st and I was able to invite people to play at a Bristol street party where I'm playing in October.

I've also found someone to help me organise the gig/launch party for my album which is a HUGE relief - it's just all too much for me to do on my own!

This evening a good girl friend of mine came round and tomorrow I'm off to the studio to finish off Fiery Hoop then only one more track to go before we do the mastering of all 12 tracks. It's so exciting but scary at the same time. I've been working on this pretty much full time since March.

It feels weird blogging here - like I'm not in my proper home but at least a lot of my blog friends seem to be in touch here. Does anyone know how to contact Legs or Rubicon?

Anyway - I'm going to try and get to sleep before 2am tonight - I'm so tired from lack of sleep that my eyes actually feel physically peculiar.

Night folks xx

Studio and General Musings

2007-09-12T00:10:00.000+01:00

Today was manic. I was up till 2am fiddling about here and trying to find you all and get this wretched place sorted out. I don't like not having alerts, I hate not knowing who's visited or whether friends have posted. I really haven't got time to go and check everyone every day - the alerts were so brilliant. Having said that I'm so glad I can at least keep in touch this way but I so hope Keith can get efx up again. Does anyone know how to contact him?

The studio session went well today. We're working on a song I wrote called Fiery Hoop - oh of course you haven't got my lyric pages now either grrrrrrr so excuse me while I go and find them somewhere else grrrrrrr.........

.....ok I'm back - here are the lyrics to the next song which is drum and bass styley!!

The Fiery Hoop

I feel the fear, I’m terrified
Can hardly turn a page.
My heart stands still, it’s petrified
Can’t walk out on the stage.
I wanna jump onto a moving train,
Turn the handle walk through the door,
Dance naked in the pouring rain,
Do something never done before

Break this endless loop
Break this endless loop
Break this endless loop
Break this endless loop

I’ve been let down, I’m all alone,
No-one understands,
I sit all day by the telephone
Staring at my own hands.
Every minute feels like an hour,
Every hour feels like a day,
All the good things have turned sour,
I wannna throw it all away

Break this endless loop
Break this endless loop
Break this endless loop
Break this endless loop

The world’s at war, full of hate,
No-one knows right from wrong.
It looks as though it’s way too late -
The trouble’s gone on too long.
I believe that we can’t change a thing
If we're feeling disempowered.
I know we need to grow new wings
Rise from our darkest hour...

Take a leap of faith
Through the fiery hoop,
Take a leap of faith
Through the fiery hoop.

I feel the fear, I’m terrified
Can hardly turn a page.
My heart stands still, it’s petrified
Can’t walk out on the stage.
I believe that we can’t change a thing
If we're feeling disempowered.
I know we need to grow new wings
To rise from our darkest hour...

Take a leap of faith
Through the fiery hoop
Take a leap of faith
Through the fiery hoop
Through the fiery hoop
Through the fiery hoop........(fade)

© Chandramoon Dec 2004

Dyrham Park Part 2

2007-09-11T09:09:00.000+01:00

Thought I'd try the Blogspot video link thingy - here is a short video clip from yesterday!

Enjoy

More photos

Dyrham House

2007-09-10T23:13:00.000+01:00

I had a great weekend in Salisbury drumming with master drummer Seckou Keita. He taught us a really difficult but brilliant rhythm called Konkonda or something like that!

On the way home today I visited the National Trust property Dyrham House which was beautiful here are some photographs

Facebook Photos of Dyrham Park

I haven't worked out how to make this place look nice and I'm fed up having to start again so hopefully Efx will be up again soon.

xxx bye for now.

Took this photo today so I'm testing if I can post it ok here!

Calling All Efxers!!

2007-09-10T21:47:00.000+01:00

Hi please can any of you from Efx that aren't yet on my list of links who'd like to be added please comment here as I'm trying to track you all down - I don't want to lose touch with my Efx family PLEASE xx

Efx down

2007-09-10T18:31:00.000+01:00

Well I didn't think I'd need to blog here but here I am for now anyway - came back from a great weekend to find efx down. What a bummer I don't want to start from scratch again.

Still Blogging at Efx2

2007-01-07T19:27:00.000Z

This is just a back up account - I'm still blogging regularly at http://chandramoon.efx2.com

Gambia and blogging

2006-03-19T16:06:00.000Z

Hi anyone who drops by here. I've been in the Gambia and posted some great pics on my main blog http://chandramoon.efx2.com

Enjoy

A Strip a Day

2006-02-18T13:21:00.000Z

A Strip a Day

What a great blog a stumbled across today - really made me laugh and a great idea!

Given up on Modblog for Now

2006-02-05T23:24:00.000Z

I've given up on modblog - this is my new main blog server. So far so good.

http://blog.efx2.com/user/Chandramoon

Long time no blog

2005-12-07T23:19:00.000Z

Still blogging at Modblog now that it's back on line thankfully. It's still my favourite blogging spot. I can't get the same feeling from the others. http://chandramoon.modblog.com

Wednesday

2005-10-12T23:44:00.000+01:00

so far Modblog is still working so this is just a quick entry. Modblog is great and so friendly but the downtime and glitches are terrible - no images at the moment which is a pain bearing in mind my site is for photography and painting! Today is my son's 30th birthday which is great but makes me feel old although I only feel 30 myself!

bye for now

Self-portrait

2005-10-11T18:00:00.000+01:00

Back Up Blog

2005-10-11T17:16:00.000+01:00

This is a short post to see how I like Blogger as I already have a blog and Modblog which keeps going down recently.

Chandra Moon's Blog

Happy New Year 2011

Vox Blog gone

Still Blogging at Efx3 and Vox

New Blog

Play it With Passion

Please, Please do me a big favour!

Efx Blog

Blogs

Back from the Gambia

"Knowledge" Birthday

A Zillion Things

Watershed Drumming

Dumming at The Watershed

Chandramoon's Monday Blog No 1

Windy

Shadow Puppets

Earthquake

Fleece and Firkin

Monday

Quickie

Friendship

New Song - No Friend Of Mine

Strange Week

Album Launch Party

Blog Holiday

Weekend So Far

Gigs and Practice

I need a dream by Malusi

Quote For My Life

Quiet Weekend

Gig at The Cube - Femmes Fatales

Good Day

Look What the Postman Brought Today

Thurs/Fri

Busy Day

Windows and More!

Full Circle

Full Circle

Tail Feather

Vox

Hush Hush Gig in Weston

End of an amazing year - here's to 2008

Jamming

Boxing Day

Happy Christmas and Thankyou for being there!

Happy Holiday - *tongue in cheek*

Shopping Madness

Poster

Dad and Gig!

Test

Blogging

Blogging at Efx2blogs.com

Quiet Sunday

Gig

Hopi Ear Candles, Visions and Fiery Hoop!

New Efx Site

Fiery Hoop

Subscribing to Your Favourite Blogs

Rhymester

Songwriting Group

Studio and General Musings

Dyrham Park Part 2

Dyrham House

Calling All Efxers!!

Efx down

Still Blogging at Efx2

Gambia and blogging

A Strip a Day

Given up on Modblog for Now

Long time no blog

Wednesday

Self-portrait

Back Up Blog

Happy Holiday - tongue in cheek