Rainhat – the band

A Lovely Award

Blog memes are a viral game where you generate links and relationships by asking other bloggers  to participate. Awards are one kind of memes, and Timethief at This time this space selected my Rainhat blog for this One Lovely Blog Award.

Here are the rules of the “One Lovely Blog Award”:

1.  Accept the award.
2.  Post it (the image) on your blog together with the name of the person who has granted the award, and his or her blog link.
3.  Pass the award to other blogs that you’ve newly discovered. Remember to contact the bloggers to let them know they have been chosen for this award.

1. Baxter – The Celtic Music Fan. Excellent blog with articles and interviews with bands and musicians, focusing on music from Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Cornwall, Isle of Man, Brittany and Galicia.

2. Mark – Guitar Tutorials Now. Like the name says, guitar tutorials and articles about guitars and guitar playing. Great place for any guitarist!

3. Melinda – The Melindaville Blog. The fascinating life story of a woman who has experienced more than most people do in a lifetime.

4. Mel – The Not-Pop Jukebox. A treasure chest of fun and interesting music that you may have forgotten, or never even heard of.

5. The unknown author – Active Leisure. Humor and sharp observations about unemployment. Always an entertaining read.

6. Claire – A little piece of me. An interesting blog about life, family and counselling by a counselor in training.

The untimely death of eggs – part 5

The untimely death of eggs - part 5

A real pain in the neck

I’m running late in pretty much everything at the moment, and it bugs me. I had planned on being done with recording my collection of songs by now, but alas, this is not the case. I’ve had some problems with a stubborn pain in the neck for the last couple of days, literally speaking. The back of my neck and my left shoulder have been bothering me, and I don’t know why. Bad pillow perhaps? No clue. I just woke up one day and it was hurting. It’s pretty much gone now, though, so I spent a chunk of time recording today.

Another annoying thing is that I keep noticing problems with the songs that I already recorded. I was listening to Nostalgia the other day, and noticed that the instruments are all out of tune. The guitars sound horrible together. I had planned on re-recording only the vocals, but I found that it’s pretty hard to sing in tune when the accompaniment is out of tune. But why? Why, oh why does it sound out of tune now? It sounded fine when I recorded the song in the first place. I know my ears haven’t gone mad, so my only conclusion is that the change of headphones and room to record in really made that much of a difference. Anyway, I just can’t leave the song all out of tune and crappy like that, so I’m going to re-record most of the instruments too.

After that I’m going to re-do Tomorrow, which I’m also not happy with, and then finally record the last song.