17-07-2009

This website has lain dormant for a while. It's pretty unwieldy at the moment, and it needs to be simplified. Apart from that, some of the ideas I had on it were also a bit unwieldy, and I've had a change of heart about some of it.  So I'm doing a little bit of work on it. Please bear with me if links are broken, etc. as I'm trying to inexpertly fumble through it, getting rid of pages, merging pages together and whatnot.

One of the big things I've decided on is to stop treating all my ukulele projects quite so seperately, boxing them up neatly in their own little cubbyholes. There are only really two sides to it: The Re-entrants, which is the stuff I regularly (very regularly) gig, which has CDs out and merchandise and all that businessy shizzle, and all the other stuff, which I don't really gig, which I don't really sell, which I do purely for pleasure only, without any of the commercial shebang. I'm not saying I don't love the Re-entrants; I'm saying that there is an element of that which serves an audience first. Everything else I do on the uke is pure self-indulgence.

So, from now on I'm going to stop referring to them as 'projects,' as that suggests they have pretensions towards being artistic or commercial.  I don't expect any of them to make money or reputation. 

Except the Re-entrants; if that makes nothing I'll end up having to get a proper job.

If I gig the other stuff, it'll be entirely for fun. They aren't 'side-projects;' they're just a laugh.

If I did do a 'side-project,' it would have as coherent a central idea as the Re-entrants, and wouldn't be a ragbag of other covers, dirty ditties, pseudo-political rants and old Tin Pan Alley songs.

Those are things I play purely for my own pleasure, with no consideration to how they'll go down with an audience.

And I'm not attempting to sell them anymore either. They're givaways. If you want 'em. (mind you, if enough people do want them...)