If you haven’t already noticed we’ve moved!
Thats right take a look at your address bar it should now read www.happinessatgunpoint.co.uk.
This will be our new home from now on and its a little easier to type than that long old thing we had before, so please update any bookmarks you may have had and continue to use this new address.
We’ve all been there right, you go to your CD/mp3 library to pick something to listen to and you realise you’ve listened to them all a million times already and you really fancy finding something new to listen to.
If like me you and your friends/band members all have similar tastes in music and your cd/mp3 collection is so similar they could be called twins so their no help to you. I suppose you could listen to the radio but that doesn’t help you find some of the great bands that are not so radio friendly.
Luckily your not alone some others marek gibney faced a similar problem and came up with Gnoosic.
Gnoosic
It’s a simple concept really you provide the site with 3 bands that you already know and like and it will go through and suggest other bands that you may like, and then for each one you select whether you like, dislike or do not know them. Then when you’ve done this for all the suggestions you are taken to a summary so that you can research the suggested bands.
The greatest strength of this system is that the more people that use it, the more accurate it becomes as it begins to build relationships between the suggested bands and whether people like or dislike them, essentially learning from peoples tastes.
The system has also been employed for books (Gnooks) and movies (Gnovies)
Ok I think I’ve finally settled on the design for the website, after coming up with a new band logo the whole thing needed redoing.
So hopefully you’ll see the nice spanking design with the funky handwritten titles etc. This are not images they are flash files that are generated on the fly using javascript. If anyone is interested in doing this I suggest you look at sIFR (Scalable Inman Flash Replacement) it really is fantastic.
So apart from small updates to the layout every now and then this should be it, please let me know if you have any issues with any parts of the site.
Ok people I’ve been working on getting us some kind of logo, so if anyone has any ideas please let me know.
So far what I’ve come up with looks like this…..
Happiness@Gunpoint Logo Idea
Let me know what you think guys, good or bad. At the least give me some ideas for improvements.
Last night Happiness@Gunpoint descended on Studio 91 as they do every Thursday evening to have 3 hours of fun packed rehearsal time. Only this time there was a difference!
Whilst we work out the time and money required to get Jordan to lay down some pro tracks we thought we’d take our old recording gear up there so
Last night we managed to get some rough and ready recordings of Gone Away, Farewell To Innocence, Shaun, Guardian Angel, and Can’t Stop Me. We would have had the funky version of Gone Away but Steven didn’t shut down the mixer correctly and it has been lost to the ether.So now I have to sit here get it all off the mixer and mix it down as best of possible. I’ll post back once its complete.