The first is titled “Mechanical Butterfly” and its kind of got that epic feel about it.  There are a few minor fuckups, including myself but thats mainly because there are a few points at which I completely adlib.

Mechanical Butterfly by Happiness@Gunpoint from Gary Black on Vimeo.

Happiness@Gunpoint playing “Mechanical Butterfly” at their rehearsal at Studio 91 on April 23rd 2009

The second is called “Aisle 6″ and the idea for this song came whilst we were on a break thinking of ideas, when I happened to say “We need a hook” and Sian replied “They’re down aisle 6….”  Its truely strange where some song ideas come from.  This song is a little difficult to make out because of the poor sound quality of my camcorder and the loudness of the cymbals.

Aisle 6 by Happiness@Gunpoint from Gary Black on Vimeo.

“Aisle 6″ written and performed by Happiness@Gunpoint
Video recorded on 23rd April 2009 whilst rehearsing at Studio 91.

Neither of these songs has a real ending, which just kinda stop and make up the ending each time

Please have a watch/listen and let us know any feedback that you may have.

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.

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)

Unfortuantly due to other commitments we were not able to all get together and practice last week but this week should more than make up for it as Ben has gone a purchased himself a nice new axe.  He is now the proud owner of an Epiphone Les Paul Custom.

Epiphone Les Paul Custom

I’ve not heard it yet but I’m assured its amazing and lets face it, its got to be better than the Ibanez he was playing before

Also watch this space as fingers crossed we will be going into Studio 91 in the very near future to record our very first demo (With a proper studio tech).

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.

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.

I believe this to be down to the fact that I mixed the tracks with some crappy speakers that are connected to my computer.  When listening back to the tracks via these speakers they sound absolutely fine, but obviously the speakers are colouring the audio a little too much.

Looks like I may have to invest in some monitor speakers, as these give a complete linear response. Cheaper the better obviously so if anyone finds any let me know, otherwise I’ll probably get these

http://www.dv247.com/invt/23854/

Can’t Stop Me

Guardian Angel

Have a listen and let us know what you guys think.

Also I’ve managed to get some more photograph’s from our man FlipFlop and these have also been placed in the Media page.

Eye’s front guys…. not on your damn fretboards!

Eye’s front guys…. not on your damn fretboards!

Shaun which has vocals now

Farewell To Innocance

Gone Away (Offspring Cover)

I’m still working on getting the vocals recorded for the others but I’ll repost when they are done.  Please remember these are infact live recordings of a practice session so they contain any number of mistakes and fuck ups!

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

1.  we have a reference point
2.  so we could upload something here that doesn’t sound like complete wank.

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.