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.

http://www.newburytoday.co.uk/News/Article.aspx?articleID=9841

The festival management team which includes former Snooty Fox events manager Matt Sutton and Pig and Paper owner Martin Kavanagh (2 of Newbury’s leading live music venues) are currently working hard to secure an event license.

There has been a huge interest from the facebook and myspace communities and over 150 bands/artists are interested in playing at the event.  Whilst I would love to add us to that list, I think the other band members would prefer to get a couple of smaller gigs under our belt before we rocked such a large audience.

For more information be sure to check out the official site:

http://www.newfest.org.uk/

V.i.Ps Bar Rumba, Fri 10th April

V.i.Ps Bar Rumba, Fri 10th April

Also someone present also had a video camera and managed to capture a couple of songs.

Happen:

Crash And Burn:

If you’d like to hear more about The V.i.Ps check out their myspace page The V.i.Ps

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).

The V.i.Ps

10/04/2009 19:45 at Dead or Alive @ Bar Rhumba
36 Shaftesbury Avenue, London, W1D 7EP
Cost: £6 (£5 with flyer)

Check out their stuff on Myspace

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.