Time keeps on slipping...

While I don't exactly live my life by Steve Millerisms, I must say, time does seem to be slipping...slipping...slipping into the future these days. This of course means that I am forever stuck with "Fly Like An Eagle" in my head. Hmmmm.

I've been meaning to blog more frequently but I get so busy with other things. One of the contributing factors to my general busy-ness, is that I've been updating my Sirens of Sydney network myspace page (www.myspace.com/sirensofsydney) which is taking a lot out of me! I know it will be worth the effort one day so I keep on plugging away at it.

Hence, I've been so busy with that, that I have been extremely slack in working on my album this month. Seriously, I need an assistant.

Sigh.

So, sad to report that there's no album progress for the past few weeks.

ALTHOUGH. Last night, when I finally did have a few moments spare to fiddle around with stuff I discovered that my mic setup has decided to stop working. This is my new mic setup, which originated from an old reliable setup which has now become dodgy, so even though it was much better than my last setup for the EP, it was very hit and miss. It was the last straw last night discovering that my mic input didn't work (I know, it's just a simple matter of taking it to an electronics whiz and getting some circuits soldered) but that in itself will cost at least $100 so I've decided to bite the bullet and buy myself a whole new reliable setup - which I've done today and pick it up on Friday. How exciting! It's something I've been looking into for a while and now I've done it.

I think not having a reliable mic setup was a big reason behind my album procrastination.

You never quite know how a new piece of technology will work, whether it will deliver the result you want. I hope my new mic things are what I'm after....

Anne-Lise

Gimme the honky tonk blues

Well, it ain't quite the blues, but "A Little Dissonance" is shaping up to be the modern slightly warped take on the saloon show tune I'd hoped it would be.

A little Dissonance is a number inspired by the from the honky tonk tunes of the wild west 1800s, it's still got that feel of show girls and frilly petticoats and lace up grandma boots. In my mind's film clip, instead of the show girls, I imagine a chorus line of (ummm, heterosexual) men in the form of someone like Antonio Sabato Jnr walking around me while I sing this on stage, but alas, I only have ears for music.

My lyrics of this song are filled with sexual angst...of course, a man could never live up to the thrill music gives me. Well, maybe one or two have... ;)

Anne-Lise