9 out of 10 ain’t bad

So 9 tracks are pretty much done out of the 10 I’d started, and I haven’t quite given up on the last one anyway (the middle bit is great, it’s just the rest of it doesn’t sound like anything else on the album and is possibly a little bit shit). I shall be carrying on writing obviously, but for now great minds have been stirred into thinking about exposing it to the public at large, and that is an exciting distraction. Continue reading

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NEW MUSIC DIRECT FROM THE MINT ROYALE STUDIO – AND GUESS THE REMIX

As you can see, team Mint Royale have been working very very hard. So hard in fact that there is finally something to show for it all and I’ve been able to send music to people today (whoop whoop). Five children (sorry, tracks) have been sort of finished. They are currently entitled GTFU, Buzz, Pino, Whip and Yung, and I thought it would be nice to put a few snippets up on Soundcloud for you to hear. Continue reading

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AND IT BEGINS – MINT ROYALE RETURNS

Hello new Mint Royale website! I say new, but there hasn’t actually been a website for ages. Myspace was good enough the last time Mint Royale released a record, how times have changed…

So here is the ‘new’ website. I will try and make it worth visiting with things to hear and see and read when I have created them, and tell you about it via Twitter and Facebook. For starters I’ve laboriously (and I really mean that) updated most of the old videos from their tiny screen pixellated form into big screen wonders. I’m not going to claim they are HD as HD didn’t exist when most of them were made. Some weren’t even widescreen – fancy that! – although they are now via some ruthless letterboxing. You can find them on the LOOK page.

I’ve also started a blog charting my progress with (drum roll……) a new album which is some way down the line and will probably get finished quicker if I blog about it and make myself feel guilty at any obvious lack of progress. I might chuck up bits of music as I go along, or I may not, we’ll see. It’s first instalment is up at SLOG.

So yes, a new album. For 2012. That’s a whole new album. Next year.

SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN

Rubbish, dancing. As Sony and YouTube usefully deem this video blocked for the entire world at the moment I’ve had to use the Myspace player in this post, which due to Myspace’s general crapness may not show up on mobile things. If that is the case, it can also be found in a much more mobile friendly version over on Vimeo here

BLUE SONG

Yes, that is Noel Fielding and Julian Barratt from The Mighty Boosh, and Nick Frost from Spaced, Shaun Of The Dead and Hot Fuzz, and Michael ‘Tyres’ Smiley from Spaced. And it was directed by Edgar Wright.