I'm Neil and this is a wee website to gather together some of the various creative projects I've done over the years. Partly it's an archive and partly it's a live works-in-progress type blog thingy.
Oh, and in case you're wondering, the title is a Mackem / Pitmatic rendering of "home-made in Sunderland"
It's a good few years since I've done any web-coding and I'm very rusty so it's likely to take a while to get this all sorted out. Plus there's quite a lot of material to be added, so please bear with 's....
15/9/26:- Nearly there!
This past week has been pretty damn productive on the music front: 5 new songs written, bringing the total up to 10. The latest of these was written last night in slightly over three hours, starting from just a few lines of lyrics: in those three hours I finished the lyrics, recorded vocals and made the instrumental from scratch. Feels like it's been a hell of a long time since I wrote a song that fast. Of the others I finished, one was also written from scratch, two from just single-instrument 4-bar loops (a bassline and a synth riff respectively) and one from a half-finished earlier version of a different song. All told, I reckon the album is now about 85% complete. I still need to write lyrics on the same song I've been stuck on for ages (called "Ah Boy" - the half-finished early version I just mentioned was originally an instrumental for this track). I also need to write the closing track; I have a rough idea of what it is meant to be, but I've done nothing for it yet. I've also been trying to figure out what I'm going to do for cover art and project title - the album itself is called 45; I'm thinking I might actually just put it out under my own name, rather than a pseudonym. I haven't done that before, but it feels like it might be appropriate here. Anyway, I'm kind of buzzing about this record. :-)