Hello! Welcome to this latest little vehicle to help keep you up to date with what's happening in Edgy-world! Blogging is a new experience for me, and I'm suffering a little uncertainty as to where to pitch this first effort. I guess you're aware from our website what's currently 'hot off the press', so instead of weighing you down with more marketing nonsense, I thought it would be a nicer experience to share with you some of the lighter moments of my working day.
Although it's the end-of-year/leavers' musicals that are currently flying off the shelves, all creative efforts are now turned to our 2012 Christmas releases. As I'm sitting in my cosy studio at the bottom of the garden, adding finishing touches to our latest set of seasonal songs, I'm looking out at a newly-turfed lawn, thankful for the torrential downpour that seems to be breathing life into grass which, because of Anglian Water's hosepipe ban, has been denied nourishment for nearly a fortnight!
Well, it seems the benefit of heavy rain is two-fold. Not only are my frustrations horticultural, they are musical too. I'm forever in search of interesting hi-hat patterns to add to drum tracks when recording, and have spent most of this morning dissatisfied with what I've come up with. Inspiration, however, has been literally heaven-sent. As rain turns to hail, the drumming on my studio window provides me with the perfect syncopated, swung-quaver pattern with which to embellish the song! The spirit of Keith Moon presents itself at the most opportune moments!
So, in the slightly mis-quoted words of those gloriously camp divas, the Weathergirls, 'God bless Mother Nature, she re-arranged the sky, so that each and every writer can find the perfect.....beat!" Hmmm, that one's definitely a 'work in progress'!
Andrew.
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