Creative Independence Day! We should eat cake or crow?

Today is the 4th of July and it’s Creative Independence Day again. Some would like to eat cake. Some would like to offer crow. But we won’t crow until we eat cake! So, as America celebrates her independence we will share in that celebration with her and do a little clock turning. Read more

Apologies for Duplicate Postings

Since upgrading to the new version of WordPress late last month, we have been experiencing some technical glitches resulting in the re-publication of previously published articles. This is most annoying when you’re learning a new interface. Apparently there is “something screwy in the date-a-base.”

Our apologies for any inconvenience, we are looking into why this is occurring, while we’re in the middle of a reorganization, and hope to have it resolved in the next week or two. In the meantime, we trust you’ll continue to enjoy a fresh new series of articles from Branwen, Doc Don Sturgiss, Marie, NDK and other contributors and editors.

Of course if you’re not at all inconvenienced and love reading our posts over again then don’t forget that you don’t have to wait until “we republish” you can access the archives (see the side bar), or use the search function (top of the page) to find something you’d like to read again.

Allforart’s Cornucopia Daze - 21 December a Creative Season Day to Remember

Yesterday was one of those cornucopia days at Allforart. A day where so much happens it seems as if a week just passed within the last 24 hours.

These are the sort of abundant days that we are working towards making happen every day, for at Allforart we think life and living should be filled with an abundance of good - productive and constructive - life-affirming things and events. But also because we like the notion that the worthy things artists wish for in their careers and life is what we help them achieve in ways small and large.

That’s what the cornucopia, the Horn of Plenty is all about. Boy, we have got plenty going on at Allforart!

Truly the 21st of December 2007 reflected the Creative Season we are enjoying, and creating daily. Here’s what happened, and a preview of what’s coming: Read more

Midnight.Haulkerton’s Violence of the Soul album is going to Slay Demons!

I’m listening to a fresh demo of Joel Falconer and Greg Cameron’s song for Midnight.Haulkerton’s forthcoming album Violence of the Soul (VotS), a project I’ve been intimately associated with for some time as we worked to develop repertoire, form the band, get all the business in order and deal with the vicissitudes of life, that tear the soul and urge it this way and that.

The track is Forget and it’s a great personal statement that is right on theme, right on track and utterly authentic. Yesterday, 26 November, 2007, Joel was telling me how much Greg likes to rock and just loves music. Well, he’s right, and you can tell. The guitaring on this track just blows your head off and you right out of it. I don’t think I’ll move back in now I’ve been liberated from my skull. Thanks, Greg! I never needed that container anyway.

Falconer delivers a powerful vocal that rocks out and grabs your whole body and chills it with thrills that are unnerving and delicious. It’s like great sex, only…better! Have I had great sex? Sure! I’m not a real donkey lover, yah know. Just a pretend one! (That’s an inside joke Joel may let you in on some day and has to do with the hidden history of the Lascaux Caves. Don’t ask. The Order will want my entrails.)

Two verses take us into a chorus where Falconer shows his talent for long line delivery that never ceases to amaze me. He’s got that Sinatra phrasing knack, that was once so unique. But he’s not a crooner, nothing soft about Falconer, he’s a hard man with voice that’ll scrape your soul raw.

The bridge is a sweet drop into a trippy taste of etherealism, Midnight.Haulkerton style.

VotS is an album that addresses the way the world–our experience of society and civilization–rips at our lives. It’s the first in a series of planned albums from Midnight.Haulkerton.

I can’t wait till these guys are in the studio recording this album! (2008, all going well) When Falconer is in deep throat there is nothing quite so orgasmic. Midnight.Haulkerton has got one of those sounds that pumps your blood up and gets you ready and roaring to tackle the world.

Slay Demons, yes, Midnight.Haulkerton could do this with a single well-placed chord, but as Joel said, “It’s not the demons we want to slay - it’s the angels.”

Yeah, not too keen on the cherubs myself, mate.

IR2F so easily but I will have a hard job forgetting the first time I heard Forget.

This was just a demo!