(Warning! Video post of me dancing in my studio, wired at 4am)

I had coffee and cake for dinner, why ? because I can’t deal with the summer disappearing and caffeine is the only remedy.

I’m fortunate/unfortunate to have an amazing coffee place round by my house.  A group of very kind Ozzies run the joint and keep it stocked with high quality blends and amazing cakes (see photo of morning ritual on the right)

For dinner, not so good, but it did kick start a demo I began working on yesterday.  I still don’t know what will become of it, but at least it’s at the point where I can pull a few moves (yes, dancing in my home studio, late at night, I’d hope we all admit to doing that)

Forgive the low light and stubble, its late…I haven’t shaved in a week.

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Del

Something Old – LAST – Nine Inch Nails

I’m not saying what he’s doing now isn’t good. Someone is certainly enjoying it, somewhere.  This is my favorite track off of Broken, that wall of guitars is like a tsunami.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXc6cdK-9Sw

Something New : Nothin’ But Love – W.H.

Honestly, I’m just in a mood to hear Pop songs lately.  The 2cnd song off of Whitney Houston’s new album (yes, Whitney Houston) a fine specimen of R&B.  Don’t judge, in fact, that’s what the song is about.  Just get through the chorus for me (and those backing vocals!).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLtWVgtOwMA

I’ve never kept a blog before. I don’t twitter, and I’m sh*te at keeping up my personal web pages; Myspace, Facebook, etc. Too much information, too much being shared and not enough mystery. If I truly knew the artists who made the music I loved, I would probably love it less. I’ve met some heroes in my short pop career, but mostly I prefer to know them by the songs they sing, and not by their up-close faces, offstage drama or everyday realness.

But here goes…

I have spent the past year cultivating a project that is very close to my heart, and for that reason it is impossible not to take things personally. The low blows are especially low and the highs, thrilling.

In Scissor Sisters, I can keep things at a distance, my offstage personality is a world away from my everyday one. Creating a stage personae was organic, the person onstage is still very much me, but someone who would otherwise be too bold in everyday life to fit in, you are allowed so much more liberties as a performer, and it is an amazing rush.

So now that I have to get people up to date on what I’ve been doing , solo-wise, it’s important for me to make the distinction between these two musical beings. My output as a solo artist is through an independent label set up by my friends and I (Embryoroom). There isn’t one element that isn’t handled personally to completion by our small group of three people; artwork, video, production, and to a degree management and promotion.

Why contribute more audio noise to an already saturated world ? Cause this project is goddamn important and needs to be heard, that’s why.

More soon.

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Del

Hey Pepsimaxcasters… It’s been a blinding few weeks indeed. We have had some truly brilliant gigs – Leeds on Monday was mental… we had the Sheffield Wednesday firm in and it went off!!

And the The London Forum last Thurs was totally insane!! It was packed, the crowd knew every single word to every song and  everyone was jumping about and going crazy- at one point I thought the balcony was going to come down! We then went on and partied till the small hours in Camden… I didn’t feel to clever in the morning though!

I also wanna say a big thank you to the Pepsi Max comp winners for coming down and saying  hello – top geezers! Anyway just thought you’d like a sneak peek at one of our soundchecks. This is me doing “The Drugs Don’t Work” by The Verve – one of my favourite bands. Liam, Andy and I like to take it in turns to choose a song to cover to keep sounchecks fun! Enjoy… TC.