The things you find when you go rooting through computer folders.
This was, of course, a play on the Motörhead album Bomber, and the fact that Lemmy had a similar ‘tash.
Bombur
Month: June 2020
Lamb of God in quarantine
One of my favourite bands, Lamb of God’s latest, self-titled, album dropped on Friday. It’s good.
Here are some songs the band have recorded remotely in quarantine. “Checkmate” (track 1) and “New Colossal Hate” (track 3) from Lamb of God (2020), and “Laid To Rest” from Ashes of the Wake (2004).
Shenandoah by NYCGB Alumni lockdown virtual choir
Over the last two months, I have been involved in a project with the NYCGB Alumni to record one of our favourite pieces, the American folk song “Shenandoah” arranged by James Erb.
We asked 404 (or so) singers to video their part of the piece, singing along to a backing track created by the tremendous Will Dawes. Then we had a technical team piece it all together, Ben worked on the audio, Tom on the video.
We thought we started this because we wanted to have some fun. We thought that we could possibly use it as a fundraiser or to encourage more people to take up singing but then we realised:
• We did it because we love singing.
• We did it because we love our alumni family.
• We did it because we love this piece of music.
I hope you love it too.
Feel free to share it far and wide.
Walking through Brixton at night
I’ve missed a few Throwback Thursday posts over the last few weeks because of … reasons. This is one that I’ve had in draft form for a while.
It involves a visit to London and a surprising encounter with a stranger at night in Brixton.
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