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So he's joined the group of band members from the 90s who got pretty buff in their middle age, it seems. Is this a thing?

You are indeed thinking of the right band! I did a few things as promo for the Roots album, where the intention was to give away a free copy of the album, but due to some personal issues it kept getting delayed and delayed and I suddenly found myself in a position where I didn't really WANT to release that kind of stuff anymore. Sorry, I didn't realise anyone was keeping tabs on it! I think most of the solo entries are up on the Soundcloud page to enjoy. I do like doing the little solo competition things so I might even do one for the album because I like seeing people's interpretation of the backing tracks

https://soundcloud.com/flying-machine

Yeah, I mean I AM planning on breaking it into chapters or sections or whatever, but I think at the moment I'm against the idea of making those different tracks on the album. I think it might be a super duper self-indulgent thing of wanting the actual file to have a big intimidating number when it plays in an MP3 player or whatever. But what is prog, if not self indulgent? Hm. It's a head scratcher. Quite a way off having it done, anyway, but it's some food for thought. It depends how people actually listen to music these days. Cds in a car or MP3s or so on.

So Flying Machine has been doing a thing recently. And it wasn't long into the thing-doing that I decided that I'd set some rules for myself very early on in the process, and I remembered that one of the First things I decided about Worlds Apart was that I wanted it to be longer than Dream Theater's A Change Of Seasons (23 minutes). In the end I ended up with a rather lovely 26 minute affair that I was super happy with and now my scope has taken on new heights. The new album is currently planned to consist of a single 1 hour long song. Or piece of music maybe, it can scarcely be called a song.

My question to you then, Frost*ies, is:

Do you thing anyone would listen to it if it were an hour long?

My argument is that I'm really not writing it to be consumed by anyone else, and I really think I'd rather have a single dirty great 1 hour long thing than splitting it into separate tracks, because then it's no  different from any other album where the songs go into each other. But my drummer is insisting that it's a thoroughly terrible idea.

Opinions?

Has anyone seen the new page that's up on http://www.planetfrost.com/? Very odd indeed.

Ohohohooo good lord. This is a beautiful thing. Makes me so happy that it's still working. The drum machine one. I can't even.

Voooooted. Quite a list there! Good to see Gavin Harrison is on there, too. Some of my favourite drums of all time came from that man.

Also, Craig Blundell (Steven Wilson)? Surely the Frost* hasn't been ignored?

Strong knowledge! Very impressed. I don't think I could tell most pubs from the seating arrangements supplied within.

Are you based in the North as well? We need to organise some kind of prog revolution to get them to leave London...

That is some Class A wordplay, there.

I recently rediscovered Tinyfish's first album. It had been hiding on a shelf, and now it lives in my car and gets played all the time. A much happier life for the CD. It's SO GOOD.

Recognised the seats?

Do you mean you know the pub?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBvsP516eG8

So there's a Huddersfield based company called Rattle and Thud that do music videos and they asked me to do one (do a video, not just to do one.), so I wrote a song just for them and performed it on a video. With a guitar and everyfink. I'm buzzing super hard, you guys

Or at least we've recovered the wings from where they dropped off and we're slowly trying to work out which ends to glue them on to...

Writing some new proggy epic stuff and hopefully it'll be a proper release. Hoping to do a bit of vlogging for it as well Frost* report style, or at least using the soundcloud as a blog of how it's all going. The first teaser section idea is up there now. Just gonna have bits and pieces as they get written or recorded and hopefully get some public involvement in how the new album is coming together. You guys made my feel super confident with releasing Worlds Apart, so I'm looking forward to seeing what this yields!

Woop!

Maybe Francisco Neira has been blacklisted from Frost* albums for unimaginable crimes against prog?

He is not allowed the new album.

Back luck, Frankie.

Got my tickets for next year so I'll see y'all in real life too Are there curry plans for after this gig? Or am I jumping the gun by about 6 months?