Update

[Jem]

Hello loves,

Sorry for the never ending apologies about my shoddy attendance record. 2012 is turning out to be the busiest year I've ever ever had as a professional musician.

Obviously you know about Radio 2 now, it's been 4 years in the planning and has been the holy grail dayjob gig for me ever since the charts and I fell out. Blunders played a blunder, sorry, blinder last week and everyone was blown away by the manner of the man as well as his formidable chops. Sadly not mutton chops...

Then there's G3. The good news about that though is that as with all touring and almost entirely unlike my dayjob (26 days straight working without a break and counting, 12 to go!) there is a great deal of hanging about doing nowt therefore I have plucked the fatted MacBook from the Apple tree and filled it with many goodies to enable me to fill all the waiting about time with writing. For Frost. I'm looking forward to that as much as I am to playing decent venues with decent hotels, decent fees, decent catering and not a splitter van in sight.

By the time I alight at Gatport Airwick on Aug 6th, I should have much progress under my belt. I'm extremely excited by this as I have to say the winds of Frost (ahem) have truly gripped me again and I'm absolutely raring to get going good and proper. I expect the writing will carry on into Autumn and Winter with the serious recording starting next Spring. Drums, guitars and hopefully bass will all be recorded at Sphere Studios in Battersea. Franc there got me the most fantastic drum and guitar sound ever this week and I want that tone on my album, no question. Same for the guitars. There'll be none of this virtual carp...I want air moving.    8-)

Anyways, I can't say I'll b e back soon, but I shall try. Happy Jubidoo dear hearts. Enjoy the time off, have a beer for me.

Jx

[Mikey]

Tickity & boo-ness with some prog-ress as well.

Hurrah for de boss, he's da man.

     

[Fogeyspasm]

I want a virtual carp!  :lol:
Is it an add on and where do i purchase one?

[L33VEY]

I had that beer on Jem at beer o'clock precisely  hic........

[sawtooth]

Who cares about the quantity of your posts when they're always quality ones!
All fab news Jem  

[ich_bin_besser]

Hallo Jem!  8-)

[Mordwin]

What Ho! Spiffing news dear boy, absolutely spiffing!

[D S]

OK, at risk of displaying terrible ignorance, Radio 2? Blunders? What did I miss?!  :?
I know the day job involves many jingles for the said station and the odd Wise Buddah production crops up but beyond that...?

[Pedro]

The second paragraph says it all really, Team Jem at WB got the gig to replace R2's jingle package.
A huge deal...and Blunders was invited to do all the hitting.
If you are one of those people who don't do Twitter because it's a waste of time or pointless then you wouldn't have seen the Tweets or the pictures.
Very happy for all concerned...can't wait to hear it all.

[D S]

Thanks Pedro - that is good news indeed and I look forward to hearing the end results on a daily basis.  8-)

I don't use Twitter (or indeed Facebook   ) for any other reason than I suspect I would lose even more of my limited spare time to cyberspace!

[E.S.]

Nice to get an update, sir. Busy is good for the bank account, but it sounds like some well deserved time off would be good. Simple solution: Have a cardboard figure of yourself in the studio and some music on repeat, and no one will know you're really on some tropical island drinking piña coladas.

[fitzy]

Congrats on 2012 so far Jem.. Couple of dream gigs in there,richly deserved!!

[gr8gonzo]

Indeed. Huge congrats on the Radio 2 gig. And it's very exciting to hear there will soon be progress in Frost*land once again. I can't imagine how much different my life may be when that thing is released a year from now.

[Mikey]

Thanks Pedro - that is good news indeed and I look forward to hearing the end results on a daily basis.  8-)

I don't use Twitter (or indeed Facebook   ) for any other reason than I suspect I would lose even more of my limited spare time to cyberspace!

Me too, though I do wonder what I miss out on with Jem  

[rogerg]

RAWK!