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Black Star members Neil Campbell & Ryan Roo play around with an acoustic guitar that needs dusting, a pair of tom toms that need oiling and agree for a slightly drunk novice sound engineer (that's me) to capture it with his recording device in the ArkSanctum.Org Studio.

This comes more or less unedited bar a little normalisation. So be patient. And enjoy...

I've been playing with the Bass Station vsti - really liking it - that's what's playing the main riffs on this track. The bass was done with FXpansion's free Orca vsti.

The voice is taken from a public information film called 'Keep Off The Grass'...

My mate Steeleye came round for tea tonight. I took the opportunity to interview him on the subject of his online novel i-con...

A rare and classic improvised jazz session spoiled by my narration! I'm going straight to hell for this one...

Cover of Sarah McLachlan's Fallen

After Tennyson's poem...

David Cameron tells us what he really thinks about British people, while we all have reason to be optimistic about being shot. As long as we're not obese.

More fun butchering BBC Podcasts with Audacity. For those of you who don't know, Audacity is a free-to-download audio program which lets users edit tracks and layer sounds on top of each other. It's well worth a Google.

Well, it's not exactly Norelpref, but it's been fun. And a great way to spend three evenings for the sake of a couple of minutes worth of output!

This is a recording from the latest concert performed by Newmill Male Voice Choir while they were touring in Poland earlier this year. I've been a member of this fine body of men for about six months now, and my own first concert would have been October 6th. However, popular Canadian Prog-Rockers, Rush are playing Sheffield that evening, so I'm going to have to miss the chance. (One has to have one's priorities straight.)

I've chosen "Anthem" from Chess because it was the first song I learned as part of the group. And also because I still can't play it without joining in. Enjoy...