Dan Tindall: News and Views

New 15 song album now available from Bandcamp - 'Pocket Full Of Changes'

New release 'Pocket Full Of Changes' will be available soon - some new photos and cover art for you as well as the previews in the 'new tunes' section...stay tuned!

Blondes

Blondes are meeting on the stairs

Lord, some trouble must be brewing

Something bubbling in the pot

I guess it will be some guy's undoing

Be prepared for stormy weather

Be prepared for death by chatter

The blondes are meeting on the stairs

To discuss some very urgent matter



The world is full of deadly hate

Wars are fought with gay abandon

The innocent are tortured, left to die

Crimes our leaders have a hand in

But all of that is quite forgotten

When there is reputation left to batter

The blondes are meeting on the stairs

To discuss some very urgent matter



Life they say is full of wonder

I wonder who it was who said it first

And would they wonder at the sight

Of these peroxide gossip merchants fit to burst

With information built for vengeance

Against those who will not seek to flatter

The blondes who are meeting on the stairs

To discuss this very urgent matter

Added lyrics to 'Theory'

There's a loser with an attitude calling on the phone
He wants to sell me something that will beautify my home
His voice is mostly sinew stripped from someone else's bone
He's eager to impress me but I don't care for his tone

I'm working on a theory which is wrong
I'm working on a theory which is wrong
I'm working on a theory which is wrong
I'm working on a theory which is wrong

So I open up a window over next door's garden fence
Which was erected by a team of fools at very great expense
But now is broken, battered, has no future perfect tense
Just a dirty laughing crow crushing beetles with her toes

I'm working on a theory which is wrong
I'm working on a theory which is wrong
I'm working on a theory which is wrong
I'm working on a theory which is wrong

It's back inside and hide away from all the wretched noise
That all the stupid modern world so gleefully employs
To block out all the natural sounds that some of us enjoy
Never mind the futile dead, have some stupid fun instead

I'm working on a theory which is wrong
I'm working on a theory which is wrong
I'm working on a theory which is wrong
I'm working on a theory which is wrong

Two more new tunes added - 'Man I Don't Feel Too Good' and 'Beauty Queen'...

I've added a new page 'New Tunes' to preview some of these new songs I keep going on about - the older songs are all still listed under 'music' - just a couple to begin with 'Theory' and 'Blondes'. Keen listeners will detect the sweet sounds of a concert ukulele (see also previous posts!)...

With a heavy heart I have been updating my links to take into account the recent collapse over at ezFolk - basically, all the tens of thousands of MP3s by thousands of folk artists are now history. You can read all about it over at ezFolk - Richard (the site owner) has retained the core information services and resources (which are still of immense worth), and you can still join us on Facebook...but, still, what a f**king bummer!

I freely confess that these days I am shamefully slow when it comes to updating and renewing this website - but rest assured, this reflects how busy I have been (musically and otherwise) rather than any diminishing enthusiasm on my part!

Anyway, a lot of new tunes in the works, new Prosity projects, and more Lo-Fi fun to look forward to - stay tuned for updates and previews over the next few weeks!

Seeing the typical rush to blame everyone but themselves which has overtaken the ineffective executive and law-enforcement in London (and elsewhere) makes me consider how complex the causes of the recent riots have been, and looking beyond the misery it has caused communities, one has to ask; how significant is the role of the consumer society in assisting the development of selfish and sociopathic behaviour? Has civil society ceased to arm itself against thuggery, or is it just that the repeated battering it has taken from the twin attacks of overly-zealous security services (obsessed with terror from within and without) and rampant consumer-led capitalism has rendered it unwanted and ineffective? Certainly, the present government and various leaders of UK society seem to be drawn from home-grown elites or multi-national corporations. Is it surprising that those at the other end of society feel detached?

We hear a lot about the 'squeezed middle' in the economic sense, but no-one seems to have considered how culturally significant the loss of an informed consent from the vast majority of citizens might actually be. The lessons of history point to the rise of new and often unsavoury political systems, or at least the collapse of meaningful government. It is a matter of some concern that the folks at the top of the pile seem to have skipped those classes...

The current growing scandal over the News Of The World and its activities just demonstrates once again how there is a different set of rules for the rich and powerful - much like the bankers, once can only assume that the cohorts of Murdoch believe themselves to be untouchable and capable of generating their own morality. The fact that there is such a disparity between the mock concern of their various journalistic crusades and the reality of their own activities (deleting the phone messages of a missing child during a police investigation - seriously, how can anyone defend that?) just invites one to think that there is more than a whiff of sulphur about these people.

The vague and almost Clouseau-esque police investigations, along with the ineffective meanderings of parliament haven't helped produce anything other than a real expectation that there is so much more to all of this than meets the eye - but you are left to wonder if, as with the financiers and bankers who shafted us all so very recently, these crimes will go unpunished.

Real Humanitarian - Lo-Fi Fun Factory by Prosity Records

2 brand new acoustic tunes from the Lo-Fi Fun Factory

1.Real Humanitarian
2. Work Is Shit

http://lo-fifunfactory.bandcamp.com/
 

...some new tunes recorded (though not yet mixed) - and some Lo-Fi tracks on the way as well - will keep you updated!

Finally doing some new tunes  - and actually making some headway with them - can't say too much yet, but some nice sounds emerging (remember - I am my own worst critic!) - and a couple of acoustic Lo-Fi Fun Factory tracks are in the works as well!

...like having a Royal Wedding to distract people from economic downturn, or the refusal of a ruling elite to allow a fairer way of voting in case they finally get rumbled for the gangster cartel they really are...and let's not forget the fun the Great Powers and their lapdogs can have bombing former colonies back into submission, using the cloak of legality and the reeking creaking United Nations.

The US President and Chairman Mao agree - power emanates from the barrel of a gun...

My free LP 'Harrisburg' is available for commercial licensing through Pump Audio - check out the links below...

 
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License

I think I have said before how a new instrument or a new tuning can get your creative juices going again? Well, a double whammy in recent times, with a nice new acoustic dread and a ukulele finding their way into my hands. And what a difference it makes to have some new sounds (literally 'new' in fact, which also makes it seem fresh and fun again) and a whole new set of chords to learn!

The guitar - made by Tanglewood, spruce top, rosewood back and sides - big dread shape, bright and bouncy and full of zing - it always amazes me how different tops and tonewoods really do make a difference, rather like finding that trick with club soda and salt really does get red wine out of the carpet. The warm grunge of cedar and mahogany is a million miles away from this lively piece of acoustic action - bizarre and delightful!

Ukulele - Mahalo, all mahogany - even has it's own mini flight case! The only other ukes I've played are the ones that usually come with a picture of a palm tree on them and no brand name (and cost nothing), but this one that has come my way is a revelation. Concert size, warm sweet tone - and actually sounds in tune when I play it...

So some songs that have been left half-written are getting finished and re-made to learn new sounds...that is how it goes, my friends...

Lo-Fi Fun Factory - It Means Nothing EP


The single 'It Means Nothing' combined with new track 'My Worthless Opinion' has been released on Bandcamp by the Lo-Fi Fun Factory - check out the release page below -

http://lo-fifunfactory.bandcamp.com/album/it-means-nothing-ep

2 songs for £1.00 - can't be bad!



:)

Things do not bode well for 2011 - the economy is in ruins, politicians have plumbed new depths of ideological complacency, and the weather is all messed up. Should we be downhearted? No way! Chaos in the system that keep us poor always promises to provide the impetus for change; not all change is good, of course, but that's when free thinking folks have to speak up and remind their friends and comrades that there is always an alternative to a hell for leather race to preserve the rich and blame the unwanted. There is a reason why the poorest suffer to help bail out banks - and it's not because 'we're all in this together'! It's because the wage slave is an economic unit bribed into acquiescence by a few 'rights' and the promise of goodies bought on credit, not an equal in society. Times are hard, so pull in the drawbridge and let the peasants fend for themselves!

Happy New Year!

Here's the iTunes link for the new Lo-Fi Fun Factory single 'It Means Nothing' 

http://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/it-means-nothing/id405332280?i=405332327&uo=4 

Check out the new digital single from the Lo-Fi Fun Factory - 'It Means Nothing' - you can preview and buy at CDBaby, or wait a couple of days and buy it on iTunes!

http://www.cdbaby.com/Artist/LoFiFunFactory

Added some Lo-Fi tunes to the music section, links to the EP, and a couple of photos!

The two free tracks from 'All My Meditations' are now available for free download in the 'Buy' section.

I have released two free tracks from 'All My Meditations' via Prosity Records!

The two songs are 'You Know Nothing' and Take Me To The Mountains' - go to the Prosity Records site by clicking here or the link in the main text above.

So, loads of Prosity Records releases, new CD and some fantastic Lo-Fi Fun Factory material - this has been a very busy and productive time...gigs...recording....just general creative mayhem!

Please do check out all the links and info on this site - you won't regret it!

The music section has been updated for the new album!