John's Quavering Pencil

Hello!

This is a quick note to let you know that I have placed a link on my Website Homepage that will let you play the audio from my Internet show in the Second Life virtual community – this is the address –  http://www.lewismusic.co.uk/

I played the gig on Saturday 13th May (2017). There is no visual element, but it should play in whatever app you use to play music on your computer/tablet/phone/washing machine/ whatever.

I also need to apologise for lack of blogs this past year. I did eventually finish my book of illustrations for lyric fragments taken from my original songs. I am currently working on a new book of sketches, but it might take me a year or more to finish. So far I have completed about half-a-dozen sketches that I think will work.

It is 04.30 a.m. in England and I got up to do a bit of piano practice. I had better get on with that. Then I shall probably roll back to bed for a bit before breakfast. Speak to you later, my dear blogophiles!

Hello!

This is a brief note to say that I have recently made a Donald Trump cartoon which you can find on my website:

Trump cartoon

I hope that this link works for you and that you enjoy the cartoon.

Speak to you later, my dear blogophiles.

Hello!
Well, I wasted some time this afternoon on what can only be described as a displacement activity (instead of getting on with some graphics for my forthcoming illustrated book about my songs).

I get fed up having to drive past Gormley’s sculpture ‘The Angel of the North’ every time I go up the A1 from Sunderland. so I decided to make my own fantasy sculpture, which I hereby call ‘The Bagel of the North’

Speak to you later, my dear blogophiles 🙂

Hello!
It has been a while since I have posted here. I seem to have been very busy refurbishing my little music studio. Anyway, be that as it may, I have heard that BBC TV Channel Four is going to do a programme about chemical warfare and the UK establishment known as ‘Porton Down’. This is due to be scheduled on Tuesday 28th June 2016 at 2100 GMT. Well, it occurred to me that I wrote a song about chemical warfare back in the early 1980s. I released it in 1983 (the copyright # is ISRC GBGHU0300005).

A version of this song is up on my Bandcamp site:
http://fyrmusica.bandcamp.com/track/chemical-warfare

The fyrmusica site is so named after my Second Life avatar (Fyrm Fouroux) but you don’t really need to know that.

Anyway, I thought I would tell you about this. Speak to you later, my dear blogophiles!

Hello! This is to let you know that I have now placed a digitally orchestrated version of my song ‘Trip to the tip’ on Bandcamp

Hello! I have now put a version of Hawk’s Dinner up on Bandcamp:
A hawk’s dinner
Hoping to get more up in due course.

Hello! Yet another song up on bandcamp now…
Fried eggs for breakfast

There might be a pause before I get any more songs up, for a while. I think I am more or less up-to-date with what I have on file. There is more to come, but that will require work in the home-recording studio. Speak to you later, my dear blogophiles.

Hello,
My song Chemical Warfare (originally recorded in studio, back in 1983) is now up on my Fyrmusica Bandcamp site
Chemical Warfare
The artwork is new. I finished that today!

Hello!
I have now uploaded my song ‘Waiting up’ to the Fyrmusica Bandcamp site. I have made some new artwork for the track, which I hope you will enjoy.
Waiting up

Speak to you later, my dear blogophiles.