And so, yet again we’re less than two weeks a week about a day away from the start of the 2026 RPM Challenge, so – as ever – it’s way past time for me to write about last year’s challenge. And as usual, your annual reminder that the RPM Challenge is a challenge to record […]
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Pink Floyd? Who??
It was Fathers Day here in the UK yesterday, and I just remembered something which happened while I was working in our local small independent record shop 20 years ago. The day before Fathers Day was one of the busiest days I’d seen in the shop (the busiest was Christmas Eve). It was full of […]
Continue readingRPM Challenge – Well That (Nearly) All Went Horribly Wrong!
So… as the RPM Challenge starts tomorrow, I thought it might be a good idea to set up my keyboard today and check that everything still works. To set the scene, there is a coffee table to the left of my desk, under the window, which is where the keyboard normally sits. It uses a […]
Continue readingIt’s… Another Album! RPM Challenge 2024
As we move through the final week of January 2025, and February fast approaches, I realise that once again I seem to have left it to the last minute to blog about last year’s RPM Challenge before I start this years challenge in just a couple of days! And, as ever, your annual reminder that […]
Continue readingAnother Year, Another Album! RPM Challenge 2023
Once again it is only a couple of weeks, less than a week, a day until the start of this year’s RPM Challenge, so it’s time for me to once again write a long-overdue blog post about last year’s recording… As ever, your regular reminder that the RPM Challenge is a challenge to record an […]
Continue readingWhy, Yes! I Made Another Album… RPM Challenge 2022
Once again I find myself just a week away a couple of days away from the start of this year’s RPM Challenge and realised I should write a post about recording last year’s album. First, the annual reminder that the RPM Challenge is to record an album of original music during the month of February […]
Continue readingSo, I Recorded Some More Music In 2021…
Not only did I record a new album in 2021 (during February, for the RPM Challenge), later in the year I also recorded what I can only really describe as a single (as in, it was only one track, and it wasn’t 35 minutes long!) This came about when Spitfire Audio announced a competition to […]
Continue readingTo Mars! (Musically Speaking)… RPM Challenge 2021
So, with about a week to go before the start of this year’s RPM Challenge, it’s about time I posted something about last year’s recording. First, an apology… I started writing this post months ago, but then I got side-tracked by any number of shiny things and, well, here we are… Earlier last year, as […]
Continue readingIt’s Another Album! RPM 2020
Once again, I find myself only a day away from starting a new RPM Challenge album, so it is once more time (long overdue, as ever) to write about the last album. And also, your annual reminder that the RPM Challenge is to record an album of original music entirely in the month of February. […]
Continue readingAnd Another Album! RPM Challenge 2019
The RPM Challenge starts again tomorrow (regular reminder: The RPM Challenge is to record an album of original material during the month of February), so I thought it was time to write some words about last year’s album. Inspiration Back in July 2018, I went to a show in the Buxton Fringe called Earthling by […]
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