24 November 2013

Riot In Progress

Rather than clog up the Urban Fallout Soundcloud where you will find three of my tunes I decided to have my own account so I can upload whatever I want, when I want. Instead of repeating the same tracks here I have uploaded a demo version for a song called - R.I.P. Riot In Progress.
The lyrics for this song were originally written for The Warriors who I played bass guitar  for until recently. Not knowing if it was ever going to be used or not and after a couple of aborted attempts at rehearsing it, I decided to rewrite the tune and demo it up myself. This was demoed at the same time as Still Called Scum and another as yet unreleased song. I sent it to a few people and got quite an entusiastic response from it other than the usual "yeah, its alright" response I was accustomed to with whatever I sent out for opinions. After writing a couple more tunes and playing this a few times I decided it was not good enough for what I wanted so it will not be going in a live set or for that matter on a CD or vinyl at a later date but i thought it was worth hearing so here it is.



Please feel free to download this or any other track from the soundcloud page. If you use this in a radio show or podcast - please credit me and and let me know - Thanks Russ Crimewave

 I am not going to be posting this out on various social network sites but please feel free if you like it

13 November 2013

Internet Radio Play

After posting the last two tracks on the internet - Facebook and Google+ mainly but various other places as well, I had a nice suprise. I was actually asked if it was Ok to download one of the tracks and play it on a radio station. I had no problem with that and didnt think anything of it. Then I got sent a link to Stench Radio and clicked and looked at their playlist - fuck me, there I was, number three on the playlist alongside such luminaries as Oiz II Men and Argy Bargy. To say I was a bit chuffed was a bit of an understatement, over 100 plays on Reverbnation and played on an online radio in the space of a few weeks, things were looking up. Maybe my guitar playing isn't as bad as I first thought.

Here is the playlist from Stench Radio


If anyone else wants to play my tracks please feel free but let me know or send a link thanks.

5 November 2013

Generation iDiot

After posting Still Called Scum on the internet I wrote a few other songs, mainly a load of crap but a couple of good songs came out of it and I posted them to a couple of people I knew to get some feedback from them and to see if I was heading in the right direction.
The thing about sending them to your mates is that they will do one of two things, tell you the truth or lie profusely just so they don't upset you or piss you off in any way. Luckily I have mates that will be brutally honest and they said that with a bit of work the new songs could be really good. I decided against posting them on the internet as they need to be worked on a bit before I did so and set about writing some more.
My changing of the chords on an acoustic was getting better, it still wasn't good as I was missing strings, hitting bum notes all over the place and still couldn't play a C or F properly. But I was going to damn well carry on and would get my fingers round those two bastards sooner or later.
I was playing electric guitar as well, swapping between them so that I could play on one what I played on the other or so I thought. Nope, i found it easier to play barre chords on the electric and open chords on the acoustic, I was struggling with  barre chords on the acoustic but was going to persevere.

Generation iDiot came about one afternoon while I was in a pub trying to have a conversation with someone who insisited on checking their phone and using it pretty much contstantly. Its pretty frustrating when you are trying to say something and the person you are talking to is texting or in this case updating their status on Facebook while in the middle of  a conversation. How frustrating and annoying and more to the point - bloody rude. The other thing that annoys me about modern technology is people taking ipads to gigs to film the gig. You're at a gig to watch the band or whatever not to stand there watching the entire thing thru an ipad whilst filming the gig - show some respect please.
I mean who takes an ipad to a gig ... this bloke obviously


Like the previous song, Still Called Scum, this was entirely played and recorded by myself, I even managed to work out some harmonics on the electric to give it some dynamics, rather than a straight forward chordorama thrashalong song.





Please feel free to download this or any other track from the soundcloud page. If you use this in a radio show or podcast - please credit me and and let me or Urban Fallout know - Thanks Russ Crimewave