This was the amazing opportunity that I was given along with all members of #KEMS Orchestra. Chris @swithinbank wrote an amazing piece as our adopted composer for the season in association with #BBCradio3 & making music.

The piece was formed on June 18th  as part of the #Barnaby celebrations in #Macclesfield celebrating 750years of it having the Market Charter.

Got next year's Concert dates last night, They are 7th November2009, 12th December 2009, 27th March 2010, 24th April 2010 and possibly 15th May 2010. Anyone interested in coming they are all held in Macclesfield, then let me know.

If you live in Manchester, have visited Manchester, know someone there or have even the slightest inkling of the effect Manchester had on nigh-on thirty years of music, you need to see 24 Hour Party People which is the more-or-less true history-drama of Factory Records and the Hacienda.

Back to BItTorrent and FrostWire for my music then.

I was thinking about just getting a Diners Club card to get around VISA stupidity, but I don't think I'll bother now.

Had chance for a proper read of Rebirth's manual now, with the upshot that I can now change patterns and parameters of instruments on the fly.

Listen out for them from about 30 seconds onwards in the attached.

I'm off to see if I can dig out Reason and not make a total hash of the a Code Monkey remix :-) Not that I intend to enter, it's just something to play with.