Recovery

I recorded some more songs today, the second installment of the Young Shields stuff.
I did them the same as before, in my shed with one poor dynamic mic, they're very lo-fi again.
The drum kit fell apart at the end of the drums during the second song, I left it in.

Young Shields-Recovery

http://rapidshare.com/files/393020616/Young_Shields-Recovery.rar.html

or

http://www.mediafire.com/?zwomohwkgnz

or a zip file

http://rapidshare.com/files/393035853/Young_Shields-Recovery.zip.html


My hand is recovering well, so playing on this didn't hurt apart from the drums.
I have surgery on June 4th again, so I think I'll be back to square one with these, which is fine.

This is not an intelligent post

When I started this blog I was intent on it not being a forum about my personal life, I didn't want to make any posts about how I feel or what's going on in my life, and I didn't want to write about upcoming shows and stuff, as I think all of that goes kinda unoticed or is talked about in more detail elsewhere. I guess I've already kind of broken one of those rules by talking about surgery and my hand, but I find that pretty interesting myself, so a fuck you to those rules is in order. And now to break another.

I'll keep it as short and as simple as I can. Find A Way have been the most important band to me for a very long time, I'm not name dropping, or bigging up local bands or anything, I'm being as honest as I can be and I think a good few people know why they're so important. I won't dwell on the reasoning now as it's not the place. They're having their 'last show for a long time' this Sunday. It's in aid of The Irish Cancer Society, it's five euro in, First Death are playing a reunion at it too. If you're ever going to do me a favour, go to this. Go to this instead of buying me a birthday present, go to this instead of getting me a Christmas present, go to this instead of offering me good advice or sharing music with me or anything. Just go to this. It's for Charity, it's a fiver, there will be fail dives, there will be new The Blind songs. Just fucking go. I go to a lot of shows, and if you're reading this and don't usually go to shows, have probably tried to make you go to one before, don't mind them, go to this. I don't want to sound like Bob Geldof.



Stolen directly from the thread on moshspace.

Demented Promotions presents:

HARDCORE FOR CHARITY #2

ALL PROCEEDS GO TO THE IRISH CANCER SOCIETY

Find out more information about The Irish Cancer Society here.

Find A Way (LAST SHOW FOR A VERY LONG TIME!)
(http://www.myspace.com/findawayhardcore)
First Death (LAST SHOW FOREVER!)
(http://www.myspace.com/firstdeathhc)
Frustration
(http://www.myspace.com/frustrationhc)
The Blind
(http://www.myspace.com/theblindhc)
Starters
(http://www.myspace.com/startersband)

Date: Sunday, 23rd May
Place: The Pint, 28 Eden Quay
Time: 1.30pm
Price: €5 on the door! No tickets! Give more if you can, it's for a good cause!

THIS IS AN ALL AGES SHOW!

If you want to be the nicest, come to the show the day before and the day after this too.

I Recorded Some Songs

"When griping grief the heart doth wound,
and doleful dumps the mind opresses,
then music, with her silver sound,
with speedy help doth lend redress"

I don't know if posthumous praise is worth anything atal, so I don't think I'll bother here and now. Here's to hoping that quote in itself will say more than any lengthy lauding could.

As I had addressed in a previous post, I am no longer in a constant cast, but instead some kind of 'splint', the medical term of which escapes me. I've been pushing myself to create to feed my suffocating urges. I still can't paint, or draw or anything related to it, I have tried but it looked about as good as my left handed effort and hurt about as much as the initial break so y'know, t'fuck with that, yeah? Instead I've been playing guitar within certain restrictions, I still can't properly strum and if I try again, it's agony, the same goes for palm muting and I guess playing for any extended period of time, which at this stage is anything past the ten minute mark. I can only use my thumb and index finger so I've been stylistically confined to basic finger picking, but who am I to complain about that? I'm repeating myself so I'll get down to the grit.

I've written and recorded four songs since my last post that fit within a similar style, I've done some more stuff too, but it's mainly experimenting with sounds. Here I'm just going to post up a collection of five songs that have one structured storyline. I'm fairly sure the only two instruments used are a guitar and the bare bones of a drum kit. For a selection of mainly quiet songs, perhaps the feedback and noisey parts are absurd, but it all makes perfect sense in my head with relation to the story and the small bit of sampling is directly linked too.
Everything was recorded with one shit dynamic mic in my shed, and I'm fairly sure that everything apart from the drums were recorded some time after 1am, perhaps that would explain the quiet, more talking than singing vocals. My lovely friend Pamela sings on the first song because I reckon out of anybody I know, the little story I'm telling here relates to her too. Listen to her songs and check out her music Tumblr which she is trying to update on the daily with a new song each time.
http://everyindiscretion.tumblr.com/





http://www.mediafire.com/?z42xwzjnm04

OR

http://rapidshare.com/files/382853338/Young_Shields-Fracture.rar


On a medical note, I'm back in on Tuesday morning for X-rays and check ups and that and I'm in for surgery part two in two to three weeks. Everything will get sorted in time.