<![CDATA[ルイス-Take me to the River - Take Me To The Blog]]>Sun, 08 Apr 2012 13:20:43 -0800Weebly<![CDATA[Francis & Boyd, iTunes EP Launch!!!]]>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:32:07 -0800http://takemetotheriver.weebly.com/1/post/2012/02/post-title-click-and-type-to-edit.html
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So Today our EP - 'I was A Felled Destroyer' has been made available on iTunes!!! Yea!!! A whole week earlier than expected! Very happy with that!

Next week will be a busy one for us too, as we will be shooting a music video for the Ep's Single 'Love Has No Decay'. I can't wait! Might be a bit cold though, as a lot of the filming will be outside and it's freezing, here in England, right now!!! 

It's been great fun making this EP, and I couldn't be any happier with the results! 

Well I'll see you soon, and whilst your here, you can listen to the single below!!

See ya!!! x x x 
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]]><![CDATA[Art?]]>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 09:36:37 -0800http://takemetotheriver.weebly.com/1/post/2012/01/art.htmlArt's good fun! I used to love Art lessons in school! Simply because, at the end of the lesson you would be able to take home what you had created with your own hands and show your mum and dad! Then no matter how bad your art was, they would tell you how great it was! Never a better feeling then showing your parents that you were capable of creating something! That's what's great about Music and art, for me anyway. No matter the quality of what you are doing, you are bringing something into existence. When people look upon or listen to something you have created their minds are stimulated in a positive or negative way! That doesn't sound at all pretentious does it?! It's true though, so I apologize not!

Here's some of my "art". Hopefully it is a positive stimulus for you! 
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Japanese Anime - Based off of an old piece of Japanese art.
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A self portrait of myself busking!
]]><![CDATA[Life as a "Musician"]]>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 15:12:15 -0800http://takemetotheriver.weebly.com/1/post/2012/01/life-as-a-musician.htmlHey everyone! How's it going?

My old friend whom i haven't spoken to in a long time, randomly decided to post on my wall - a link to an internship application... this wouldn't normally be very interesting for me, but the day before, i was thinking of asking my college for some work in the music department and the internship she sent me the link to happened to be for a position at 'the royal academy of music - london'!!! I wouldn't usually be as bold to think i had a chance of getting the position, but i think everything happens for a reason, and it's funny my friend - not communicated with in a long time - should point me in this direction!!
I've applied anyway! so fingers crossed! It's unpaid and I'm in debt, but 'the royal academy' !!! wouldn't that be amazing?! especially because i want to study violin there someday!


In other news, things with my band have been going really well! We now have regular gigs in london and had representatives from sony come to our gigs, along with various management companies! how cool ey?! Let's hope something good comes from it!

we've almost finished recording our new EP too! we've been going to a proper recording studio and it's been such good fun! I can't wait to hear the finished results! It should be mixed by next week, so i'll post some snippets up here! 



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Above: our best gig yet @ the purple turtle - london.

There's a lot i would like to talk about this week, other than updates, but I'm not quite confident enough to post the entirety of my mind! this blogging thing is for my fun, but still, it seems a bit too self indulgent!

here is a piece of music i wrote for the guitar, that's about as much as i can offer!

I hope you like it. Take care mate! x x 
]]><![CDATA[Blog 2!!]]>Sun, 31 Jul 2011 15:02:37 -0800http://takemetotheriver.weebly.com/1/post/2011/07/blog-2.html
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Hows it going?!

It's been a great couple of months! I started up a new band called 'Francis & boyd'! it started off as a two piece with just jack and myself, and we recorded our ep - which is now up on itunes!! 

http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/you-remind-me-electra-single/id448498435?ign-mpt=uo%3D4 weeblylink_new_window


as i was saying... we started off as a two piece, but have now got the full band together, which is great! we have already played a bunch of really cool festivals such as: Brighton beer festival, dromos festival, and rox festival! There is more to come as well, which is awesome! 

anyway, the main point of this post is to show a video i recorded just a few days ago! it's a piece of music by shiro sagisu called 'going home'. I learnt it to play to my nan for her 80th birthday and liked it so much, i thought i would film it! 

enjoy! ^_^ x x x 

]]><![CDATA[1st Blog/ Good Happiness Feelings! ^__^]]>Sat, 12 Mar 2011 14:21:14 -0800http://takemetotheriver.weebly.com/1/post/2011/03/1st-blog-good-happiness-feelings-__.htmlPicture
Hazaah and hello! This will be my first blog, and I must say it's a bit strange. It's a bit like writing a diary and leaving it on the table for everyone to read... 


The Last week has been great! The sun has started to show it's pretty face again and my mood is great! In the week I made this video of a Piece of music I wrote not long ago. Its Music for the morning! Nice bright, Summer mornings! Can you tell I like summer? Anyway, I think it has a good vibe to it and that's what music is about for me! 

On another musical note, my band "The Lowland Runners" have just finished recording our debut EP, so I am very excited! All That's left to do is finalize the Mix and get it duplicated! I'll be sure to post more about it when it's released! If you want to check out my band and hear some live recordings we did for "The Chi Live, Sofa Sessions" at the end of last year, then click on this link to our facebook page! >>>>>   http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Lowland-Runners/168248976538854

I think I am going to keep this blog short as it is my first time, but here is the video I made in the week. Enjoy it! ^__^
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