Music on Master Giraffe
It’s finally here, I remember telling Seph a month and a half ago “I’m going to make an album”, and now to suddenly have 12 songs in front of me is pretty damn cool.
So how much is it? Pfft who cares. I’ve put it up here available to download. Now here comes the part where I say… I couldn’t have done it without:
Damo from DX Interactive, that guy knows his shit and helped me with alot of stuff behind the scenes.
Korey Fernando, he has a great voice, get him to read you a bedtime story.
Ben Morling, he plays guitar like someone who has had lessons. Oh wait, he has had lessons.
Spencer Skey, he provided alot of inspiration for some songs on the album, he knows which ones.
Michael Stocks, well he taught me the violin, so I have to put him here otherwise he’ll have a cry.
Phillip, Sam and Mathew Rainbird, for having to put up with various phone calls, emails and continuous pushing for critique that was usually abuse because they would rather have been doing something else.
Luke Saxby, for sending me messages with lyrics from my songs. Yeah hardcore!
Chris Murphy, the dude lent me a bass.
and some things I could have done WITHOUT:
The guy who lives next door to my room. Dude, stop playing Eminem, snoop dogg or whatever it is.
My computer, enjoying crashing all the time. For example blowing up halfway through creating the album cover.
Having a chest infection and being forced in bed for about a week. Although it turned out ok as I had a totally different perspective on my songs.
Ok so that’s about it. I hope you enjoy listening to it. I really should get on with some university work now (and more Master Giraffe posts!). Although one of my projects does involve making a short film - and yes that will involve The Slinky Cat!
Ok so here is the final tracklisting:
1. This Is Bigger Than Carnavoce
2. My Pet Dog Eats Custard For Breakfast
3. The Romanian Train Robbery
4. There’s More To Life
5. Futuristic Pirate Robot
6. Pirate Robot Recharge
7. Round and Round
8. The Attack of the Goosen
9. Oh No He Didn’t (Oh Yes He Did!)
10. The Goochinator Spooky Cut (Ed Friedland)
11. The Fernando Torres Intermission Featuring Mr. Fernando
12. Sailing Into Venice With A Giraffe
Spencer Skey has struck Master Giraffe again. This time by arriving at a party with a ‘futuristic robot pirate’ costume. It was so good, that we here at MG just had to write a song about it, with some help from Roboman (DX Interactive).
Well the classic video clip of ‘pierce brosnan pointing on a horse because he uses hand cream’ still remains in the minds of the MG crew. So much in my mind that I mixed it into a song. Then I made it into a video clip.
Not sure what it is, to be honest, but I like it.
Mark Kump
Because it’s a road that you go! WHEN YOU DIE.
But you can’t hide it from the Giraffe. No use denying; we know. Everybody has a selection of songs they would rather people didn’t know they listened to, but it’s time to embrace your shame. Here’s our top ten guilty pleasures.
All we need now is someone to do a stop motion live concert with them…
Click on the images for BIGGER versions.
The Beatles
Jimi Hendrix
Alice Cooper
You can check out more here: http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=93340
Gary Bakewell
So who is Gary Bakewell?
He’s an actor. Who portrayed Paul McCartney in the film ‘Backbeat’.
Now, this film is about The Beatles’ earlier years when they performed a few shows in Hamburg with guitarist Stuart Sutcliffe. The film heavily concentrates on John Lennon and Stuart Sutcliffe’s relationship in and outside of the band.
The actor who plays John Lennon (Ian Hart) looks NOTHING like John Lennon, the George Harrison character basically has 2 lines and looks nothing like George Harrison, Pete Best and Ringo Starr are basically left out of the film BUT it’s Gary Bakewell as Paul McCartney who steals the spotlight.
Why? Because he looks so much like Paul McCartney, but made him look like such a tool that even Paul McCartney himself noticed it.
“One of my annoyances about the film Backbeat is that they’ve actually taken my rock ‘n’ rollness off me.” says Paul McCartney about the film, and he wasn’t off the mark at all.
Unfortunately, clips of this film on the internet were scarce (I wonder why?), so sorry about the delay, but I managed to whip up our own video clip of our favourite Paul McCartney scenes from the film above.
So watch the vid.
We here at Master Giraffe don’t know what’s better - the Gary Bakewell/Paul McCartney ‘Guitar Air Punch’ or the Pierce Brosnan ‘Pointing in the distance because I’m on a horse’.
Well, here we are at the halfway point of the year and these are the 2 albums I’ve pumped the most.
Only four more to go…
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