Entrails Into The Blogosphere

Well hello everyone! They said it could never happen, but the world has caught up with me, and I find myself here in the groovy world of blog. This is all part of the "powers that be" creating a massive multimedia campaign to bring the music of mad_vicar to an eager public. It's all rather exciting, and also quite bewildering. I always seem to get things the wrong way round: I schmooze when I am supposed to networking, and have not prioritised my pre-determined growth in the various samplings from the demographic as a whole, apparently. Or something.

Of course, the big cheeses will probably use this shady nook in a far outpost of the Internet to post over-hyped, enthusiastic, and jargon-laden Press Releases to do with mad_vicar "product". I foolishly believed for years that what I was creating was "music", "products" are the sort of things sold in Tesco or LiDL. Still, if things get ridiculous, I can always pull the plug and the whole thing will be sucked into an Internet web-hole. A tiny victory, but a victory none the less.

Music-wise, work continues sporadically on the seventh album. At the moment things are too hectic to get the chance to record anything, but I grasp any opportunity with both hands. Interestingly, "Liquidators" has been "sent to Russia"! The staff at Voice of Russia now have a copy, and I am waiting to hear their opinions. I am really curious as to what an actual citizen of the ex-USSR thinks of a multimedia project about The Liquidators and their struggle to contain and minimise the damage done by the explosion of Reactor Number Four at Chernobyl Power Plant in April 1986. It's been well-received here in the UK, but we shall have to wait and see.

Hopefully, once we get all these different web resources tied together via the mad_vicar website, you will be able to listen to tracks, and enjoy viewing the excellent video collages that the Authentricity Images and Vision Department put together to accompany some of them.

Otherwise, that's all the news from the home studio at present. I know people like to do the "what am I listening to right now" thing, so here is my current sound enjoyment: I have been sent two DVD-R discs by a lovely personage called Fielding M. McGehee III. They contain MP3 versions of hundreds of tapes recorded by Rev. Jim Jones and his "family", in Jonestown, Guyana. They run from 1977 right up to the final suicide recording of November 1978. The tapes have been digitised by The Jonestown Institute - an organisation that aims to provide as much information on The People's Temple as possible without being judgemental or preachy. Please do visit their website, which you can find here.

Don't forget, ladles and jellyspoons, that the Jonestown affair inspired 50% of the fourth mad_vicar album "Father Cares" which is still available via Authentricity Electronic Sound Reproductions Limited. Visit the mad_vicar website for more information.