Before Christmas, I made a remix for a Yearbook song off of their ‘All Squares and Cicrcles’ EP. I haven’t shared it with anyone yet, but I am now releasing the beast out into the wild. I just uploaded the song onto my Soundcloud, so have a listen and give me your feedback. I wondered if putting the song on here would be considered pretentious, but I believe you have to utilize your social networking tools if you want people to listen to your material. So here we are.
Yearbook asked a select few people to remix one track off of their ‘All Squares and Circles’ EP, resulting in five people creating five remixes that will hopefully be put onto a 5-track remix EP. If you want a bit more insight into the remix, I wrote a fairly in-depth description on Soundcloud.
Download Yearbook’s EP ‘All Squares and Circles’ absolutely free on Musicglue.
I got in from work earlier to the news that MP’s have voted for the tuition fee cap to be raised to £9,000. It’s a sad day, obviously, for current and prospective students and anyone working within any university, but if ANYONE says to me that they still had hope, they are lying to me. H0w could you possibly think that David Cameron would get out of bed on the right side this morning and say ‘oooo, i’m feeling quite generous today, just tell ’em we’ll keep the fees the same’? With the amount of speculation, protesting and sheer debate on the subject, it would have been an absolute miracle if fees remained the same, so I ask, why the surprise?
I’m not going to delve much deeper into the political side of it, because frankly I am not the person to do so, and when I talk about politics I get into verbal arguments with bands who got big off of a cover song. But in situations like these I think the media are hugely influencial. Ever since the speculation about tuition fees arose, the media were of course straight onto the case, with front-page articles and students being interviewed (waving to their mummies and daddies) about how they wouldn’t survive at university with the increased fees and how it’s ‘ridiculous’ and ‘stupid’ and for the Oxbridge students ‘frankly absurd!’. All in all, the media played on the situation as if we were spiralling into a black-hole filled with debts, repayments, loans and a picture of Nick Clegg’s face with a drawn-on moustache at the bottom of it. In the end, the media were bang on the money, we hit the bottom of that black hole today, and for some drama queens we hit the bottom with quite some impact. I think a lot of people go along with the mindset of the media and just ‘let it happen’, so to speak, but if the media looked upon this in a more positive light from day one, would today have been the same outcome? Maybe. Perhaps. Probably not. In my eyes, it was so inevitable a decision that the cockroaches starting scurrying away months ago (if you understand this, well done).
Anyway, I have a great idea for Nick Clegg. Cleggy, it’s been a long day, full of hard decisions and moments where you could have pulled all your hair out. When you get home, make yourself a nice, big Horlicks in your favourite mug, sit down in your best chair and have a listen to the teaser of a remix I made for my old band, Yearbook.
That helped, right? Terrific news. Now, get an early night, tomorrow will probably be similar to today, lots of criticism and nasty comments, you need to be full of energy and alert. Get your wife to change the bed-sheets, then tuck yourself in and nod off around 10pm ish. That gives myself plenty of time to BREAK INTO YOUR HOUSE WITH A CROWBAR THEN DRIVE A WOODEN STAKE THROUGH YOUR VAMPIRE HEART, YOU BASTARD.
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