As I'm sure you can imagine Me and Perry spend a lot of time talking about music; "why on earth didn't they go back into the middle eight there!" or "did you know 'such and such' sung harmonies on 'blah de blah' when they were sharing a studio in 1977" you get the idea.
Anyhow something that came lately was the dreaded second album syndrome, and it got me thinking about our Song Century album and what we'd do for the follow up.

The way I see it for W!LDs second album we’d have one of two options: either we could write a load of new songs, in which case we’d be doing very well to make them better then ten songs narrowed down out of 100! Or we could take another selection of songs from the Song Century collection. If we did that though what would be the chances the public would like those songs as much as the ones they'd actually picked out themselves?

It could be a bit of a conundrum, but when I thought about it a bit more, I realized a few reasons why it probably wouldn't be.
You see although we did our best to give all the songs in the Song Century project an even chance of being voted onto the album, some of the songs do have a slight advantage. Any songs with full arrangements for-instance, or that we regularly play in W!LD’s live sets, will stand out from the pack, as will the songs with catchy beginnings and good titles.
Therefore a few songs are bound to slip under the net, which is great news for album no.2! As well as the songs with boring titles, and the ones that will sound very different once they’re fully arranged, it could contain the epics that no one can quite manage when there's 100 other tracks to get through, and the songs that only reveal their true nature after repeated plays.
Alternatively of course we could just do an electronica concept album based on the adventures of Winnie the Pooh.

I’ll have to put it to the rest of rest of the band when the time comes.

Anyway the point of all this is, that if like me there's a song on song century you're rather fond of but think might get out overlooked, then by all means vote for it, tell your friends about it, even drop free copy's of the song from a helicopter, but don't worry to much if it doesn't make the final 10, there's always a chance it could be on the next W!LD release.

Louis

PS an interview with us is in the evening echo today which we're delighted about, its so cool to see a big picture of W!LD in the paper!   

That was a busy weekend!
I've spent a day the big city, (cork), been to see an unlikely 'musical' production of Pride and Prejudiced, played and watched far more football then was probably good for me, seen some delightful people, and finished up yesterday by toasting marshmallows over a seaside bonfire.

However unless I write a song about it, I can't say I've had a particularly W!LD centric time.
We have had a few bits of news though; the most notable being that there will be a W!LD interview in Thursdays edition of the evening echo, so look out for that.

Perry got back last night as well, sporting a tidy new hairdo, so with the two restored to our places at the helm of the W!LD corporation, things should get a little busier, or at least sillier over the next couple of days.

 

For now though, courtesy of W!LD, have a good day folks!

Louis  

Our new Pa speakers and stands arrived this week, so W!LD HQ is now a mess of  boxes and bubble wrap. Perry’s currently away, but when he gets back he’ll me find enclosed in a fort of cardboard, just like Joey in Friends. I wonder if I could find a chick and a duck.

The speakers are for our forthcoming W!LD tour, as the last time we had to organise our own gig, getting a pa together was a bit of a nightnare. We ended up having to borrow speakers from the Kinsale College Amphitheatre, a lengthy process that involved taking apart the front of the stage, and trying to clear copious amounts of bark mulch from the electrics.

Said tour is going to include some lengthy acoustic gigs, so from inside my fort I’ve been having fun picking out songs from the 100, to add to our live set.

I’m currently attempting to write a bass line for Perry’s song John Martyn.

    

Meanwhile our press releases have so far achieved little result; (unless somebody has decided to feature Song Century on their site, and just not tell us about it,) however we’ve barely scratched the surface of all the music press out there, so we’ll keep on trying.

Luckily plenty of you are still voting and donating without needing a nod from the music mass media; many thanks to you all!   

Louis

I'd like to offer a small apology here, to those of you i revealed Song Century to a little early. You see the thing is I'm a terrible optimist, and almost since Christmas I've been convinced that the launch of song Century would just be a few days away. So like a broken record I've been telling my nearest and dearest "just another week or two and we'll be ready to go!"
Still, at least we got there in th end, unlike the infamous uncompleted 'W!LD EPs'. Its obvious what the problem with those were now, too few songs!!    

W!LD are currently existing in a sea of Press releases, so last night it was with some relief that we managed to get out and visit the Fred's open mic.

It was a night of few musicians and consequently unusually long sets, and incredibly despite having just released one hundred original songs, a piano-less W!LD only had seven acoustic numbers rehearsed!

I definitely need to write some more bass lines, once this press release sea has been reduced to a puddle that is. 

Goodness me i think i just saw a dolphin, I must go see go see if he can tell me the email address of NME.......

Louis

Where writing this blog was concerned, the Song century project a gave me a rather frustrating problem. I was delighted when we came up with the idea, as recording 100 songs was bound to be an exercise ripe with intrigue and anecdotes. unfortunately though the realization then dawned that the project was going to have to be kept a secret, otherwise we'd run the risk of nobody being interested anymore when we were finally ready to launch. 

So as all W!LDs energies went into recording songs and designing our crazy website, my career as a famous blogger ground to a halt...

Nearly a year has past since then though, and today i am pleased to announce that as Song Century is finally launched, I'm now fully able renew my attempts to entertain and intrigue you with all things W!LD!!!

So, watch this space and I will endeavor to keep it free from tumble weed, and full of goodies.

bye for now,
Louis

Universal supernova Live... + extra spacey bits.


Louis.

My apologies it's been a while since I've written to you, and a lots happened since then; the most exciting thing being, that we've made three new W!LD recordings, (one of which was done, you could almost say accidentally, in an extremely professional studio,) and are finally in a place where an EP release doesn't feel a million miles away. 
We've also spent a busy week rehearsing* in preparation for said recordings, played a gig in the city, recorded a couple of music videos, and started adding a host of new songs to our live set.

So yeah we've been busy little 'Thunderbees'! (sorry that's one for a W!LD fan with a very good memory.)

The recordings we've done, regretfully need to be mixed before I can post them on here, but I've nearly finished editing the videos so I'll post them up soon.
And er.... do my best to write some more comments while I'm at it.   

Louis.

*and playing Donkey Kong on our Wii. . . . music can be stressful sometimes, so repeatedly letting Donkey and Diddy Kong fall down deep chasms, and be eaten by giant piranha plants, while attempting to save their bananas hoard from evil villains, was a highly 'inportant' part of our rehearsing, 'cough'.