Happy New Year

I was away for Christmas, Therefore I wasn't blogging. But I'm back for 2013. Plans, well I have a few, but I will keep them a secret for a while, Until They start to come together. However, there will be a video coming up for one of our songs, I can tell you that much, I'm just in the scripting process now. Also I have to catch up with some art work and there will be more songs to come. So am I excited about the new year? Yes I am. So now I have to go cook and Drink (in that order).

Happy New Year from Dave & Glenn.

Master Charger Rehearsal Photo’s

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These were some photo’s that Master Charger asked me to take for them, promoting their new band line up. They’re a 70’s style, striped back, hard n heavy band and they wanted that black n white gritty look to fit the mood of the music.So this is what I came up with. I had to use lots of different angles to make a very boring rehearsal room look interesting.

Psycho Sexual.

This is MG's new track, which structurally is probably our most complicated, but with a very simple bass line underpinning it. This one just flowed as we wrote it and it was an excellent team effort to produce my personal favorite track so far. Let us know what you think.

FREE Downloads end tonight.

So after tonight we are going to put a small charge on our songs, not that we really expect to sell that many, it's kind of an experiment to see if a small two man outfit can make a few pence from doing something they love and whether all the promotion we have done has worked. I'm going to do a blog soon about the promo we have done, what has worked for us and what hasn't, with some links to some interesting sites, so stay tuned.

A reminder about FREE downloads

Just a reminder that tomorrow Friday the 23rd of November is the last day that you will be able to download all our tracks for free, after this date we are putting on a small fee. So go and grab yourself some free tunes and even better let us know what you think of them. You can download the tracks here.

http://soundcloud.com/marshallglenn
www.reverbnation.com/mgblast
http://www.purevolume.com/MG30096

Rastacat, MG's strangest creation yet.

Your either going to love or hate this one, bit like Marmite. This is one of Glenn's sole creations and when I first heard it, I thought what the hell, but then I thought why not, that was the whole idea behind MG, that anything goes and in the end it's grown on me (however I still don't like Marmite). So anyway don't ask me what Glenn was thinking when he wrote this one but I have told him to stop off the E numbers.

MG release free downloads for one week only.

For one week only we are making all our songs that are on-line free to download, as a thank you to those that have shown us support already. After that period we are going to put a small charge on them, so hurry and grab them while you can. If you use them in any of your own video of musical projects, then please credit us and link it back to this Blog. So here is where you can get them.
http://soundcloud.com/marshallglenn
www.reverbnation.com/mgblast
http://www.purevolume.com/MG30096
Happy listening and thank you again for your support.

New artwork for You are my Servant

Here at last is the new artwork for You are my Servant. This took me a long time to come up with the concept and finally how to come up with the image. In the end I used Illustrator and Photoshop to produce a bleak image of life in the UK at the moment. Under a government we did not elect and a PM who is determined to destroy our public services. This artwork shows my disillusionment with the British political system and all its corruption. We are all Mr Cameron's servants and he can do whatever he likes to our lives. I do apologise to our overseas readers for this very British rant.

I believe the image fits very well with the song, with its gritty menacing undertones and the feeling of unrest that lies beneath the surface of today’s society. Feel free to comment on my very cynical view of the world.
Just to add a little more food for thought, isn't it the politicians who are suppose to serve us? not the other way round.

For all though's who. New song By MG

A very urban sounding track with a bit of industrial grit. This is another one of Glenn's tunes, I always said he had strange taste. Let us know what you think, I like it.

Suppose You Suddenly Heard

One of our old tunes, but one I've got a bit of a soft spot for, let us know what
you think.

Unity in Black

Unity in Black Check this out for an amazing Stoner Rock band that I do some Artwork for. Takes you right back to the 70's.

The art that I forgot

Yeah, I forgot to blog about this and it's been out for a good while now. I'm talking about the artwork for Bored of living in my mind. this was my first attempt at bringing in 3-D elements into my artwork rather than just using photo manipulation. It seems to have worked out quite well. I used a lot of programs to create this, Daz studio 4 for the basic figure, Bryce 7 for the stone materials and Photoshop for the final composite. It took about 10 hours to render on my very underpowered computer. The concept of the art is about how a lot of people, including me, live in their dreams rather than in their reality and how our dreams never seem to come true because we're too busy living in them.

Walk a Mile In My Shoes. MG's latest song.

A rather scary tune for Halloween. This is our new song, Which was inspired originally by a riff from a Jimi Hendrix song 1983. Don't ask me how it turned out like this, but it sure has a lot of impact. So here it is Walk A Mile In My Shoes,

Naughty Boy. Another new song from MG.

Well, they are coming out thick and fast now. We have just released another new song, this one is called Naughty Boy. This strange little song, which is catchier than it should be. This is one of Glenn's flights of fancy and he's made a dam good job of it. We hope you enjoy it.

New song and artwork for Dead Inside

I've been letting my blogging duties slip (oh no) so I have a lot to catch up on. First off our song dead inside has artwork at last. I created this piece to show my feelings about mobile phones, how they communicate so much, yet they have no life and express no feelings. So anyway, here it is.

Secondly we have a new song out. Called You are my Servant. Which is our first foray into dubstep and we really enjoyed writing it. As we both feel right at home writing this style of impact music. Which we believe is very similar to the rock and metal songs we have helped write in the past. So give it a listen, let us know what you think.

New song. Bored of living in my mind.

So this is the last of our old songs for a while, we will now be concentrating on releasing the songs we have been working on recently. Our other old songs. We are going to remix, as we don't think they are quite up to standard, yet. So look out for a bit of a change in direction to our music. So anyway here is our new track. Please feel free to leave a comment.

MG BLAST

New Master Charger badge artwork

The guys from Master Charger asked me to produce a piece of artwork that they could use for a badge to place on their social media sites, T-shirts and their other promotional packaging. The brief was that they wanted something simple and striking, so that's what they got. Sometimes they say that less is more, then thats what the guys from Master Charger must believe as they really like my design. Well here it is. And this is the link to find out about Master Charger. https://www.facebook.com/mastercharger A true Gritty heavy rock band.

New song DEAD INSIDE

We have just released our new song DEAD INSIDE. Which differs from the tracks we have released so far, as it has vocals, penned and executed by Glenn himself and I think personally he sounds mighty fine (but don't tell him or he wont be able to get his head in the room). Although he definitely sounds angry as hell on this track which he probably was. It definitely fits the gritty sound of this tune. Anyway have a listen to it see what you think.

Competition track and new Art work

It's been a busy couple of days, I went round to Glenn's yesterday and had a great remix session. I had never done one of these before and found it great fun. Glenn wanted to enter a competition remixing Love Island by Fatboy Slim. The details of which are here http://www.junodownload.com/remix_fatboyslim/
It was great just putting our own style on a classic track, we've kind of found our formula of writing now and we are producing a lot of stuff. I've also spent the whole day coming up with the art work for our new song EMO COASTER, This proved more difficult than I thought, with three attempts to get the title to look write, but I'm happy with the final result. Thought I would go for a more simplistic image and what shows emotions more than eyes, especially, I think in black and white. But how to lay out the cover, I had to do some research first and then go back to the drawing board to come out with the final result, anyway enough of my ramblings, here it is.

I wanted to show the Gothic style of the music in the title, but with a futuristic twist, it seemed to be a very hard thing to marry together and I'm still not sure I've pulled it off, but I really like the emotions in the eye.

New songs, lots of new songs

What a busy day. Did some writing with Glenn today and he's been a very busy boy, we got all the parts down for a new track and Glenn had already written two songs. At this rate we will have more than an albums worth. nice work Glenn. we may have also discovered a way of playing live to a crowd without all the hassle that goes around touring, we found this website http://www.stageit.com/  we just have to find out. Technically, how we can do it, but it looks exciting. Finally, we have also uploaded our new song called Emo coaster. Which is probably our most atmospheric track to date. I have no idea what was on our minds when we wrote it, but it does seem to work. Well go take a listen, see what you think.https://www.reverbnation.com/mgblast Also you can now download Suppose you Suddenly Heard from the same site for a limited period, so go and check that out too.

Photo's I've done for a friends Band.

Put some Promo Photo's up on Facebook today for a mates Band called Master Charger. Who are an excellent band, by the way, go and check them out at https://www.reverbnation.com/mastercharger
But anyway, they have had a line up change and they wanted me to relaunch the band, so I started by updating their Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/mastercharger which had been neglected for some time. They also wanted me to sort out some photo's I'd done for them a couple of months ago, while they had been practising in the studio. John the Vocalist and Guitarist came up with a crazy idea that he wanted the photo's to look like they had been taken through one of those spy holes in hotel doors, so I set about trying to recreate this and this is what I came up with.

HyperSmash

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MG on FACEBOOK

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New Art work for Suppose You Suddenly Heard

Well that's it I'm back from my very wet holiday, in Scotland. I'm back to get some MG stuff promoted. So here we go, I spent most last night, working in Photoshop to get the art work done for our brand-new song. I got the idea for it from the old 1940s public information posters. I think it also has a little bit of 1950s sci-fi about it too. I quite like the concept of that little voice in your ear actually having a body and trying to get out, hence the finger poking out of the ear. Well I suppose you could come up with your own ideas, as to what the picture means, I just have a weird imagination. So anyway, here's the artwork.

Strategies for promotion

What a minefield, so many social net works, where do you begin. Well why not just blitz them all and see what happens, that was my initial thoughts, but it is becoming time consuming but also a little addictive. But how to get real fans, that seems to be the Holy Grail of promo, not just getting other bands who want likes off you for their Facebook page, if anyone has the answer to this, please let me know, it may save me a lot of time. However I have discovered some real good bands out there, which I would have probably never listened too.  As I am probably one of the rare few that actually listen to a band before I decide whether to Fan them back or Like them or what ever. Anyway progress on the promo is slow but exciting and here's our next stage. We aim to release a track a week and this is our next track called Suppose You Suddenly Heard, a track inspired by looking through old 1950's public information films, which are excellent and funny go and have a look at a few http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/films/ Anyway here's the track http://www.myspace.com/mgblast39/music Leave a comment let us know what you think.

Been working on the artwork for our first song we released a couple of days ago, called Blast and here it is.

The artwork gets its look obviously from the title of the song, but also the fact that when we were writing it we were both going through rather bad times and this kind of sums up our attitude at the time. I also wanted to make a bold statement for our first song, which in my mind is all to do with conflict and human weaknesses.

Listen to our music here

I was messing around with Blender, which I'm still crap at using and came up with this logo totally by accident, decided I liked it, took it into Photoshop, messed with it a bit and as if by magic, I came up with the MG logo. I love a happy accident.

I was going to start blogging with some of my earlier work, but I've got so much stuff coming out for MG at the moment, that I thought I better show that first. So here's the first photo I've done to introduce myself and Glenn. It kind of represents what we might look like, to a computer, when we write our tunes. Scary really.

What's it all about.

So, what is this blog all about then.well originally it was all to do with promoting MG, a music project that a friend of mine decided to put together. However, I have also started to go on a little journey into the world of photography, videography and art. So I thought I would combine my experiences and combine my interests into one blog. So here we go. Well to start with I'm absolutely crap at drawing, so Photoshop was a complete revelation to me, I could now put what was in my imagination into reality, but it is been a great learning curve. Especially as at the same time I was learning about video editing and if this wasn't enough, myself and Glenn were discovering new ways to write music. So, so far it has been a very interesting journey. So why don't you come and join me.

New to Blogging and Music promotion

Well. this is all very new to me and not bad for someone who hates typing. Spent the whole day promoting MG on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/MG.blast, Purevolume http://www.purevolume.com/MG30096 , ReverbNation http://www.reverbnation.com/mgblast and last but most certainly least Myspace http://www.myspace.com/mgblast39 . Which is a complete arse to set up, it took me two attempts and much swearing and a change of browser to actually Finally create a page, was it worth it? I hope so. I'll go into more detail about what this blog will be about tomorrow as it's kind of late now and I should be doing work, but as I've already said I hate typing and that's what work involves at the moment, well until tomorrow.

Cheers.