Day 141

Ha ha!

I sound so weak on the Feile FM thing. Oh dear. At the time I was completely unprepared, I didn't have much of an idea of how the interview was going to pan out, but on reflection, I should have made some notes and lead the conversation a bit more myself. Instead James (the Feile FM DJ) seems to be trying really hard to get a word out of me. Lots of mumbling and nerves. Yikes!

God. I hope I don't normally communicate like this with people.

Anyway, if you want to endure the slight awkwardness, you can listen to it yourself on here:
http://thevinnyshow.podomatic.com/entry/2010-03-09T10_40_08-08_00 (I'm on about 32 minutes in).

Also, I've been to justgiving.com and it seems my "widget" for letting all you lovely people donate to this here Sober For A Year thing is definitely ferked. As it's also not showing up properly on their website. So in the meantime I've just stuck a "badge" which you can also click. This will bring you straight to the Just Giving page where you can donate. All is grand, then.

Well, what's the happy-haps? I got back from Dublin early on Friday morning there, the studio basically decided that there wasn't enough work on Friday to justify me travelling down from Belfast, only to leave at 4:30pm anyway. Which was fine really.

I was given some final tips and people to chase up on my last day and got to hang out with the lads over a sandwich, listening to their stories of St. Paddy's Day shenanigans. Good times!

I'm now pretty keen to get on with chasing up some of these new leads and I reckon Post-Production is something I'd be quite comfortable doing as a full time job. To me, it seems like it's creative enough to be fulfilling, challenging and varied enough every day, yet it's also working with tools I'm quite comfortable with, so the stress levels of big projects and big clients would be more than manageable. I was expecting more clients in Dublin to be uptight and difficult to work with, just because that's the general image I tend to have of these big companies, but I was pleasently surprised. The clients that I seen were all quite experienced in doing this type of work, so they knew how to work alongside the post-production guys at the studio. There were good vibes generally. There was only one session that I was asked not to sit on because that particular client was pretty stroppy and from what I was told, I was glad to avoid that situation, but other than that: yes, I was convinced I could do well in this role, so it's great to see it for what it is.

There was such a good atmosphere at pretty much all of the sessions. A bit of fun and of course there's pressure, but people are all working towards the same thing, so it's a good pressure, it's exciting. All the sessions I sat in on, had people who were good banter. It says a lot for how the studio has established itself and their work history too I'm sure, I imagine some of the attitude from clients is to do with the very lush surroundings too and then of course a big part of it is the attitude of the post-production guys who have been building a rapport with their clients for upto 20 years!

So back in Belfast I've been working nights this weekend.
Today I'm doing some 'voice acting' for a mate's portfolio in Music Technology.
I was meant to be playing a gig at the Black Box tonight, but I think I'm now too late to be on the bill ... Still sorta waiting to hear about that.

In other awesomeness... My good friend (and Hexxed bandmate) Niall and I have been given the go ahead on a new monthly night in the City Centre! We're going to be DJ-ing and running the night ourselves, which is pretty sweet. We're both quite excited and keen to make it a big success, so I'm sure I'll be updating more about that soon!

Oh and the BBC might want me to do some live vocal + Kaoss Pad performance stuff for a TV show. Still waiting to hear about that though.

Meanwhile the other music projects are ploughing on. I've been neglecting my Doctor Lilt / solo electronic stuff a bit, though last night in work I made another .... 'song'.... erm... yea... Possibly a Grupo4 piece. We'll see...

That's all for now. Toodle pip.