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Today my album went live on iTunes

I’m not gonna lie – that brought a big smile to my face. It’s about €1 more expensive than it is to buy it direct from Bandcamp, but iPhone users can download it direct to their phones through the iTunes store, if that’s something that you wanna do, whereas with Bandcamp, you do really need to be at your computer, and not on your phone, to download it.

If you are enjoying the record, and use iTunes, then please consider rating the album and writing a little review that people can read on the iTunes store page. That would make me very happy indeed.

There are delays with the physical CD, and it’s looking more and more like it won’t be ready for the actual launch days. But sure, I’ll still play the gigs and celebrate this album going out into the world. If you’re around Galway or Dublin next week, drop in and listen to me playing songs from this record live.

At each of the gigs, there’ll be a small little choir group singing with me for a few of the songs. It’s different people in each city, and they’re basically friends and acquaintances, and strangers and twitter followers, who all said yes when I asked if they’d like to sing with me. I’m really looking forward to getting them up on stage with me. It should be a lot of fun.

I’ll also be playing some songs that aren’t on the new album, which I held over for the next one, or which have been written since this summer. And I’ve reworked some of my favourite covers too.

Death of a hard drive

Never the most enjoyable experience, but that is indeed what happened, and my backups weren’t as often as they should have been, so I’ve lost a bucket load of stuff, and I’m currently filling my lovely empty new hard disc up again. I had a lovely moment when the first album I added to my iTunes was the mixes of my own record. That was rather deadly, I gotta say.

But I’ve kinda made a half assed attempt at putting my iTunes music collection back together, as I’ve realised how little I listen to music on my computer anymore. I stick on Lyric FM, or play a vinyl record these days more than finding something on iTunes. I listen to CDs in my car, so for the last year or so, iTunes has been a way to do up mix CDs for the car, and that’s about it. I don’t think I’ll attempt to have the huge bloated music library I used to have, but instead, I’m gonna use this rebirth of my computer to be a bit more careful about what music I have on there, and maybe I’ll find myself actually listening to music on my computer again if I have to hit the skip button less often and value the music that I put on there more too.

This iMac has previously had a dead logic board within the first few weeks of me buying it, and was already named Jean Grey as a result of its miraculous rise from the dead that time. I guess the name is still pretty apt. I had a desktop of Jean as Phoenix for a long time. I guess it’s time I went with that again, or is that tempting fate?