So a new year is coming around. 26 are experiencing a few "New Beginnings". We are touring "the world" for a good chunk of the first 6 months of 2010... we already have shows and festivals booked for Canada, USA, UK & Hong Kong... it all feels pretty crazy. We are also rereleasing "Births, Deaths & Marriages" through our new US & Canadian label "C12 Records". The weird thing I have found over the years of playing music is that just before something huge happens in your music career it feels like you are stagnating! I have know idea why. Call it calm before the storm... call it what you will but it is an unnerving feeling. I always have a horrible feeling this time of year anyway because it has always felt like life has been put on hold for a month or two... especially since I started working for myself about 6 years or so ago.
I'll be on here much more next year.... I hope that the other guys will too because it looks like we have much more to report from now on. I hope you are all well, I hope you haven't got a terrible hangover today and I hope you have a great year next year! I am sure 26's year will be full of high highs and low lows but I am looking forward to them all and looking forward to meeting some new people around the world.
Cheers
Nick | 26
Dec 27, 2009
Sep 27, 2009
26| Seeing great shows
Seeing great shows from people you respect (or even people that you don't really respect) is always really interesting. I have been finding inspiration from a lot of female artists recently. And what female artist do is always going to be different from male artists.... I don't know why it just is. But anyway I am moving away from my point.
My point is.... as an artist you always learn a lot from other artists if they are great performers.... I learnt a lot from seeing Clare Bowditch last night... not sure what , or even if it applies to me but it was a lesson all the same. Thanks Miss Bowditch.... if I figure out what you taught me I'll credit you on the next cd sleeve. ;)
Nick | 26
My point is.... as an artist you always learn a lot from other artists if they are great performers.... I learnt a lot from seeing Clare Bowditch last night... not sure what , or even if it applies to me but it was a lesson all the same. Thanks Miss Bowditch.... if I figure out what you taught me I'll credit you on the next cd sleeve. ;)
Nick | 26
Sep 11, 2009
26 | Ego & Insecurity
I have recently been thinking about the relevance, or more to the point irrelevance, of our blog being about the recording process of our project 26x365. 1. Because it is hard enough to finish the 3 songs every 3 months little own make a blog entry both informative and witty. And 2. It seems to me that the blog has become more about "A Day in the Life" of 26... highlights, lowlights, rabbits in headlights etc. That led me to the thought... what do we do with this blog once or if we finish the project?. It would be a shame not be able to keep on talking about what we are doing and where our heads are at on any given day.... maybe not for the interests of whomever might read this but maybe for us... Nick, Drew Ross & Iain. A life diary, mainly concerning the band but maybe concerning our lives outside the band. Who cares.... as the hippy's in my neck of the woods would say "go with the flow.... man."
So I had another thought.... "wow more than one thought in a day?" I hear you say. I have been playing music with people for quite a while and the recurring theme I have always witnessed with artists, and I am no exception to the rule, is they all have a element of ego mixed with an element of insecurity. It may not be just artists that have this but I think it's fair to say that artists have this in some sort of over hyper exaggerated way.
So what I am getting at is this..... I say we keep the idea of 26x365 being the "A Day in the Life" idea and add a slight "subtitle" element to our blog. So Drew...I put this to you. (Oh wow I should be a songwriter or something). How about you rework the header for our blog to be titled and subtitled....
26x365 - ego & insecurity
and then it can become a chronicle of our ego & insecurity.
Drew, Ross & Iain.... if you think this is a shit idea then you can go and get fucked! Actually.... I hope you don't think it's a shit idea... do you don't think I am shit? ;) You see what I did there? Clever hey?
Ego & Insecurity.
So here is my promise to you.... a new and improved, sometimes witty, always honest and definitely badly written blog about 4 people that are in a band that happen to be called 26.
Love Nick
xo
So I had another thought.... "wow more than one thought in a day?" I hear you say. I have been playing music with people for quite a while and the recurring theme I have always witnessed with artists, and I am no exception to the rule, is they all have a element of ego mixed with an element of insecurity. It may not be just artists that have this but I think it's fair to say that artists have this in some sort of over hyper exaggerated way.
So what I am getting at is this..... I say we keep the idea of 26x365 being the "A Day in the Life" idea and add a slight "subtitle" element to our blog. So Drew...I put this to you. (Oh wow I should be a songwriter or something). How about you rework the header for our blog to be titled and subtitled....
26x365 - ego & insecurity
and then it can become a chronicle of our ego & insecurity.
Drew, Ross & Iain.... if you think this is a shit idea then you can go and get fucked! Actually.... I hope you don't think it's a shit idea... do you don't think I am shit? ;) You see what I did there? Clever hey?
Ego & Insecurity.
So here is my promise to you.... a new and improved, sometimes witty, always honest and definitely badly written blog about 4 people that are in a band that happen to be called 26.
Love Nick
xo
Sep 6, 2009
Qsong picture & sizzle real.
We finally got a picture from the QSong awards. None of us stopped to think 'hey, maybe we should take a photo'. Also a little sizzle real from the night. I know there has not been much posting lately, but we are charging ahead with exactly 11 trillion things. Bare with us.
Jul 27, 2009
Part_2 [DONE]
We finally took a deep breath, and let them go.
Hear them at:
26theband.com
myspace.com/26theband
We are still waiting on iTunes approval. But will let you know when they are available.
Enjoy
26
Hear them at:
26theband.com
myspace.com/26theband
We are still waiting on iTunes approval. But will let you know when they are available.
Enjoy
26
Jul 20, 2009
Bit of a funny one for us.
The ghost of musics past brought this little gem in for me. It's a little known band that predated 26 called Floodboy. Lead guitar, vocals, samples, keyboards and percussion are all done by our very own Nick.
It's tapetastic!
DF26
It's tapetastic!
DF26
Jul 16, 2009
Perth, delays and Qsong awards
hello lovely people. How are we all? Are we well? excellent!
It's about time we said a little hello, and let you know what we are all doing.
Well so far, June/July has been epic. Good epic, but epic none the less. To start with, we are behind on the album by a couple of days due to life getting in the road. We all seem to be uber busy at the moment. But I suppose that's just part of this whole experience. If everything was on time and perfect, it wouldn't show anything more than our extreme timetabling skills, and how boring our lives are.
So Part_2 will be out on the 26th of this month (gee. Who would of thought we'd pick that date). Believe me when I say it will be worth the extra fews days wait. We love these songs, and can't wait to have you all hear them.
So that's the 'delays' talked about. Now onto Qsong.
We have again managed to charm the judges enough to be a finalist in the Qsong song awards. We are up for best Rock song of 09. Completely took us by surprise. We have been entering the band in whatever showcase/competition we think we may stand some kind of chance in, so we sort of forgot about the qsong submission until they told us we were a finalist. so WOO to that!
Now onto the 'perth' component of this post.
We have also been asked to play at the One Movement festival in Perth. Now THAT'S got us all excited. It will be our biggest festival so far. Having not been to the One Movement festival myself, I'm not too sure what to expect, but I am SO glad that we are going to have the chance to find out.
Now for some 'touchy feely' stuff.
I LOVE how the band is traveling at the moment. We have coped a lot of flack and criticism from various people, because of the goals we aim for, and the way we operate the band. I will be the first to admit that we probably don't do too many things by the 'rockers handbook', but I don't necessarily think that's a bad thing. The 'old rockers handbook' is old, smelly, beer covered and torn now. We are all about the 'New Rockers PDF' which you can edit on the run, or send overseas, or present to multiple people at one.... you get what i mean? It's vague, but there is a point in there somewhere. Maybe the way we do things is not for everyone, but it works for us. So what if people in Brisbane don't really get us, or know us!? America does! So what if we don't get airplay on Triple J!? Gotham Radio in NYC is playing us, and NBC delivered our song to 6 million people in America alone. So what if we haven't played at the Zoo for a while?! We are about to fly to Perth to play a festival, and hopefully then to the states shortly after (fingers crossed for CMJ). Get my point?
I'm in a bit of a - HA! FUCK YOU! IT'S WORKING! - kind of mood. Apologies if I'm offending any readers. But it's really really satisfying to see our labour of love start to give us back some love. It's cost us a lot of heart ache, sleepless nights, lost time with our loved ones, money we don't have... but now our mistress that we call music, is starting to pay us back. It's recharging us, and driving us forward with even more conviction and confidence. It's showing us the love we so dearly want to see from it. It's working, and it's a really satisfying feeling.
Enough dribble for now.
Talk to you all before the 26th
Drew and the 26ers
Final band member update
Nick's chopping fire wood.
Ross is writing ring tones about sexing up someone
Iain is gigging where they give him free dinner now
Drew is at WAR with the CRAZY BITCHFACE woman above him. 'We're here to stay bitch!!'
It's about time we said a little hello, and let you know what we are all doing.
Well so far, June/July has been epic. Good epic, but epic none the less. To start with, we are behind on the album by a couple of days due to life getting in the road. We all seem to be uber busy at the moment. But I suppose that's just part of this whole experience. If everything was on time and perfect, it wouldn't show anything more than our extreme timetabling skills, and how boring our lives are.
So Part_2 will be out on the 26th of this month (gee. Who would of thought we'd pick that date). Believe me when I say it will be worth the extra fews days wait. We love these songs, and can't wait to have you all hear them.
So that's the 'delays' talked about. Now onto Qsong.
We have again managed to charm the judges enough to be a finalist in the Qsong song awards. We are up for best Rock song of 09. Completely took us by surprise. We have been entering the band in whatever showcase/competition we think we may stand some kind of chance in, so we sort of forgot about the qsong submission until they told us we were a finalist. so WOO to that!
Now onto the 'perth' component of this post.
We have also been asked to play at the One Movement festival in Perth. Now THAT'S got us all excited. It will be our biggest festival so far. Having not been to the One Movement festival myself, I'm not too sure what to expect, but I am SO glad that we are going to have the chance to find out.
Now for some 'touchy feely' stuff.
I LOVE how the band is traveling at the moment. We have coped a lot of flack and criticism from various people, because of the goals we aim for, and the way we operate the band. I will be the first to admit that we probably don't do too many things by the 'rockers handbook', but I don't necessarily think that's a bad thing. The 'old rockers handbook' is old, smelly, beer covered and torn now. We are all about the 'New Rockers PDF' which you can edit on the run, or send overseas, or present to multiple people at one.... you get what i mean? It's vague, but there is a point in there somewhere. Maybe the way we do things is not for everyone, but it works for us. So what if people in Brisbane don't really get us, or know us!? America does! So what if we don't get airplay on Triple J!? Gotham Radio in NYC is playing us, and NBC delivered our song to 6 million people in America alone. So what if we haven't played at the Zoo for a while?! We are about to fly to Perth to play a festival, and hopefully then to the states shortly after (fingers crossed for CMJ). Get my point?
I'm in a bit of a - HA! FUCK YOU! IT'S WORKING! - kind of mood. Apologies if I'm offending any readers. But it's really really satisfying to see our labour of love start to give us back some love. It's cost us a lot of heart ache, sleepless nights, lost time with our loved ones, money we don't have... but now our mistress that we call music, is starting to pay us back. It's recharging us, and driving us forward with even more conviction and confidence. It's showing us the love we so dearly want to see from it. It's working, and it's a really satisfying feeling.
Enough dribble for now.
Talk to you all before the 26th
Drew and the 26ers
Final band member update
Nick's chopping fire wood.
Ross is writing ring tones about sexing up someone
Iain is gigging where they give him free dinner now
Drew is at WAR with the CRAZY BITCHFACE woman above him. 'We're here to stay bitch!!'
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