Posted by Jerry on March 18th, 2007 — Posted in Journal, Music
And what a glorious St Pat’s it was too! Both shows were packed out and the energy was high 🙂
At PJ O’Reilly’s in Civic (Canberra, Australia) we started at 1.pm sharp with a set of reels – Paddy Fahey’s Number 1 and Gravel Walk (well… sprint actually!) and that set the tone for the session.
At one point a troupe of Irish dancers invaded and called for a couple or reels – the dance schools usually use CDs so they welcome the opportunity to dance to live musicians – and we were quick to oblige.
We did a bunch of old favourites, like Black Velvet Band and New York Girls, threw in a few slip jigs and double jigs and generally had a great time. Then it was time for a quick pack up (ie hurl everything into Jerry’s van) and drive to Kingston to set up at Filthy McFadden’s where we played from 5.00pm-8.30pm.
Full Circle live at PJ O’Reilly’s
…not bad bowing technique!
Hmm – those mic stand drink holders are handy!
Full Circle live at Filthy McFadden’s
There was little time for a sound check, but the sound was quickly sorted – and it got better by the end of the first bracket. The audience were great calling out requests, getting up and dancing and having a great time. At the end of the evening we were called back for several encores and throughout the show there were queues outside waiting to get in – the place was at capacity crowd. Our energy was high and the pace quite blistering 🙂
Some said Jerry played fiddle like the Devil himself! This photo was taken mid-leap!
The Ashokan Farewell went over in classic style – an Army bloke came up after and said he had tears in his eyes…
At the end we were exhausted but bouyed up by the energy – and relaxed with our first pint of Guinness at the end of the night – with two shows we have to be disciplined and stick to low-alcohol beer otherwise our fingers fall off and that gets messy 😉
Happy St Patrick’s Day to you all – may the road rise up to meet you and the wind be ever at your back!
Cheers
Jerry
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Posted by Jerry on March 16th, 2007 — Posted in Journal, Music
It’s St Patrick’s Eve and the first of three shows was at the Hyatt hotel in Canberra. The audience was excellent and clearly had a great time – I know we did 🙂
We were using new speakers for the first time, and my newly repaired fiddle was awesome. We hope to get some video footage at tomorrow’s shows at PJ Oreilly’s (Civic) from 1.00pm-4.00pm and then Filthy McFadden’s in Kingston from 5.30-8.30. Watch this space for some YouTube footage in a couple of weeks!
Here’s some pix from tonight’s show
See you tomorrow!
Cheers
Jerry
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Posted by Jerry on March 16th, 2007 — Posted in Journal, Music
Here’s a great short vid on making an electric violin 🙂
Neat eh?
Happy St Pat’s Eve – I’ll be playing down at the Hyatt Hotel in Canberra tonight 🙂
Cheers
Jerry
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Posted by Jerry on March 16th, 2007 — Posted in Journal, Technology
It worked for a while, then one day I logged in and it stopped – no sound from YouTube videos! I tried a diagnostic check with Nortons, still no sound. I tried shutting down and powering down to clear the cache. Still no sound. Well, when all else fails, read the manual. I looked up the Mac forums to see if anyone else had had the same problem with a mac running OS X (10.4). And they had. And there was a solution.
For some reason, macs seem to reset their midi audio output sample rate to 96,000.0 hertz, and that cuts off the sound fro flash movies. Interestingly, iTunes still worked okay and so did the midid player on barfly, but YouTube videos were vision only. The fix is easy.
Open the Applications folder, then the utilities folder and find an app called Audio Midi Setup and double click to open it.
The audio output is on the right hand side – and you’ll notice a small blue rectangle with a down arrow. Click there and a drop-down selection appears.
Select 44100.0 hertz
And close it all up – now your YouTube videos will have sound again! Yay!!
Just thought I’d share that with you in case you’re having the same ‘issue’.
Cheers
Jerry
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Posted by Jerry on March 15th, 2007 — Posted in Journal, New media
In a classic error of form being conflated with content, it seems there is a proposal in the UK to ban phone masts from church rooftops – because new generation phones can access the internet and the internet might transmit pornographic images!
Of course this was relayed in a news medium that references some rather early electronic telecommunication systems – the Telegraph…
I wonder how long it will take the Anglican Church to realise that neither service providers, nor basic infrastructure providers are responsible for content on the internet. It also ignores the valuable service provided by mobile phones – in an era when public phone booths (landline) are fast disappearing from our streets. How then would an emergency phone call be made?
It also ignores the 2006 content analysis that showed that pornography is only a very small part of the web content – about 1%, which is about the same as the amount of Government information online. And do people really search that much for adult content? Actually only about 6% of searches. So the web is quite staid really. The study was conducted by Philip Stark – Professor of Statistics at University of California at Berkeley.
Cheers
Jerry
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