DJ Readman History of Record Shop Series and More

I have been air drumming a lot, recently.  The band i am in, The Projectiles, needed a second drumming, so i stepped upto the plate. I have no drum kit, no room, for one, reason i never took up as an instrument. What is air drumming No different to playing air guitar, although with air drumming, it helps you practising for when you have real kit in front you. Its hitting air and sitting in the position, you would do, if you were in front of kit. I found talking with drummers, who i have seen live and they recommended, Aerodrums What is Aerodrums? Good question, i went to find out...... This is essentially, taking air drumming to the next level for practising. May sound daft, but it helps out more with adding sounds.  This kit is software that connects to your webcam on your desktop/ laptop., comes with special sticks and together they create the drum sounds, without it physically being there. You position yourself, as if you were playing a real kit I thought, ah, £50...

Many people put down their favourite music and lists. I would have gone into that direction, but to be honest, there are too many. Its not the matter of saying, that bands is better than another, because, thats not the way i see it or it works either. Instead, i reflect on the year and the big changes that took place. As i have mentioned in previous blogs, i moved, finally, for the first time in my 40 years. I have a paid job, which helped me do this. Radio broadcasting does not bring in the rent, nor did gardening and cleaning, well not enough. this year was about moving to a flat, well twice, enojing that and going to a couple of gig, which i enjoyed. The radio side, had a few breaks with moving, still doing shows, thoughout the year. I went to local and national gigs, recorded them on camera, which is always fun. Met people off, Facebook, which is always a good thing, face to face. When i went to gigs, there is nothing like a live drummer. Seeing bands live, i love doing, althou...

/Over the past few years, i have grown to like video editing. I record a lot of video, mainly vlogs, reviews and a weekly preview for my live radio shows. I recently changed the format of the weekly episode to a "montage" of music video clips. Based on my first omontage, which features a segment of the band, The Shapes, i got asked by the lead singer to produce a music video promo Its called, Tom Petty 1980. This is the one                                                         Below the video the singer saw. I thought, Youtube is visual, It would be better to see more bands, in represented visually This took around 8 hours to complete. This includes finding the footage. The footage was public domain and use of one of the bands live segments Not long after this i was talking to another band about video promos. From this i got anot...