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STORE REVAMP:

Finally added posters to the store as well as giving it an overall revamping. Folks should find it easier to use and hopefully a little better to look at too. Now along with Credit Card and Paypal, you can also use Money Orders which are available pretty much world wide as far as I'm aware. Any questions when ordering, email info@cs-songs.com

As well as all that, I've decided to to honour the shipping discount I offered over the Christmas / New Year period indefinitely - so basically anything you order from the store comes with free shipping!!

Check it out at http://www.cs-songs.com/store

NEW MUSIC:

Had some more fantastic sessions at Red Planet over recent weeks. Played some piano and finished off guitar on the songs we're doing right now, and it's sounding beyond what I ever could have hoped for already!! One of the songs is turning into quite a monster, growing and growing as monsters do!!

Mr Adrian Bryan was kind enough to come down and contribute some violin on this track for us which was fantastic. This was really cool for Skube and I, as Adrian was the guitar tutor at Claremont College when we were students there in the 1990's!!

Will be uploading some vids asap, and possibly be leaking audio snippets of the stuff too as it's completed!! Stay tuned!!

FECKERS:

Had some guitar sessions for The Feckers stuff recently at the house. Much thanks here to Steve Solomon and my Bro Mathew Szkup for loaning the gear. For a novice at this engineering stuff I think it went pretty good!!! Also thanks to my lady Aisha Polat for her help with engineering on this stuff too!!

Dennis Leeflang has been drumming up a storm on more stuff in the meantime, and we're now close to having all of the drum tracks complete!!

EXCLUSIVES:

I've recently tried a few things - give aways, discounted shipping, and even a happy hour via the websites to try and inject some fun and a little bit of humour into things too.

While you'll read about these things on all of my sites eventually, the quickest way to catch them is via Facebook, where everything is posted to originally, then the other sites automatically update with the info.

So feel free to sign up to my Facebook music page to ensure you don't miss out on any future offers!!

Hey just a quick check in after a loooooooooong few days, and weeks really. Things are flying at the moment, and things are changing too!! Has been an interesting, but rewarding time of late and I can't wait to see where it goes from here!!

ALBUM #2 - While we lost 3 drum tracks from July last year, it didn't hold us back at all, as we were able to revisit those tracks and make them even more killer than they were!! As it's my Bro and I bashing them out it's real quick and natural to do another take, so we didn't find this a problem at all retaking 3 out of 4 songs, and I'm pleased to report that after some fantastic progress over the last few weeks, the 4 songs basically need a couple of solos, piano / keys, and vocals and they're a done deal!!

Might be some vids popping up from these sessions during the week and I've just uploaded a few pics to all the sites.

THE FECKERS - The cat is now officially out of the bag that joining us on drums for The Feckers album is none other than Mr Dennis Leeflang who currently plays for Bumblefoot and Lita Ford, as well as running a fantastic studio out of New York where he's now based.

If you haven't heard of this guy, go right away to http://www.dennisleeflang.com/

As for the album itself, we're 7 tracks or so into the drums, with various other bits for pretty much all the tracks including vocals and guitars. Coming along fantastically!!

I'm going to be engineering some guitar parts for the album now and doing a lot more of the behind the scenes hands on stuff which is going to be keeping me even more busy on this stuff.

We still have some guests to confirm, but the stuff is turning out killer!!! We'll have a website that you can keep an eye on in the future!!

GROUPIE CHRIS!! - Got to meet a couple of musical heroes of mine recently - Marty Friedman (ex Megadeth) and Devin Townsend (solo, Strapping Young Lad).

Quite an inspiring time!!! Check out more pics in the gallery - http://www.cs-songs.com/gallery

Wow nearly 25% of the year is done and I haven't even said HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! I have been told I'm a little bit slow haha, but the truth is that I just haven't had the chance to update!!! Lots been happening on this end, but before I post the progress on everything I'm up to musically right now, I just wanna say that I hope you have a fantastic 2010 and beyond!!! All the best to you and yours, and I appreciate everyone that is along for the ride!!!

2ND ALBUM - Even though I haven't sold a million of the first one yet, all I know how to do is another one, and we started the drums for it in July 09. Am happy to report that we'll be doing geetars, bass, and basically as much as possible next week at Red Planet!!!! There's one song I'm particularly excited about giving the proper treatment to as it's a 3 songs in one deal that covers a lot of different styles within. Will post on how we go afterwards!!!

FECKERS - We've made some real awesome progress on this album, which is the one Richard Anderson and I are putting together with guest singers and players from around the world. At the time of writing we don't have a title for the album, but knowing that guy, one won't be far away!!

Anyway, we have drums for 5 tracks, all or most of the music done on 3, vocal tracks for maybe 5 or 6, some keys tracks etc. Considering we weren't even sure this thing would start when we hoped, to be almost half way into it is a great feeling!!

The songs range from good fun rock n roll to slamming metal and the occasional acoustic ballad as well. Working with all the different talent has been a great experience, and to the folks that might have let us down in the past when trying to get these songs together, we even have a special dedication for you!!!

AND BEYOND - Starting to slowly look at whats gonna follow the 2 albums mentioned above, and have loads of songs for what we have planned. Gonna be another old songwriting partnership hopefully doing some stuff in this time, but it's early days!!

MORE TO COME - As of ten minutes ago, more cool news rolled in, but unfortunately I can't tell just yet. But having said that, there's plenty to come, and it's gonna rock!!!

Ho ho ho and stuff!!!! Hope everyone is well!!!

For anyone who might not have had the chance to pick up "Pieces of Eternity" as yet, the time couldn't be better as we're offering free shipping for the festive season and right through until 01/01/10!!!

Place your order as normal through the store at http://www.cs-songs.com/store and let us know if you have any problems. May include other sweeteners as well for orders placed during this time!!!

Much thanks and all the best!!!

Hey all,

Been NUTS busy - haven't had a chance to update this thing in a while!! Am taking a break here cramming on songs to write an update on everything that's happened over the last little bit, so here goes!!

GIGS:

Over the last couple of weeks I found myself on the stage for the first time in 3 years!!! Very cool to be back I have to say!!!

First up I did The Roarhouse @ The Espy Basement Bar on October 21st. Hadn't attended one of these before so I wasn't sure what to expect!! Ended up being a real fun night though and met some great folks there!! Played this one solo, and included the songs "(I Can't) Start Again", "October 22", and "Soundtrack", all from my recently released album "Pieces of Eternity"!!

Next up, I was playing guitar in an acoustic trio version of Liminal on October 31st, as part of the Halloween Showcase Of Death, put on by the good folks at http://www.thataudioguy.net/, which was live streamed on the internet via their site, and also several community radio stations!!

The guys were all fantastic to work with, and got to see some great acts after our set as well. Played a handful of Liminal songs, a cover of "Total Control", and also the live debut of "Lost Soul" which is from my solo album also!! We look forward to hopefully being part of more of these events in the future.

The following gigs are still to come this year with more being worked on behind the scenes: November 13th @ The OC, Fitzroy, with Problem, and Josh Murphy's Filthy Soup, and November 30th with Hurb Jephasun and Corinna Jane @ The Good Folk Club, Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick!!

NOTE: The OC gig is with Liminal, and the Good Folk Club is as guest guitarist!!

RECORDING:

Been recording for The Feckers at Melbourne Records for the last few months, and in the downtime for that I decided to start nailing some of the acoustic tracks I have had laying around for quite a while now. It may end up an album, they may end up a couple of EP's, or possibly extra tracks. I'm as yet undecided on that, but have 8 songs done musically and it's coming along nicely!! More info as it happens!!

THE ALBUM:

Is slowly taking over the world!! Haha!!

Getting my music into some cool countries I never thought I'd ever have anything to do with - Germany, Italy, USA, UK to name a few - everyone's support is much appreciated!!! Had some cool support from the folks at 3cr Radio here in Melbourne, and currently talking about some more!! Anyone out there that thinks my music may suit your format, definitely get in touch!!

And on that note, I think that is it!!

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