Friday, November 23, 2007

Are you still alive?!

Well, you may be wondering what's been going on with DLDown in the last wee while... well, here's some idea of what I've been up to anyway...

• A spot of recording! - studio versions of Romans 7, Icarus and Missing are all at various stages near completion, so look out for one or two of those on myspace soon.

• A wee bit o' songwriting. I'm sure everyone has different ways of going about this. My method (for want of a better, less precise word) usually involves lots of scribbled ideas on lots of random bits of paper lying around in my room.

Sometimes, the whole song grows and expands out of a sentence or phrase that I've heard in another song, or have subconsciously picked up somewhere else, the obvious examples being Farther Up and Farther In (from a line in C.S. Lewis' The Last Battle) and Icarus (which began as an extrapolation of a line I heard in a Phish song, The Squirming Coil). Others are an attempt at a different angle on a Bible story or passage, and still others are more closely related to emotions or circumstances I'm going through at the time.

Occasionally, some of these make it to the consolidation-into-something-coherent-and-singable stage, from which point the best ones pretty much write themselves, usually in the middle of the night when I really ought to be sleeping. Lilies & Sparrows is coming along nicely, and I'm hopeful that a couple more will be on their way shortly!

• Looking forward to tonight's gig - the first in a wee while. Should be grand!
J

Thursday, October 11, 2007

Going solo

Tim's moved to London (everybody say 'aaww'). Jo will be playing solo for the time being, while on the look out for some new people to jam with. Hopefully Tim will be able to join in again now and then...

If you're a competent musician or singer who happens to like our music and fancies joining in, then get in touch with Jo at band@dldown.co.uk and we can have a jam!

Monday, June 18, 2007

We've had quite a nice wee review on Cross Rhythms - check it out here.

Monday, June 04, 2007

Alright, who unleashed the frog?

Hi folks, we're delighted to announce the latest addition to our ever-expanding catalogue of live show downloads: Last week's gig at the Merlin, Edinburgh.

Thanks so much to everyone who came along for making it such an enjoyable experience for us - definitely our favourite gig so far! We loved playing for you. Download the show for free here.
J

Setlist
Icarus
Romans 7 ->
My Mind's Got a Mind of Its Own (Butch Hancock)
Loop Jam (as yet untitled)
Part Trust+
Frustration
Fly (Moxy Früvous) ->
Baker Street (Gerry Rafferty)
It's All In Your Mind

----set break----

Hitchhiker's Guide Theme* ->
Infinite/Intimate ->
Lazarus
Missing+
Puzzle~ ->
Ghostbusters Theme (Ray Parker Jr.) ->
The Final Countdown (Europe) ->
Puzzle
Farther Up and Farther In ->
Amazing Grace
Puzzled?

*first time played
+Jo solo
~contains section from Phish's "Twist"

Saturday, March 31, 2007

Download available

Update: Tuesday's gig is now available here.

Friday, March 30, 2007

Drunk dancing woman, you made our day.



Great fun gig at the Tunnels on Tuesday night, despite their usual utter confusion over the arrangements... Thanks so much to all of you who made it along, and stayed around until we finally made it onstage! We got a good recording, so working on adding it as a download now - will keep you posted - setlist available on our gigs page.

Wednesday, March 14, 2007

Another Aberdeen Gig

We're pleased to announce we have another wee gig lined up at the Tunnels in Aberdeen on Tues 27th March. Doors open at 8pm, and we expect to be on at about 10pm. Costs £3 on the door. Hope to see you all there!
J

Thursday, February 15, 2007

New batch of Puzzle CDs is here!


Yup, we're pleased to announce that Puzzle is now back in stock, in its full technicolour 7-cardboard-boxes high glory! Head over to our orders page to get yourself a copy!

dldown.co.uk update

Hi folks, I'm sure you'll have noticed the new look of the website. I haven't had a chance yet to test it all as thoroughly as I'd like, so bear with me (or better still tell me at band@dldown.co.uk) if bits don't work properly...

This is the new news/blog section, but all the older stories are still to be found here.

Jo