Feb
Bleached Highlights - Full Track List
Here’s the plan… Bleached Highlights will be released on Monday 4th of June 2012 on vinyl, cd and all that download malarky. Full track listing is as follows:
SIDE ONE
- Brown Bird Singing
- I Just Wanna Be Here (when I’m somewhere else)
- Bleached Highlights
- Thank You
- Round & Round
SIDE TWO
- If I Had Wings
- Written
- Hear My Name
- Something Wonderful
- Hideaway
Feb
Just me sitting at home in Argyll on a very rainy Wednesday singing If I Had Wings…
Feb
Progress Report
The world of Linden is swimming along very nicely at the moment - all pretty boring back room stuff and not worth going in to too much detail (mostly mastering and artwork kinda stuff). But with each new task complete, we get one step closer to the release of the album and even although it’s been pissing down for days in Argyll my happy mood will not be shaken… Hello Bleached Highlights, piss off rain!!
Feb
To Whom It May Concern
To Whom It May Concern at BBC Radio Scotland,
Why have you decided to axe The Janice Forsyth Saturday Morning Radio Show - one of only a couple of programmes that broadcast music during the day - a show that regularly plays and supports artists from across the Scottish music scene (both old and new)?
I love my local radio station, I love the balance it has between music, news, sport and chat and am a regular daytime listener but please, please, please do not sacrifice a wonderfully eclectic music and chat show for yet even more sport on a Saturday - The Janice Forsyth Show is a welcome break amongst the sports shows already being broadcast throughout Saturday. How much sport can a nation take!?!
Please let me know where to send my next demo tape for your consideration as I love having my music played on my national radio station - always a proud moment in my house…
Yours Faithfully, Joe McAlinden (musician and sports fan).
Feb
First Podcast on Mixcloud
Sitting in rural Argyll listening to a few tunes that felt good on the First of February Two Thousand and Twelve - something old, something new, nothing borrowed, something blue - all 12 tracks compiled to form my first ever Cloudcast (so I’m told!). There’s a bit of Gil, Love, Dennis, The Mary Chain and plenty more all lifted from the vaults of the McAlinden private collection. Have a wee listen xx.
Jan
decisions decisions
I’m back home in Argyll now having finished mixing all of Bleached Highlights and it’s the first time I’ve been able to listen to all ten songs back to back. I now have to sort the running order of the album for Monday so that AED can push on with manufacturing. I’m really struggling trying to put these songs in an order that feels good for vinyl (five tracks each side) and also works for compact disc. Maybe I should do two!!
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