Oops
Reblogging my friend’s lovely lady bow shop has messed up my page
OH WELL
nnnthat’s what friends are fooooorr…
Visit my shop?
Do it y’all! If I was a girl I’d totally buy ALL THE BOWS.
Y’know what I might buy one anyway…
Who likes sunshine and bass together? I sure do. I hope you do too. I had a lovely time making this video…
Like/reblog as you see fit! Have a good one.
xx
A thought…
I reckon because everyone spends so much time looking down at their phones now (including me), the human race will evolve over the coming millennia to have absolutely beautiful heads. Not faces, they won’t matter anymore. And eye contact won’t be a thing anymore. We’ll communicate by text, saying things like “oh baby, that scalp you have is so hot.. hehehehehe”. Yeah. Bye!
Oh and erm
Also I realise that probably seemed hugely out of the blue, but those close to me know what I said was true haha. I just hide it well in general. Alright bye again..x
Yeah
Tumblr is always the place I go when I want to get deep and borderline-emo things off my chest haha.
Basically for the last 24 years of my life (yes that’s errrr… all of it) I pretty much haven’t been okay with who I am. I mean that with how I look and how I am as a person, all that stuff. Everything really.
But I’m starting to be okay with all of it. I had a revelation recently - I realised that it’s not actually my decision. It’s not actually my right to decide whether someone is allowed to be attracted to me, to think I’m funny, to dig me in general. I’m not becoming confident… I wouldn’t go that far. I’m just saying I’m coming to terms with the notion that not everyone thinks of me the same way I generally think of me… Yeah!
Feels like a positive step. It’s nice.
Alright see ya!
x
Help!
Ohh Tumblr. It’s been so long but you’re always there for me.
I need your help. Seen as how I’m going to be performing my music live soon, I’d like a little exposure of my current release ‘Can’t Sleep In Silence’. It’s available on iTunes, Amazon, Spotify, and Routenote Direct.
If you don’t wanna buy it (perfectly understandable) you can listen to it for free on the Routenote page, and Spotify of course.
It’d be nice if people know about it before I started playing it loudly whilst thrusting wildly in the faces of the people at the front. That won’t happen. Or will it!?
If you are reading this and don’t know anything about me, FEAR NOT. I will give you the most basic of run-downs.
I am a man. There. That’s it.
Nah. I’m a solo bass player from the UK. I write instrumental music that is bass-lead, in a rock setup. It isn’t as pretentious as it sounds, I promise! I just like writing songs. I don’t try to show off or any of that nonsense. It’s just songs wot I writed and wotnot.
Now.. I am looking specifically for music blogs on Tumblr to review my music and give me a little exposure. However, I’d still love to read reviews from people who don’t run music blogs. If you just like writing about music every so often, I wanna hear your opinion too. If you like music then give my EP a listen and tell me what you think!
Thanks for your time and hope to hear from you soon with your reviews and suggestions for who to get in touch with.
I fancy you.
Nick
Few things get me as excited as new music
That feeling of “omg this is awesome”, that can’t-get-enough feeling.
I JUST LOVE IT ARGH.
Sexism.
I absolutely bloody hate it.
Especially in the creative arts; and particularly music.
Raise your e-hand if you have ever heard or read someone say this, or something similar: “She’s a pretty good guitarist, you know, for a girl”. I would be incredibly surprised if it’s anything less than 99%. Having a sister who plays guitar and sings, I know first hand how often it gets said.
Which century are the clowns who say things like this living in!?
It infuriates me beyond belief.
Take the incredibly talented bass player, Tal Wilkenfeld, for example. The fact that she’s a woman literally means nothing. It has no relevance to her ability. Yet when you peruse them internets, finding videos on YouTube, the comments are infested with these cavemen spouting things like “can’t believe a girl is better than me”, “she’s good for a girl” etc.
I’ve tried to think, you know.. I’ve really tried to think about what properties and characteristics women have that could possibly make them less apt for playing an instrument than men.
- Smaller hands? Yeah maybe. But that’s only the very slightest of hindrances. It just means there’s a tiny bit more movement required. It’s nothing.
- They should be in the kitchen? You should probably close yourself off from society because you are a complete prat.
- Boobs? Nah. Unless a woman was to play the bass or guitar so high up that the main body of the instrument was across their chest, squashing their boobs a bit. That would just be uncomfortable though, surely? It wouldn’t actually hinder their playing. Apart from the fact the bass would be so high that the blood supply to the hands would be cut off. Nobody plays the bass that high for good reason. And I play my bass bloody high up… AND I have manboobs! There’s another thing! What’s the difference between a woman with boobs playing guitar or bass, and a man with manboobs playing? Literally nothing.
I’m running out of ideas, you guys. Help me out, please…
Another kind of sexism that annoys me is when the talent is just ignored.
Tweets, comments on Facebook posts, and YouTube videos.. You see it everywhere:
A great song, solo, or whatever is performed. Emotion pouring out of her soul. Singing or playing absolutely from the heart, with great talent and technique to boot. And yet.. the comments are plagued with “omg shes so hot” and “lol i like how her boob hangs over the guitar”. And my personal favourite; “marry me”. I will however say that I’m not referring to musicians who play up to their sexuality. You can’t really expect anything but morons posting about tits if the musician has her tits pretty much out in the video.
Anyway. If you write “marry me” and think you come across like a human with regular brain function, you seriously need to re-evaluate your life. It’s just a ridiculous thing to say isn’t it? Yep, awesome, she’s a very talented musician and she’s very pretty. Should we leave it at that? Maybe you should just keep it to yourself. You’re supposed to be enjoying the music of this person and her looks should be irrelevant. I just imagine the authors of these comments are sat with their pants down, head tilted ever so slightly, dead behind the eyes, drooling from the corner of their mouth, dick in hand. It’s pathetic.
Depressingly, I don’t think it’s going to change for a long time.
It’s a fact that the vast majority of musicians in the limelight are men. There is no escaping that. I’m just saying that one day I want there to be an equality in musical opinion which, unfortunately, does not yet exist in general.
This is not a patronising post in which I’m patting female musicians on the head and saying “come on, you can join our club” or anything like that. Far from it. What I’m saying is that I don’t want there to even be a “club” kind of mentality. There is music and only music. When you’re listening, you don’t know if the person playing it is a man or a woman. It doesn’t MATTER what is creating the sound! Just the sound itself!
Hopefully I’ve put my points across well…
…and these infantile pissants will one day realise that they are in fact infantile pissants, and change their ways. I doubt it… but hey, I can dream.
