Moving On [ December 2nd, 2008 ] Posted in » General

It’s easily been about 2 months and a lot has changed since i last come on here. First things first the due date for the new baby is coming round very fast and there is only a matter of weeks to go before i get to proudly say “I’m a dad”. I must admit that im starting to get the fear about the whole process, they give you these books to read about the whole pregnancy but to be honest i think its all just scaremongering. I get more scared after reading the books than i was before. On top of that we have yet to pick a name for the baby and there are still a few more items to get before the little fella is born.

Im in a new home now and its a lot bigger than the last one and its the perfect place to start the new family it also comes with a nice big chair in the living room where keri will sit in a certain way so that we can see the baby kicking on a regular basis. Its getting to the stage now where the baby can kick the sky remote of her belly.

The house also comes complete with a new fish tank (photos to follow) its a 95 ltr tank with 5 different types of fish and not forgetting a couple of shrimp for good measure. There is a steady fear that im gonna turn into a fish nerd but i don’t care as i find that in stressfull times its a good relaxant to just watch the fish get on with there daily routine.

We also have a new baby hamster called Dax. He is a feisty little fella, but to cute to hate at the same time. Even if he did bite Keri.

A new car will be on its way soon so im really excited about that now. The thought of finally being able to get back on the road to freedom again is too exciting and im sure that there will be a lot of photos to follow as we slowley travel the uk in search of great days out.

As for everything else its all on hold or not needed anymore. The music will still be there, im not gonna just delete everything but the idea of making music again might take a while to bring back to life as im gonna be more intrested in my new son. As for the websites they have all gone. I’m gonna keep this one but the rest have all gone. If im honest i dont have the time or maybe i cant be bothered to sit on here all the time working on sites when i have a great life now. I don’t wanna be one of them people that miss everything because of work. Im gonna be there for every moment of my sons growing up (Apart from the few hours of work ;))

To sum it all up, im the happiest i have been in a long while and i dont wanna mess this up.

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Everything Is Free

At what point do throw the towel in and call it a day, by this I’m talking about the music that I make. I have been making music now for over 11 years. I have won awards, I have had my music on TV, I have played gigs, I have even had an e-mail from somebody that played my music at a beach party. But at what point do you suddenly decide that you want to start selling music. In an ideal world I would like to be the same as everyone else sell all my music make my millions, live in a big house with a fast car and just live the life of luxury for a few years.

Is it wrong to care about what people think when it comes to buying music?

When I first started making music it was purely for fun until I got approached to do some music works in TV. Maybe it was this that gave me the bug to see more money in the music and make my millions from here. But who would actually buy the music? The way things are going at the moment with chart topping bands and the lack of sales it really seems pointless to even think that I’m going to make money when famous people are struggling.

After today I realised that I am wasting my time in the pursuit of happiness that comes with selling music. I set up a store on the site today in order to sell every track I’ve ever written on this site only, after a bit of market research I realise that in order to sell my music I would have to undercut the professionals meaning there is no way I could charge more than $.60 per song. After setting up the store I realised one major flaw in the plan and this is PayPal. For me PayPal is the only way I can accept money online. So I went ahead and set up my PayPal store, I even went to great lengths to test everything was working. But, this is one and a major problem and that is that whenever I sell a track for $.60 PayPal actually take $.38 as a processing fee.

After seeing this and playing about with my calculator I would much rather give away all of my music.

So from here on in and coming soon on this site all of the music I’ve ever made will be available for free download to whoever wants to download music, the only thing I am going to do is add a donation button on the download page so if you feel the need to donate some money as a way of saying thank you for my music means of doing this are there.

I hope and think I’ve made the right decision and I would like to go back to the same frame of mind I was in when I first started making music and that is … on making this music for fun why should I charge people to listen to it.

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