The Home Made Hit Show

HMHS 116 - Open Mic at the Black Horse Pub

noreply@blogger.com (Tony Butterworth) — Fri, 16 May 2008 10:15:58 -0500

Thanks so much to John Poulton for putting this one together.

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The Open Mic Night takes place every other Thursday at The Black Horse on Gregson Lane. The next few Thursdays are the 15th and 29th of May and the 12th and 26th of June. It starts at 9.15 and finishes at 11.30. Other than there are no rules as such. Anyone is invited to bring along an instrument and play, solo or in small groups. If they wish to borrow a guitar there are several they can use. We set up two microphones and have a contact mic for the use of a fiddle player if required.

The age range of performers stretches from 12 to 65 (I don't ask ages!). Music ranges from metal (played) ascoustic to traditional folk. Many do covers but quite a few do their own material.

The acts with web sites either have CDs available (Trouble at Mill) or are planning to put one out (Mark Claydon) or would like to if they weren't so lazy (me). Pat (bass with Loz) is a member of band called the Rambling Riversiders and they play in the States regularly; I think Pat is playing in Nashville as I type. Rob and Susie's is done and they are awaiting delivery (exciting). Colin is in a band but I don't know much about them. These lofty ambitions do not tarnish the evening which is strictly fun, and for most rather boozy!

Susie Jones and Rob Kentell; www.myspace.com/susiejones10

Mark Claydon; myspace.com/markclaydon1

Trouble at Mill; http://www.troubleatmill.com/

Caroline Lovett; myspace.com/carolinelovett

John Poulton; www.myspace.com/johnpoulton

Gregson Lane Folk Club; http://www.gregsonlane.co.uk/

HMHS TV 10 - Oliver Southgate

noreply@blogger.com (Tony Butterworth) — Mon, 12 May 2008 21:19:05 -0500

This week an excellent video from Oliver Southgate of his song Get Me Out Of Here.

Hear more Oliver at Soundclick

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HMHS 115 - If You Wanna Say It Then Just Say It

noreply@blogger.com (Tony Butterworth) — Fri, 09 May 2008 17:00:33 -0500

Another, hopefully, great show for you this week.

Here's the books I talked about.

Songs:

Heart Failure - Sling MySpace

6 my 9 - Rob White (Riffmaster) Soundclick

Remembrance Day – Colin Gillman Website

HMHS TV 009 - Dave's Got A Pod In His Pocket

noreply@blogger.com (Tony Butterworth) — Tue, 06 May 2008 11:30:19 -0500

This time we have a short overview by Dave of his new Pocket Pod. No sounds but you get to see the unit and hear Dave repeatedly refer to the POD 2.0 as the Toneport 2.0

Check out the Pocket Pod at Line 6 Pocket Pod

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HMHS TV 008 - Toneport/Gearbox Overview

noreply@blogger.com (Tony Butterworth) — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:54:09 -0500

This week we give a run through to the mythical Toneport and it's Gearbox software. Finally those of you who don't own one can put a picture to the sounds.

Check the Toneport details at www.line6.com/toneport

The video is split into two parts as it went over 10 minutes

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Part 1 Windows Media Version
Part 2 Windows Media Version
Part 1 iTunes / Apple Version
Part 2 iTunes / Apple Version

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Part 1

Part 2

HMHS 114 - Scandanavian Adventures

noreply@blogger.com (Tony Butterworth) — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 23:13:58 -0500

Another musical show, fill with wonderful home made music and analysis interrupted by two guy rambling on.

A link to the Cajon demo from Tomas De Camino Beck can be found at HERE and his mathematical song with explanation HERE

Songs:

The Morrisons - You're a Fraud MySpace

Albert Forssell, Bill Mecca, Pete Young - Journey Underseas Soundclick

Bjorn Nilsen with Les Cotton - August Child Soundclick

HMHS TV 007 - Dave Criddle's bASS

noreply@blogger.com (Tony Butterworth) — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 13:39:36 -0500

This week, by request, Dave shows some bass playing techniques.

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HMHS 113 - Beck (not the famous one but the Tomas De Camino one)

noreply@blogger.com (Tony Butterworth) — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 17:56:45 -0500

This week we have an interview show (done by Dave, his first appearance in an interview show) with Tomas De Camino Beck (aka Matbio on the forums). Tomas talks about his songs and his band Automata.

Find Automata at the following links

MySpace

Automata World

HMHS TV 006 - Zoetrope Live

noreply@blogger.com (Tony Butterworth) — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 18:01:18 -0500

All 2090 forum members (http://www.2090.org/zoom/bbs/index.php) should enjoy this one, as should any who likes a good chuckle about home music making.

It's Zoetrope and his Roland EG-101.

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HMHS TV 005 - Dave "Bowie" Criddle Live

noreply@blogger.com (Tony Butterworth) — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 12:11:13 -0500

Well this was meant to be a different video but I somehow am having problems with my uploading.

No problem though, here you can see the great Dave Criddle performing his David Bowie cover show from a couple of months back.

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HMHS 112 - Glenn Wants To Know

noreply@blogger.com (Tony Butterworth) — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 15:10:03 -0500

More audio goodness and it's a long one. This week we address Glenn's "Beginner" questions. Play some songs and feature a guest segment from Inside Home Recording on time signatures

Check out the videos at Home Made Hit Show TV at Youtube

Definitely take a listen and subscribe to Inside Home Recording The best audio focused podcast out there. They feature lots of content on software, recording and audio techniques along with remix contests and much much more.

Songs:

Shadows - Paul Janowski Soundclick
Apologies to Paul for pronouncing his name incorrectly

Sequal - Eric Merrow Soundclick

Her Love - Tony Copping Gruvex.com

HMHS TV 004 - That Low - John Tully

noreply@blogger.com (Tony Butterworth) — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 21:58:17 -0500

If you want to stop my music playing click the Soundclick plugin to the left.

This week I am pleased to welcome John Tully aka The Cracks to the HMHS. John is the first person I was aware of making home made music videos and he continues to roll out high quality stuff (search out the one where he made himself fly for some real fun).

Find more John tunes HERE and HERE

Find more Cracked videos here at YouTube

There is a higher quality WMV version of the show HERE

Mac compatible M4V version HERE

YouTube HERE or below

All the Home Made Hit Show TV videos can be found on the Home Made Hit Show Channel

HMHS 111 - Win Something and Vegetables Talk

noreply@blogger.com (Tony Butterworth) — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 17:34:47 -0500

Welcome to a good solid audio show featuring great songs and songwriting talk. Plus hear the potatoes themselves talk.

Plenty of links for today.

A great read at the new songwriting blog Adventures In Songwriting

Read the interviews and other songwriting stuff at Songs and Sonics

Thanks for the longtime and ongoing support from The Indie Bible

Send an email with CONTEST in the title to win the EP and T-Shirt from The Simple Carnival

Songs:

Slide Away - Les Cotton lescotton.co.uk

Caitlin's On The Beach - The Simple Carnival SimpleCarnival.com

Genevive - The Tones Soundclick

HMHS TV 003 - Reaper and Addictive Drums

noreply@blogger.com (Tony Butterworth) — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 12:51:40 -0500

Note: If you want to watch the video then turn off the music from the soundclick player to the left.

Thanks to Gary Davies for this excellent overview of Addictive Drums with Reaper.

Download the higher quality Windows Media Version
and the Apple version

Your videos are greatly appreciated.

Links:

Reaper
Addictive Drums from XLNAudio
Gary Davies at Soundclick

HMHS 110 - Wichipedia (The Mike Wich Show)

noreply@blogger.com (Tony Butterworth) — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:04:14 -0500

Time for an interview with that songwriting wannabe Mr Mike Wich.

Various Links:

Music at Soundclick
His older Eljam music at Soundclick

Buy Off In The Distance

A Mike Wich LIVE !!!! Studio Tour

HMHS TV 002 - The Bees

noreply@blogger.com (Tony Butterworth) — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 14:08:20 -0500

A very professional video from Dave's band The Bees.

Check out the Website LeisureBand.com which is the new name for The Bees

Full WMV version is availale here - HMHS TV 002 WMV version

HMHS TV 001 - Midi Basics

noreply@blogger.com (Tony Butterworth) — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 14:26:15 -0500

Well here we go, episode 1 of the short format Home Made Hit Show TV.

This show is all about you, please make and send me your 2-8 minute videos that have anything to do with music. It could be a music video for your song, a video of you playing live, playing in your bedroom, a short overview of the guitars you own, a tour of your home studio, an overview of some software (Camstudio is free and great for this).

For this first episode we show some MIDI basics. How to connect and what a software synth is and how it can be used.

You can download to your iPod or iTunes from the link above or download the higher quality Windows Media Version from here Home Made Hit Show TV 001 WMV

and of course there is youtube which is embedded here or you can access the channel from this link Home Made Hit Show TV Youtube Channel

Expect to see 1-2 videos per week

HMHS 109 - Just Say No

noreply@blogger.com (Tony Butterworth) — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 20:56:13 -0500

Blues Crossing

South Hill Project

Another exciting home recording and songwriting episode.

Announcement Coming Soon !! Home Made Hit Show TV, after some looking around and thinking we've decided to launch Home Made Hit Show video shows in a short format. Each show will feature one segment plus sometimes a user video. So if you want to make a video of anything related to home recording, perhaps mixing, or playing your guitar, or a video song analysis. Please send them in to homemadehitshow@gmail.com

This week we have the usual banter + Dave plays a couple of commercial songs to use as examples for songwriting inspiration.

Songs:

Performance - South Hill Project Bardo Music

Waves - Downriver Downriver Soundclick

One More Mile - Blues Crossing MySpace

HMHS 108 - Hello I'm Here

noreply@blogger.com (Tony Butterworth) — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 16:37:15 -0500

Hi again to another high volume, low quality Home Made Hit Show. Listen to my analysis of my own song (talking about yourself pursuing your own narcissistic hobby ???) along with more great tunes.

Songs this week:

David Gilhooly - One More Time

Jeff Yankauer - Good Luck Soundclick

The Great Potatoes (aka Albert Forssell) - French Fries Overdose
Albert's Soundclick or visit the Great Potatoes

HMHS 107 - It's a disaster I tell you

noreply@blogger.com (Tony Butterworth) — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 17:32:15 -0600

We struggled with expectations after last weeks great show and the great response so decided to go the other direction with a total disaster. Dave and I recorded a show but my audio failed to record so Dave stepped up and quickly recorded a replacement show - which I then mixed. Apologies in advance for any flaws.

Songs this week:

Andrew Spicer – Savior of the Erroneous Power humblefly.net

Euroamerica - Work of Art Soundclick

David Cooper - Not To Blame Songplanet

HMHS 106 - Leap Leap Leap for Leap Year

noreply@blogger.com (Tony Butterworth) — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 00:45:35 -0600

Welcome to the leap year edition of the Home Made Hit Show featuring a free bonus song.

Links for the week:

RPM Challenge Record your CD in February with a lot of other people
Jamstudio Your personal online band
This Week In Tech Technology podcast, check TWIT 133 for discussion of the state of the music biz
Jonathan Coulton Entertain yourself with someone who succeeded doing what you do
Mike Wich "MUSICIAN"

This weeks song:

I Feel - Lee Szwast Soundclick
Didn't You Dwayne - Gary Davies Soundclick
Keep Your Friends Closer - John Tully / The Cracks Soundclick
Hipshake - R.Mutt MySpace

HMHS 105 - Alone Again, Naturally

noreply@blogger.com (Tony Butterworth) — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 10:30:07 -0600

A short and sweet solo show this week. I've been busy with the RPM challenge and Dave is moving office. Always looking for guest hosts for weeks like these so let me know.

Apologies to Mark Tupuhi for incorrectly naming him by his old band name St. Lucy. I read the full email after I'd already recorded the show.

This weeks music:

Dick Langford (and guests) - Without Company Soundclick

Mark Tupuhi - Wings of Steel MySpace

Charles Evans - Hunt The Moon / Don't Forget Soundclick

HMHS 104 - It's a Challenge

noreply@blogger.com (Tony Butterworth) — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 17:03:10 -0600

Another talk and music show.

Links:

The RPM Challenge Record a new album in February (listen to my song above left on the player)

More Joe Pop stuff at JoePopToons.com Click on the image above for a bigger version

Songs:

Is It Love - Papa Satch ReverbNation

Body In The Woods - Famico / JungChoi Soundclick

Resurrection - Good Question GoodQuestion.ca

HMHS 103 - I meant to do that

noreply@blogger.com (Tony Butterworth) — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 17:16:53 -0600

Hi there, another week and finally a Criddle Tune.

Check out the songs and listen to me sing the same line over and over again in my vocal mixing segment.

Songs today:

On Your Way To Hell - Mike Caro sent by Tom Reilly-Devon (Soundclick)

Terrifying Heat - Dave Criddle Soundclick (though Dave needs to post his songs)

Frontline - Rogue Thief Website

HMHS 102 - Content, who needs content

noreply@blogger.com (Tony Butterworth) — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 17:03:28 -0600

Back to the regular old audio show today.

My favorite lyrics book.

Have fun making music from your desk with JamStudio

Watch indie videos at www.greendragonmedia.com

This weeks music:

Envy by Ghasms www.myspace.com/ghasmsband

A Candle In My Window by Daniel Waite Soundclick

Don't Try To Find Me - Gary Davies & The Tones Gary at Soundclick