A song for your-slop

[christh]

CD project: should we not think in terms of a DVD. Maybe it’s just for fun, or maybe it can be marketed through Splosh, but surely we need something visual? It could contain little sketches to illustrate the song, although if these started clean it would need lots of clothing changes and washes, but these are challenges to overcome. I think you could shoot something on videocam in an area 25’x 17, which happens to be the size of my garage.

Copyright:

To avoid this we need either to write our own material (possible, especially if it is a sort of rap song), do parodies of old stuff (When Father Papered the Parlour), or traditional stuff: folk songs (I laid her in the boggy boggy mud) or rugby songs (Old King Cole was a bugger for his hole). This is a very rich seam.

I could probably produce arrangements (busking sheets, words and chords), which could be distributed in advance.

Instruments
I prefer the idea of laying down the songs first (needn’t even to be at the same venue), and then miming over them, using tatty instruments. My drum kit would probably be all right if we didn’t slop paint about (foam, pies & custard are go), and it shouldn’t be difficult to find an old non working keyboard which wouldn‘t mind. Im not sure about guitars. They don’t have to appear in the final shoot but some instrumental presence would be good. The less polythene on show the better.

[Hayley]

What Bill has done in the past (and I quite agree about the Song Contest, mate!) is do close versions of modern songs. Near enough to recognise but just different enough to avoid copyright.

Saves having to do old stuff that is a bit wank. Sorry. I just prefer rock music.

Hayley

[andy250]

If you want to film in a location that is a tad cold get some blow heaters. They will heat the rooom up really quickly. So that you can not freeze to death while doing the event.


regards

Andy

[TottyMcGee]

<carefully dons silver outfit and Dame Christopher Biggins make up>

Splosh-ing! Na Na NaNaNa, NaNaNaNaNaaaa!

Now tell me that wouldn't work, especially with his 'milking the giant udder' dance.

Anyhoo..

Re. DVDs, we've looked into doing this at Wamdrogony, the sticky wicket is with the need to get it certified by the BBFC killjoys if you plan on selling it (or even distributing it). There is an exemption for films where the subject is "mostly music", but they aren't daft and won't let you use that as a loophole for selling naughty movies by sticking a load of hokey songs on the soundtrack. Music videos in any case are a ballache to produce, best to concentrate on one media at a time for the moment, we can always make videos later if we want.

Song wise, the "similar but not quite the same" type parody is a good way to go, along with any other original/old stuff anyone might want to bring to the project. I'm not too keen on the idea of the Splosh! rap (arrrgghh!), but talk singing and spoken word samples are fine and a big part of what I have in mind for my own tracks.

Live instruments; the miming n' sliming approach is a good way to go with a 'proper' band and we can certainly get hold of useless old instruments to muck up, otherwise for a more electronic appoach I imagine a couple of players behind the plastic with visual instuments like guitars and electric drum pads.