A Musical Adventure (how to organise a gig)

A music documentary about Adventure, a Christmas gig organised by 16 year old Dan Simpson in 2013. Dan talks about This Venture, an unconventional music group, the process of organising a gig and the challenges such a eccentric group face in this endeavour.

adventure again!

So I posted a few photos from the Adventure gig, now here's some videos!

This Venture perform Emmylou (First Aid Kit cover)

The Regal Narwhals perform Step Into Christmas (Elton John cover)

This Venture perform O Come, O Come Emmanuel

This Venture & The Regal Narwhals perform Winter Winds (Mumford & Sons cover)

This Venture & The Regal Narwhals perform Jingle Bells.

There is of course a playlist of these videos and a playlist of all the music I've filmed for my friends. Merry freakin' Christmas.

This Venture: facebook, twitter
The Regal Narwhals: facebook

adventure!

As a regular reader of my blog, you probably know my involvement with a certain Dan Simpson and a certain musical collective This Venture. Well, this weekend Dan organised a lovely little gig with the title adventure. It was Christmasy and fun and all organised by the bearded boy himself. Well, not entirely by him, that would be insane but I think he's taking most of the credit but is being most humble about it. I think I've expressed my pride in him about a million times.

This Venture did a gig (October 12th, part one)

So This Venture did an awesome gig a few weeks ago and I was cool enough to film it for them. I'm in the midst of editing the whole set but four of the songs are online already. Check em out!

This Venture: Twitter + Facebook

This Venture rehearsals

So you know I take photos and video this musical collective I know, right? Of course you do, when do I ever shut up about Dan and the gang. Well, they've been rehearsing recently for a gig tomorrow and I've been sitting there causing distraction as usual...

Here's a video I did last week to promote them! It features Dan, John, Shanon and Matt and was super fun to film, edit and just generally be involved with. It's a great environment to be in with these guys and their music.

Let's talk about Dan.

If you know anything about my real life (eg, you didn't just stumble across this blog when googling 'rupert graves cute') or have glanced at a blog post called Project Busking, you'll know I have a friend called Dan. So let's talk about him. He's got a great beard, all his instruments are left handed and he plays them to a decent standard too.

Because we are friends, I tend to spend a lot of time doing things for him. I'm not complaining, any excuse for me to get a camera out, I'll bloody take it, but yes. We make a lot of videos together. Well - he'll mess around and I'll put the hard work in. Just kidding, it's the best.

So, let's recap all the little projects I've done for him, a kind of master post, though I have more I haven't finished yet.

Project Busking

My normal college alarm rang out through my bedroom and I could have screamed. I trick myself every morning I have to wake up with this method; having selected the most irritating alarm sound on my phone, every morning I have to hear it makes me want to throw it into the nearest river. I guess you could say it works but it also ruins my mood. If I manage to fall asleep again, it'll start playing again twenty minutes later.