Our last post was A Very Long Time Ago. That would be a good song title. Unless someone steals it first. I remember a very funny interview with Meat Loaf once, where he was complaining about how he had announced the title of one of the songs for his next album, and then somebody stole it. I can't actually imagine why anyone other than him would write a song with more words in the title than the song itself, but apparently it's a real problem for people like him.
Where was I? Oh yes. I think maybe I'm getting old, which would probably explain why I keep forgetting things. At the very least, it would explain what happened to my hair. And my teeth.
A lot of things have happened in the last year. One of these was that I turned 30, which was a bit of a non-event as it turns out, and we haven't written any songs about it.
We haven't written many songs at all, actually, but this is definitely something we are trying to remedy. As we've described many times before, we effectively have an album's worth of material which isn't a million miles/years away from being completed, but never quite seems to get there.
The old website mysteriously expired, so we started a new one. Why not go and have a look? It's almost finished.
I moved house. When we started working on Album Number Nine, I was based in Yorkshire, and Simon was based on the edge of Birmingham. Now it's even worse - he's in Southampton, and I'm in Los Angeles. The prospects of us ever playing live become ever more and more remote. Which is a shame, as I would very much like to do it one day.
These actually all sound like quite good excuses, but it's still frustrating that we haven't managed to finish anything for so long. Until now. We have the beginnings of a plan.
But that's all you're getting for now. I'll try and "blog" more often, and if I leave this post with an open ending, I might be more likely to write the next one. The suspense is for me, you see, not for you. That said, I could also leave this post with a half-finished sentence right at the
Hypernova are a synthpop duo from the UK, and here are some things which they have said:
