Hello and happy new year to you (all).
I seem to remember that when we started this blog, I was going to write regular updates, just on the offchance that anyone in this or any other universe would be interested in what we'd been up to, had for breakfast, read in the Daily Mail etc.
X months later, erm, well, that hasn't quite happened has it? Road to Hell, good intentions, paving and all that. Personally, I blame the Daily Mail. Or maybe I was just lazy? Or could it be that muesli is a bit boring?
Anyway, at this time of year, it seems to be obligatory to do a review of the last year's highs and lows, preferably in a bitesize chunks top 20 format and then to make outlandish predictions for the year ahead. Do you see a bandwaggon? Well we're a band (some might say) and we're jumping right on it:
So, 2007 was pretty good for us. We released four singles from our Dust album, all packed with new songs and remixes, we were featured on the Electraparade compilation CD (buy it now!), we wrote and made demos of a pile (cohort? phalanx?) of new songs and did we remixes for Erasure and Marsheaux (not that they asked us to, mind). All this whilst trying to hold down normal jobs and occasionally have lives.
The whole MySpace / internet thing has been quite entertaining. I like the idea that anyone can knock a track together in their bedroom and then minutes later the whole world can either tell them what a steaming pile of manure it is, or propel it towards the hit parade. We've enjoyed the feedback that we've received about our songs and have been amused, encouraged, inspired and bemused in various measures by the comments that have arrived over the last 12 months.
And what of 2008? If everything goes to plan, we should have a new album out this year. The only obstacles in our way are (i) finishing the writing, (ii) doing the recording, (iii) doing the mixing and (iv) other obstacles that we haven't yet thought of. As I mentioned in the 'idle boasts of 2007' section above, the writing has been going well, so we will soon see how the album is shaping up. With a bit of luck, it will be a bit more upbeat and 'of the moment' than Dusk, but whether this constitutes an outlandish prediction remains to be seen.
Most importantly, you've been missing out on the weather updates for the last year, so here's the official summary for 2007: Summer: Wet (Jetstream allegedly too far south), Winter: Cold, everything else: Sunshine and showers.
My one and only new year's resolution: To try to make my contributions to this blog a little more frequent.
More this time next year ...
Hypernova are a synthpop duo from the UK, and here are some things which they have said:
