I went along to Havering Folk Club last Wednesday after a week away on holiday and tried to do a version of one of the new songs I haven’t finished yet. I know It didn’t work out very well, partly because I don’t have the lyrics memorised yet and I tried reading from a crib sheet on the music stand, which has never worked out for me in past and probably never will. I can sing and play at the same time, sometimes I can sing, play and read at the same time, but not it seems in front of an audience, standing up and without reading glasses. So I’ve uploaded the podcast versions of the unfinished songs to youTube instead. The one called “Untitled 1″ in the episode 3 shownotes is provisionally called “Trevellas” now, and unfinished 2 is called “Summerhouse” but I also have a plan for combining the two songs into one single work that would be longer and more complex. We’ll have to see.

Sitting On The Bank

To recompose my composure, finding myself with a capo on fret 4 I decided on the spur of the moment to sing “Sitting on the Bank” which is a simple song I wrote when I was about 15 or 16 and thinking about leaving home soon. While uploading I noticed that the melody is developing slightly even now, I’m not sure it’s correct to call it a revival though, as it’s never really been out of the repertoire.

The Mighty Quinn

After the break and with the list of floor singers completed there was a little time left and Pep kindly asked me to do another, so after 3 pints I decided to do a singalong that everybody knows though it turned out not everybody at Havering Folk Club knows that the Mighty Quinn was a Bob Dylan song. The Manfred Mann cover version was better known in the UK in 1960s and afterwards.

Subscribe in iTunes to the podcast feed using the url

http://andyroberts.me/?feed=podcast

Here’s the podcast player for listening online to my Andy Roberts podcast prototype number 2:

You can also download the MP3 audio file which is around 26Mb in size and just under 30 minutes in duration from this link

AndyRobertsPodcastprototype2.mp3

The full video file of the show is available over at Ustream.tv where the live podcasting event takes place on Tuesdays at 7.00pm UK time

Podcast Prototype No 2 Video

Podcast Prototype 2 Show Notes

Show notes and information for prototype 2 broadcast and recorded on June 15th 2010.

There were five songs performed during this show, including one instrumental, all using the 12 string guitar.

Waiting

Title: “Waiting”
Music and Lyrics by Andy Roberts, first released on The Andy Roberts Tapes

The Nutmeg Tree

Title: “The Nutmeg Tree”
Music and Lyrics by Andy Roberts, first released on Album 1

Mazet

Title: “Mazet”
Music and Lyrics by Andy Roberts, first released on The Andy Roberts Tapes

Instrumental

Title: “Intrumental”
Music by Andy Roberts, first released on The Andy Roberts Tapes

I Shall Be Released

Title: “I Shall Be Released”

Song and Lyrics by Bob Dylan 1967

Interpretation Andy Roberts

I had an idea about turning the Weekly Ustream.tv show into a podcast and started putting it into practice.

So last Tuesday instead of just recording some of the individual songs during the webcast for uploading to youTube, I recorded the whole half an hour or so of the show, songs and talking, and saved it using the ustream record system. I was fairly happy with the way that went from a performance point of view, it worked better for me than premeditated songs and faffing about with song tit;es description and tags in the middle of a broadcast. The experiment was to see what I could do with the resulting file. I downloaded it to my Mac – ustream provides a file in .flv format (Flash) and when I clicked on the downloaded file it opened an application I’d never seen before! Mpeg-streamclip was able to export in various formats including quicktime, Mpeg4, and audio only. So far so good. The quicktime version allowed me to quickly edit out the five songs from within the video and save them individually as .mov , all ready for uploading to youtube.

So this meant that with a small amount of effort I can use ustream for the live streaming show, record it all in one go, and still have the songs available in youtube for embedding elsewhere and so on.

But what about the podcast?

Ah, well I went away for a few days, so now I’m getting around to it.

The audio podcast is here:

http://andyroberts.me/wp-content/podcast/Podcast-prototype-1.mp3

with an RSS feed here:

http://andyroberts.me/?feed=podcast

and the video podcast is is still hosted on ustream at

http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/7526414

also embedded below

But this still doesn’t count as a podcast yet until I have it set up as a series you can subscribe to in iTunes or the audio player of your choice. Fortunately I still the rest of the month of June to get that boxed off, since this is still the prototyping period, and I’ve set the goal of getting started for real in July.

Here we go again:

Songs in this podcast:

The Wreckers Prayer

People Are Strange

Cormorants underneath London Bridge

Here Comes The Sun

The idea was to produce something shorter and cheaper than a full album, more like an EP really. So there are 4 songs with a total playing time of around 27 minutes.

These are demo versions of the 4 songs songs, recorded and mixed in Garageband then burned onto good quality recordable CDs in a slimline jewel case with a printed sleeve that includes track listings times and some notes by Linda Hartley who produced the CD for me.

The Wreckers Prayer
Winter in Andalucia
Back in The Field
Gernika

Back in The Field

Title

Back in The Field

Runtime

4:27

Views

11

Title

The Wreckers Prayer

Runtime

6:27

Views

18

Title

The Wreckers Prayer Andy Roberts Havering Folk Club

Runtime

3:33

Views

27

Title

Back in the Field - Andy Roberts at Havering Folk Club

Runtime

3:36

Views

25

Title

The Wreckers Prayer - Andy Roberts

Runtime

3:19

Views

16

Title

The Wreckers Prayer - Andy Roberts - Walthamstow Folk Club

Runtime

4:38

Views

851

Title

Gernika Live - Andy Roberts at Havering Folk Club

Runtime

9:57

Views

162

Title

Winter In Andalucia - Andy Roberts

Runtime

7:00

Views

64

Title

Winter in Andalucia - Andy Roberts

Runtime

7:54

Views

111

Title

Back in the field

Runtime

3:53

Views

14

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