Hello, my name is Looptron.

New tune: Circus

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls... Looptron Heavy Defence Industries (in association with Dodger Pies) are proud to present a new tune for your listening pleasure!

Folks who attended the last gig will remember that I was joined onstage for the finale by the immeasurably delicious singer from my Other Band, a certain Miss Sarah Rogers. This is the little ditty we performed then, entitled Circus and rendered in glorious MP3 format for you to enjoy and share with your friends, family and co-worker contemporaries.

Get it from the Music page. Now!

And hopefully there will be some more "Looptron vs. ..." type tunes along soon.

Digital downloads now available.

Just a quickie...after an uproar from the legions of tight-fisted crusty old hippies that read this blog after my last post I have made the EP available for download. It comes as a zipful of 256Kbps DRM-free MP3 files (try saying that after 4 tequilas). Cheap as chips too - £2.50 for the lot.

See www.looptron.com/obsolete for details. Get them while they're hot before my hosting company chews me out for exceeding my bandwidth limit.

C'mon girls, lets go shopping!

CDs? Check. Jiffy bags? Check. Stamps? Check. Bloody awful animated gif banner ad? Check. 35 goes at getting the PayPal buttons to work? Check. A chronic run of insomnia to get the coding done? Check.

Ladies and gentlemen, I officially declare Obsolete Before You Start, the debut 5-track CD by your humble author to be on sale! Get 'em while they're hot from the shop:

www.looptron.com/obsolete 

Tell your friends! They make charming gifts. Or something. Er. There's only going to be a couple of hundred of CDs, like, ever but it'll be on iTunes and the like in the coming weeks (once the encoding monkeys have done their job) so you can probably buy it cheaper online and with a considerably smaller carbon footprint if you wait, you tight-fisted crusty old hippy you.

Remember: happiness is a warm credit card. :-)

The finished article.

CDs. In CD wallets. With stuff printed on 'em.

Happiness is.

Available in a store near you, er, probably never. But I will get some sort of PayPal shop up on the site as soon as I figure out the logistics. And it'll be available on CD Baby in 2 or 3 weeks, and it'll be on every download service known to man in at some point in the next 3 months.

Now... time to book a tour. :-)

Last Eff Emm

Right, the EP is listenable in it's entirety on Last.fm...just click the link below:

Last.fm - Looptron - Obsolete Before You Start - EP

Let me know what you think.

Have a good weekend.

Modding for dummies.

I spent Saturday afternoon making unnecessary modifications to my dinky little black guitar wot I use live (attached photo by Lee Marston). Actually, not entirely unnecessary modifications but the basic equipped pickup is a bit sharp for my tastes so it's now got a PAF Pro clone in it (which is the first time I've soldered together the innards of a guitar in a long time) and I've replaced the standard machineheads with a set of Grover Rotomatic locking tuners to enhance the tuning stability and make string changing a bit quicker. These Traveler Escape guitars are pretty fecking awesome in their own right, but if it's gonna be the main stage guitar it needs to be....well....special.

Therefore, I think the next step might well be a trip to the Sims Custom Shop to get a big frickin' "laser" attached.

Oh my.