Fire Action! - White Dress video

Here it is! It's turned out alright, no?


Fire Action!, White Dress from Chris Newcombe on Vimeo.

We're still left with lots and lots to organise: we're aiming for an EP launch at the start of August, to go alongside a one week INTERNATIONAL tour (which will include both England AND Wales).

Obviously, feel free to re-post like kerazy.

Super Mario Galaxy 2 Review

It's very hard to talk about something you think is brilliant without just saying, "it's brilliant!" over and over again, so it's lucky Lewie lets me do more-or-less whatever I like when I write for him on Savygamer. I realise now that in this review of Super Mario Galaxy 2 that got published today, I spend more than half my time talking about the history of the series instead of the game itself, which is probably not the most balanced way of approaching things. Ho hum.

DON'T PANIC

I'm just getting excited about tenuous links to events in my life in the lyrics of old pop songs. It definitely doesn't mean anything.

Also: is the guitarist in this video the coolest ever? Or does he just benefit from standing next to a Paul Simon wearing a white t-shirt tucked into high-waist trousers?

Regardless, I wish I could pull off a hat like that.

How to Keep Busy (part one)

For reasons that for the moment have to be kept hush-hush, wink-wink, shush-shush, pinch-your-ear, look-at-the-sky, no-not-here-over-there kinds of quiet, I need to work on improving my knowledge of the independent videogame scene. The neat little video below of 235 free-to-play indie games has given me a terrifying indication of the scale of the challenge ahead. I've played barely 20 of the games shown. THE SHAME.

Yet if there's anyone capable of staying glued to their PC for hours on end, obsessively twitching at their keyboard, and trying to find the "looks-like-a-bog-standard-platformer-but-is-actually-a-paradigm-shift-inducing-wonder" game among them all, then I hope it might just be me.

Wish me luck.

"...Lit a Fire..."

1. Admire faraway paradise.
2. Start building bridge to farwaway paradise.
3. Spend ten years building bridge.
4. Forget where bridge was supposed to lead.
5. Burn bridge down.

Finally reached stage five today.

The Best Kind of Exhausting

I spent last weekend in Norfolk making a music video for the Fire Action! song "White Dress". The band - along with one phenomenally talented director/producer, one so-witty-you-could-punch-him Director of Photography, an unfailingly resourceful and creative Production Designer, and crucially a funny and beautiful selkie - spent two 20-hour-long days filming for the five-and-a-half minute long song.

I cannot begin to describe (largely because I'm still feeling the effects of the sleep deprivation) how excited I am at the prospect of seeing it all put together, so until I get back to the point where putting words in a coherent order is a little more effortless, here are a bunch of photos I took on my mobile phone (click 'em to see 'em in all their high-res glory):

Disregard Females, Acquire Currency

Compared to my last couple of videogame articles (that talked about foolish women and being all gooey-eyed over them) the piece that's gone up on B4HD today about the Playstation masterpiece ISS Pro Evolution is a lot more traditional. Hopefully that means "less self-indulgent", rather than boring.

You tell me.