http://www.joshuavt.com it's all hear say anyway. Wed, 03 Sep 2008 13:48:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So the past couple of days have been spent at Canterbury Studios mixing the Outlanders record with the band and Jeremy Darby, the fantastically talented, big hearted, and dirty minded engineer. It's been a lot of fun, but also a a lot of work, more then some people realize. Over ... http://www.joshuavt.com/2008/09/03/getting-all-dressed-up/ I'm very lucky to have written some music for a great play called Norway Today, put on by everyone's favorite independent theatre company Theatre SMASH. It's a very affecting play revolving around the stories of two people who meet in a chat room and decide to kill themselves together by ... http://www.joshuavt.com/2008/09/02/norwaytoday-or-tuesday-september-9th-or-both/ For no reason whatsoverer, the strange blond creature on the left swung her shopping bag at me and hit me in the shoulder. No chance of it being an accident, because this little oompa loompa was about 3 apples tall and smelled like a wet bag of concrete. Plus, her ... http://www.joshuavt.com/2008/08/30/what-do-you-get-when-you-guzzle-down-sweets/ Today at 2 and again at 10pm I'll be playing with Kate Rogers on CBC 99.1 FM for the show Q. We're doing a little acoustic set and some good old fashioned talking. If you like music and the disembodied voices of humans check it out....... http://www.joshuavt.com/2008/08/29/spend-your-afternoon-with-me/ [audio:http://www.joshuavt.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/output-1-2.mp3|autostart=no|bgcolor=0x000000] http://www.joshuavt.com/2008/08/28/for-that-lonesome-cowboy/ Here's some beats from that fun little iphone app beatmaker I blogged about a little while ago that i made on various forms of transportation as we traveled around..... [audio:http://www.joshuavt.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/beat1.mp3|autostart=no|bgcolor=0x000000] [audio:http://www.joshuavt.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/beat21.mp3|autostart=no|bgcolor=0x000000] [audio:http://www.joshuavt.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/beat3.mp3|autostart=no|bgcolor=0x000000] BBC Manchester had a tv museum where I met this handsome gentleman. We became fast friends and I promised to keep in ... http://www.joshuavt.com/2008/08/27/beatmaker-makes-bus-rides-shorter/ I'm back from a super fun tour of the Uk with my good friend Kate Rogers, and I've got plenty of little aural snapshots to help me remember things. Here's a few that I've heard so far from London that stand out - - [audio:http://www.joshuavt.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/leaving-tube-camden.mp3|autostart=no|bgcolor=0x000000] Ah the tube. So fast, and so ... http://www.joshuavt.com/2008/08/26/sounds-like-london/ So for the first time in about 2 weeks the sun is shining in Manchester. The tour is almost done and it's been great. I spent about 8 hours in scotland and am thinking about buying a castle and becoming a lord. Not the lord, just a lesser lordly dude ... http://www.joshuavt.com/2008/08/23/its-actually-sunny/ London is a good time so far. I'm currently outside of a dental office getting strnge looks from people hoping to fix their stereotypicaly bad teeth. We've done a couple BBC shows, had some good pints, and learned some new words. I also got some new ties for 2 pounds, ... http://www.joshuavt.com/2008/08/15/stealing-ye-old-wireless/ I'm in London with no jet lag, it's amazing, I'm very happy. It also helps that I just had a crispy bacon sandwich wityh cheese and coffee. Everything looks and sounds as different here as I thought, but also strangely the same. U suppose that comes from the fact that ... http://www.joshuavt.com/2008/08/13/i-feel-like-a-human/