Shining a little light on The Lampost story
Over ten years ago now one of my
brothers and I decided to convert our parents garage into a home
studio. My brother had a friend with a studio on the south coast that was
being forced to close. We bought the live room from them; dismantled
it, transported it half an hour up the road and re-imagined the
pieces into a new creative space of our inventing. Naturally, the
process was slightly more drawn out than I've presented here. I'm
sure our parents haven't forgotten their side of the story!
The night we finished the conversion we
were sitting around in the living room, probably eating celebratory
ice cream. Suddenly there was a huge crash. Everyone's first thought
was we must have somehow undermined the structural integrity of
the house and caused some terrible disaster. We ran around looking for the problem. Nothing was wrong. Then we realised it was
unusually dark outside. The problem was a late-night motorist finding
the lamp post outside a near-immovable object. It stopped his car but
not without splitting into three pieces and crashing to the ground.
Thus our new studio was christened The Lampost.
Sadly, since then, our plans of musical world
domination have been largely unfulfilled. The Lampost has become the
home of Hellyer's Puppet Workshop. (It's currently filled with foam
and more variations of fun fur than ought to be legal.) However, we
have finally linked up for a collaboration, remixing a track for an
online competition. Even if, technically, The Lampost has had no part
in the production we thought we'd honour it by naming ourselves in
its honour.
If collaboration implies my brother and
I have a broad base of shared musical taste this is misleading. We
agree on a couple of bits of Coldplay, a lot of Chicane and would
both confess to a childhood appreciation of the yellow and black
stylings of Stryper. Beyond that there are gulfs between what you'd
find on our iTunes 'most played' lists. But in music, as in so many
areas of life, it is possible to set aside differences to work
together. This we have done; turning a decent piece of hip hop into
what we're calling a Euro-house banger!
You can listen to the remix here, and
if you like what you hear then consider voting for us in the
competition.
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