The Dark Alternative Music Composer

My 6 year old son Jake joins me for this week's episode where we talk about Roblox and specifically the game Piggy. Things get out of hand (what did I expect?) and we finish the show with some improvised and truly nightmarish music played on cheap instruments. Welcome to hell!

I emerge from my families 10 day Covid self-isolation, blinking in the bright daylight, to bring you this podcast episode. Just when I thought lockdown was over, we had to do another 10 days because my son got Covid from school and this time it was even worse because we couldn't go out for walks or nip to the Co-Op right across our street - it's what the old-timers used to call cabin fever.

Today I'm going to have a right rant about The Cranberries song "Zombie" - I mean if you're going to put a song into a big budget movie like Army of the Dead then you should at least know what the song is about right? Jeez Netflix and Zack Snyder, talk about insensitive!

This week I'm talking about my new album release Shadow of Chernobyl, not to be confused with the 2007 video game of the same name. Well to be fair the video game is called S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow of Chernobyl but it's close enough to make me excited about the strange coincidence of walking into a charity shop an hour before recording this very episode to find and buy that very game - £3, what a bargain.

Ok, this is a pretty poor quality recording because I'm driving while rambling - I did warn you that I would be recording this podcast anywhere and everywhere in episode 1 and it's beginning to happen already - a toilet recording is only a matter of time now. And talking of toilets, in this episode I chat about the year 2020 and a curious thing that happened to me during the first lockdown.

We're talking Elvis, groupies, death metal and indie movies in this episode - all good clean family fun, well maybe not that clean and maybe not really suitable for the family, but it's fun nonetheless.

In this episode I talk about the indie crowd-funded video game documentary 'Heart of Neon' that I'm currently scoring. It's a film all about the legendary programmer / video game designer Jeff Minter and his many creations - I'm a massive fan of Jeff and his games / lightsynths so prepare for some serious fanboying from me.

Welcome to my new podcast. Let me tell you a little bit about this podcast and then attempt (and quite possibly fail) to explain exactly what dark alternative music is.