Welcome to Episode 154 of my podcasts The view from the crow's nest, and it is Tuesday the 17th of November 2020. If you hear noise in the background, it's because I'm making a cup of tea rock and roll. And so yeah, still fully join us over getting the internet, getting broadband connected yesterday and I'm now not taking it for granted, it's, it's wonderful. What I did do this morning is, you may guess I think I was talking about it before the last podcasts, died because the internet. We had all our stuff shipped over from the UK, which means I had my desktop computer, my bad boy, which is seven years old and is still a beast and I had it specked out when I bought it, so that I could do video production and audio production so it's a really good machine. And the problem is, for some reason, since I've got it here. The two monitors that are normally had it plugged into back at home in London. It doesn't work with the two of them the monitors work the cables work, but the graphics card doesn't seem to be working with two monitors Anyhow, I spent the whole morning faffing with it. Now that I got broadband I reinstalled windows so I lost all of my apps and programmes on it. I did all sorts of reinstalling no dice, I took it apart. I dusted it out, put it back together. Still no dice. So that's thoroughly disappointing because at the moment. I've got two screens on my desk and I can only use one of them. So I'm using my laptop with one of the screens, I ordered today this is very interesting story I know I ordered today to cable so now in a few days or by Monday when Amazon delivers it. I will be able to connect my laptop to the two monitors, so at least I'll be able to do that, and then maybe I workout way of doing the same thing with the computer eventually but it's just frustrating, but more frustrating as I spent the whole morning on it. You know, which is time that I could spend on other things. But, you know, there we go that's that's rock and roll. So this afternoon once I'd done that, I focused on music, again, yes, yes, yes. And so, principally, I was just tying up the current versions of a hole in my heart, and I'm not a jealous guy two songs from my upcoming album, a blind eye to love, so that I can put them in the lab, which is my member's club. This week, or this next week. So, if you want to support me if you want to hear. I think currently has about 30 weeks worth of music in there, then please do come and join the lab because that'd be awesome and then I could share these with you. But, yeah, so, I'm working my way and I'm really determined to, you know, bit by bit worked through that album and get it finished get it finished and get it out. And, you know, move on with other songs is not so much music they want to get through and I'm. As I said yesterday, I'm really so determined to focus on my own music my own art something I've kind of done a little bit of but I feel I've really neglected for the last bunch of years and now it's time to to resurrect that and really kind of fulfil my passion, you know what I really wanted to do and I've been sidetracked by other things. So to that end, I'm also, and this is also part of a business things which I'll come to in a minute, but To that end, I am going to start promoting my music again something I haven't really done. So, I've decided that I'm going to use a sort of three pronged approach. Number one, I'm going to do Facebook ads because I do swear by Facebook ads as a way of getting people to listen to your music, and also, principally sign up to your mailing list, so I can start growing that again. And the second thing is I'm going to have a crack I've never tried this before but getting my songs on radios, but particularly college radio. So I've got a list of radio stations from all over the world, college radio University radios and I'm going to work my way through the stations and see if I can get some play. We'll see. But for that I'm going to focus on my EP grip
