Something about this website doesn’t excite me. I know that’s not exactly salesmanship - you might as well click off, huh? Well - I thought I’d put another blog up here and tell you what’s happening.
You know when you are excited by a website’s design and you want to explore and go looking around finding stuff? Well there’s HEAPS of stuff on here but it doesn’t thrill me like my old www.madhouserag.com which by the way is still up there - much outdated - if you want to see what I mean.
I want to have a front page with lots of buttons and little areas and spaces you can choose to click on. At first I liked this design with just the squares leading to different areas but it doesn’t grab me now. I also want to stimulate comments on my blogs so we can have forum-type exchanges.
Anyway ENOUGH MOANING. Tomorrow I’m off to Hamburg courtesy of HAMBURG PLANETARIUM and with One’s Wife, for two days in a posh hotel. Hooray, I haven’t actually been out of the UK for THREE YEARS would you believe. Not even to the Isle Of Wight. I used to be everywhere. Meanwhile, back at why I’m going, - it’s the relaunch of my audio-visual immersive experience VOICES IN THE DARK, - an adventurous interpretation of many of my songs and pieces of music in the form of a Dome-projected animation adventure. I wish it could be shown in the UK but it seems (a) there aren’t many Planetariums, and (b) the ones we have all think we only want to look at stars, and that Astrophysics is the only proper use for a dome projection theatre!
German director Terry Rudat and a team of brilliant CGI artists have used my solo records as a soundbed and let their imagination run riot. I’ve seen the production, - it was done a few years ago and financed by Dramatico, - but they have added a couple of extra songs (“Bright Eyes” and “Lady Of The Dawn”). Juxtaposed against some of my freakier orchestral and rock’n’ Roll moments, it makes a really stunning 40 minute experience. These guys are good!
At the same time I’m going to be having talks with a promoter about a tour of Germany (and possibly Holland) in late 2020, - probably just me and a piano and a string quartet. Watch this (or a space like this but better) for further details. This is the trailer from the OLD version. It doesn’t really give you enough of an idea of how phenomenally fab it is because it’s flat. (See link at bottom of blog). Also I’ll be talking to German media promo folks about the release in Germany of my forthcoming double CD/Digital album “Mike Batt: The Ultimate Collection". Boring title, but you have to call it what it is. No good calling it “Schizotarotxeroberlinphonia”. On the other hand…
The album will be released worldwide- which includes the UK - Hooray. Probably April or May.
Well, short of telling a joke or writing a recipe, (none of which you’d thank me for) that’s about all for now, so this is me stopping.
Well it would have been if I had stopped there but I didn’t. But this really is.
MX