Silver... Gold... PLATINUM!!!

ahhhh.. at long last my Platinum disc has arrived for a project I worked on in throughout 2008. I mention them in an earlier blog. They are a UK band called N-Dubz who have sold over 300,000 records in the UK alone!

It's a good feeling when one of the projects you are involved in exceeds everyone's expectations, congrats to everyone involved.

Check them out at: http://www.myspace.com/ndubz

Now HK artists, I am heading over your way in a couple of weeks.... so if you are looking for a western platinum selling producer/mixer then look no furthur..lol!!

The Death of Technology

So.... I am sat here at my buddies house using his PC (god I hate PC's!!!) as my Macbook Pro is at Apple Store ER. Can't make any music as my back up hard drive is 120 miles away at my folks.

It's amazing how crippled I am by the loss of my computer. Literally everything work wise has to be put on hold until I get it back.

I am now appreciating the Terminator movies a bit more... Rise Of The Machines!!! 20 years from now when they start giving computers A.I (Artificial Intelligence) we are all gonna be screwed!! Especially if they give them female A.I, your computer will be asking you to tell it how you feel and that you are not paying it enough attention, then when it is "That time of the month" it is gonna crash on you at every given opportunity until you do something "romantic". If it is a male computer it will just keep on sending you to porn websites whether you like it or not!

Anyway, I am at a loss what to do this week so any suggestions on what I should do until I get my Mac back would be greatly appreciated!!

Almost forgot... I got papped in HK

Just a quick one, almost forgot. I got papped when I was having a meeting with Hong Kong canto-pop stars 2R (Race & Rosanne Wong).

I was having a meeting with them in juice bar, never even saw the photographer!! Funny, been in London music boz meeting a few famous people and never been papped. Then go to HK and my first meeting with a pop act and SNAP!

Goodbye Hong Kong... but not for long!!!

So... I spent 6 great weeks in HK over the holidays, a mixture of family holiday and business. I met some great people like Robin Chi at Warner, Jun Kung, Race and Rosanne Wong, Jin, Brian Woo, Edward Chen, Hanjin, and of course all the guys at AnD!! Thanks Patrick for all the intros! And of course thaks to Spencer Douglas for running round like a mad man for me!

So it looks like I should be back to HK fairly soon. London is cold and grey and a far cry from the hustle and bustle of HK. I look forward to bringing my musical style to HK artists over the next year!!

I did manage to get in to the studio while in HK with Race and Rosanne and MC Jin. Have a look at the pics below. Race, I will be sending you the final demo of the track we did. Big shout out to Jonathan at This Music Studio for letting us use his very cool studio!

N Dubz go Platinum!

Just thought I would blog to let you know I am celebrating a project I was working on in the UK going Platinum... that's 300,000 units sold. The group are a band called N-Dubz, an urban Black Eyed Peas style group who surprised everyone at the end of last year with their debut album Uncle B.

Unfortunately Universal (UK) have disabled embedding of the video from YouTube, but here is the link to one of their singles called Ouch! Check it out!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggBaizvyxT0



Anyway, 2008 was a great year for me and 2009 looks set to be even better. Hope all of you have a great 2009 and stay tuned for news from me working with artists from Hong Kong!!!