Vanessa and I couldn’t decide on a single shop to put a wedding list in, so I decided to make this here Wedding website. It is a list of all the nice things that we imagine that people will want to to get us! In time, we will add maps and other wedding details, but for now it is a list linking to stuff on other random shops and websites. Once people have claimed a gift, they should put their name against it by editing the item and putting your name in the “Bough By…” field. I hope people can work it out!

A sad day indeed, but it will soon be time for me to leave the band I have committed creative juices to since late 2004. That’s five years, three albums, three music videos, one single, half-a-gazillion demos and 54 gigs!

So the new Thumpermonkey record finally got finished. It is entitled “We Bake Her Bread Beneath Her Holy Fire“. Here is the artwork that I prepared for it. The look I was aiming for is bold and striking - an attempt at a classy and “iconic” feel (whatever that means!). The bird-headed woman speaks to the Aztec imagery that Mike Woodman enjoys so much, the birds are a nod to HP Lovecraft’s soul-snatching whippoorwills (as mentioned in Whateley, track 2), and the toaster is, well, an incredible looking toaster (and matched to the imagery in Proktor Cylex, track 4).

I have (almost) finished a profession CV site for my friend Rael Jones, who is a musician and composer for film and television. As a music freelancer he relies primarily on his IMDB page, but has increasingly been asked for a website by prospective employers. This site in meant to be sharp, simply organised and get right to the point - Rael’s music.

I have re-built the Thumpermonkey site in Drupal. Tthe site is now entirely dynamic and super-easy to keep up to date by any of the guys in the band. This is good because (a) we have a bunch of gigs coming up and (b) I’m leaving Thumpermonkey at the end of the year, so I can hand over the admin of the site to the rest of the guys knowing that the site will always look fresh and alive.

Fun and colourful site for my friend Jessica and her new homemade cake business: A Little Of What You Fancy. This is my first full public site with Drupal, and it works really well. Jess has a log-in which allows her to add and edit content (cakes) but all the admin garbage in the background is hidden from her. Still lots to learn, but I think this looks great as a first stab.

Olid in the studio recording their first self-titled EP with Umair Chaundry at Keynote Studios, Reading. Shot on Vanessa’s new little Flip Video doodad.