Hello everyone and hope you're all staying safe, healthy, and sensible during these unprecedented crazy times we're having around the world at the moment. As I'm sure you've heard, the UK (much like the rest of the world) is now on lock-down for the next 3 weeks (minimum) with no unnecessary leaving of homes or travel in hopes to stop the spread of the coronavirus pandemic, but fret not, I'll still be offering (almost) all of my remote services at JabunAudio as usual from my home studio. While you're stuck at home and need your tracks mixed or mastered or your animations post-produced (butchering the terminology there I know) I'll still be here for all your audio needs! Looking forward to working with you and seeing what silver linings you make from this current cloud we're all under!

And on the topic of lock-down, not only has Better Than The Book's debut gig been indefinitely postponed, but due to the current regulations, I can't even meet up with the band, or even take my planned downtime/holiday for Easter, so JabunAudio will likely be open for longer than usual for this time of the year (make the most of that!). On brighter notes for general news this week, I've been keeping busy composing demos for the upcoming Jabun album(s) which are now surpassing 77 minutes of demos for new projects! There's still a tonne of ideas I'd like to explore but I'm starting to settle on a theme for at least one upcoming album so perhaps I'll concentrate on that soonish. Exciting times! In other news, there's the final of the current Better Than The Book live rehearsal videos to share with you today so let's check that out below!

Another LIVE & LOUD full song play-through video to share with you today from Better Than The Book's first full band rehearsal back in December, and this time we're back to the Two Years On album for "Cathode Ray Days" in full for the finale of this live rehearsal video mini-series! Enjoy some TV nostalgia (amongst other things) below:

Hi everyone and hope you're staying safe and healthy in these rapidly changing and uncertain times. It's been a mixed week here at JabunAudio as you'll find out in a moment, with much to celebrate and some things to be disappointing about too. On the bright side of smaller updates, I've been back to my usual Jabun experimental music making which has been incredibly fun and exciting this week pushing my limits and the current folder of demos to over 62 minutes in total now! Still many more ideas I'd like to explore before settling down to properly record and mix an album (or more), but it's a refreshing time to make music at the moment.

The rest of my week has been dedicated to almost constant social media work with various announcements and updates to give, but I think things will be slowing down soon (out of my control) which is good for my mental health at least (I think). I think I need a break from the current world... it's dire out there (and looking through the window of social media / the news / internet...). Onto the main news for this week, let's get the not so fun stuff out of the way before getting into the better updates. Here we go!

First of all this week, it is with mixed emotions that I must report less than a week after I excitedly announced it, that Better Than The Book's debut gig on April 11th in Haywards Heath (Sussex, UK) has been indefinitely postponed by the event organisers due to COVID19 concerns.

Given the current times, I fully support their decision for the safety and comfort of the attendees, staff and entertainers for the evening, though of course it saddens me that it'll be longer until we can hit the stage.

I'll be sure to share updates as and when I receive them and hopefully we'll be able to make the future rescheduled date when it comes around. Keep up to date on the events page for the time being:

https://www.facebook.com/events/892633854540874/  

And until then and always, stay safe, be kind to each other, and keep on skankin'! 

Next this week, another LIVE & LOUD full song play-through video to share with you today from Better Than The Book's first full band rehearsal back in December! This time we're moving onto the Hopes and Dreams album for "And I Fear" and as with the last track, this would have been literally the 2nd time we'd have played this together (the first being a few minutes before). Enjoy!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8OgLGLfms0
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Line-up:
Nick Standing: Composer, guitar + lead vocals
Eamon Standing: Harmonica + backing vocals
Sam Brown: Bass + backing vocals
Andy Forman: Drums

"And I Fear" and the rest of the Hopes and Dreams album are available on all major digital distributors as well as the Better Than The Book Bandcamp page:

https://betterthanthebook.bandcamp.com/

Or of course you can pick them up if you haven't already when you become a supporter on Patreon, complete with the full Better Than The Book discography and more when you sign up! With the project going live (though with the current state of things it could be a while), we could use all the support we can get to push it as far as possible, and another set of $5 early access rewards was just posted on Monday too (more on that in a moment) so come join the community:

https://www.patreon.com/NickStanding

Just one more of these videos to come next week before we move onto something different! Subscribe to the BTTB YouTube channel to get them fresh off the press, and I'll see you next week for another one! 

Finally this week, some early access $5 Patreon rewards have just been sent out and an updated rewards schedule for March / April / May has been made! You may be thinking, wait... it's not the final Wednesday of the month and indeed you're right, but it's time once again to mix up the Patreon rewards schedule for some new music which means the $5 & $10 patrons have just been granted extra early access to not 1, not 2, but 3 Patreon exclusive bonus tracks! 

Become a $5+ patron for instant access to all those tracks on top of all historic rewards for your tier:
Become a patron: https://www.patreon.com/NickStanding
Get these rewards: https://www.patreon.com/posts/34612358

I'll not be saying what the tracks are here yet (that's for the $5+ patrons to know), but with a new batch of tracks completed comes a diversion from the usual first and last Wednesday of the month Patreon reward schedule, so here's an update on what's to come over the next few months!

Firstly with this new $5 reward out which covers March and April's rewards there will be no new $5 rewards in April, only new $1 and $10 rewards as follows.

First Wednesday of April:
$1 patrons will receive the 1st of the Better Than The Book bonus tracks
$10 patrons will receive another demo & article from the upcoming Jabun album (delayed March reward)

Friday April 24th:
$1 patrons will receive the 2nd of the Better Than The Book bonus tracks + another bonus track (early May reward)
$10 patrons will receive another demo & article from the upcoming Jabun album (early April reward)

There will also be no extra $1 reward in May since it was given at the end of April.

You may be wondering why April 24th, and that's because the reason for these bonus tracks is that it's my 30th birthday! They're nothing too special (or extra special depending on how you view it) but all 3 tracks will be exclusive downloads only for patrons (though they will be available for streaming on YouTube as well)! I hope you enjoy something slightly different and fun to start my 3rd decade of living and look forward to seeing what I'll create in the next decade to come!

With that schedule lined up, it should be back to the usual schedule and the Jabun back catalogue for the end of May with $5 & $10 rewards on May 27th and $1 rewards on June 3rd. There are still however 2 new and bonus pieces of music currently in the works with the aim of releasing this summer, so I'll keep you updated on any changes to the schedule! It's certainly set to be an exciting few months!

Become a $5+ patron to be among the first to listen to these 3 new bonus tracks and grab all previous rewards for your tier when you sign up including the full Better Than The Book discography!

https://www.patreon.com/NickStanding

And that about wraps things up for this week's news. Crazy times around the world at the moment so please do take care of one another and try to keep busy with fun things. I'm not sure what the future holds at the moment, but I'll be continuing to make music and provide services as JabunAudio for as long as I can (though there will be some Easter downtime as usual). Next week I think will be a very different week to this one, though you can be sure there'll be the final BTTB live video (for the moment) to share at least! Until then, I hope you have as good a week as you can, stay safe and healthy, and thanks as always for supporting JabunAudio, Better Than The Book, Jabun and my various projects. Keep calm and take care!

Hi everyone and hope you're having a great week so far! It's been a super busy one here with a little bit of music production work on the upcoming mystery cover song, but mostly Better Than The Book LIVE show practice and a tonne of admin and promotional work. Some huge news to share today as well as a new video and more so let's get stuck in with this week's updates:

First of all, after almost 8 years of the project and more than 3 years of people asking for it, Better Than The Book will finally be hitting the stage on April 11th at the United Services Club in Haywards Heath (Sussex, UK)!

It's set to be a crazy good night with a load of other pop punk bands from the local scene (including Lights, Camera, Attraction! for which I used to play bass), and all proceeds for the night are going towards MacMillan cancer support which is always good too. The event starts at 5pm (I'm not sure when we're on), and all the details can be found (or asked for) on the following Facebook event page! Check it out below:

https://www.facebook.com/events/892633854540874/

Now I know many of you reading will be halfway around the world and won't be able to make it, but for those you who are in the area, the event is ticketed and tickets (like the one above) must be purchased in advance apparently, so if you want to join in the fun and get through the doors go get those tickets quickly from Ben or Bex on the Facebook page above and I look forward to seeing you there for a night I'm sure will not be forgotten! It's gonna be a good one!
    
Next this week, I have another LIVE & LOUD full song play-through video to share with you from Better Than The Book's first full band rehearsal back in December! This time we're moving onto the Two Years On album for "Undead Education" and truth be told, this would have been literally the 2nd time we'd have played this together (the first being a few minutes before) so please excuse the roughness around the edges! We definitely messed up the ending a bit but hope you enjoy it nonetheless, it was fun times anyhow! 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICptI6D7Q9M

Line-up:
Nick Standing: Composer, guitar + lead vocals
Eamon Standing: Harmonica + backing vocals
Sam Brown: Bass + backing vocals
Andy Forman: Drums

"Undead Education" and the rest of the Two Years On album are available on all major digital distributors as well as the Better Than The Book Bandcamp page:

https://betterthanthebook.bandcamp.com/ 

Or of course you can pick them up if you haven't already when you become a supporter on Patreon, complete with the full Better Than The Book discography and more when you sign up! With the project hitting the stage in less than a month now, we could use all the support we can get to push it as far as possible, so come join the community and grab some tunes:

https://www.patreon.com/NickStanding

Only 2 more of these videos to come over the next month! Man how time flies... Subscribe to the BTTB YouTube channel to get them fresh off the press, and I'll see you next week for another one! 

Finally this week, some more cool news to share: looks like GG from the Hopes and Dreams album made it onto a Spotify playlist! Thanks so much to NeverEnoughMusic.com for sharing the tunes, and check out the playlist below:  

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1ZAVMLJco8G18mT3stwPfG  

And that about wraps things up for this week! Lots of BTTB practice for me to be getting on with next week, as well as some very soon to come Patreon reward posts to sort out, and music to continue writing and producing when I have the time! Not sure what new and exciting things will be reported next week, but there'll certainly be another LIVE video to share at the very least! Until then, I hope you have a great week to come, remember to grab a ticket for the gig on April 11th if you can make it, and thanks as always for supporting JabunAudio, Better Than The Book and my various projects! Take care and enjoy the music! 

Hi everyone and hope you're having a great start to March and enjoyed a fun 303 day if you celebrated! It's been a super busy week here at JabunAudio finishing up not 1, not 2, but 3 bonus tracks and their artwork in time for April and my 30th birthday (ergh...) as well as doing mix adjustments on that upcoming cover song I mentioned previously, and some proof listening work for a phenomenal new track by World Beyond! With regards those bonus tracks, there will be another $5 Early Pigeon Patreon announcement coming very soon once I've uploaded and sorted all the files so keep your eyes on Patreon for that! Away from making music, it's also been a busy week practicing the Better Than The Book LIVE stuff (more on that in a moment), as well as the usual admin and social media grind, and backing up the machines as is what happens at the beginning of each month. Productive at least! Another Better Than The Book video to share with you today as well as $1 Patreon rewards and the usual setting and reflecting on monthly goals, so let's get started!

First of all this week, another LIVE and loud video, and this time (and for the next 3 videos too) it'll be a full song play-through from the first full band Better Than The Book rehearsal back in December! This week we're back to the One Small Step EP again for some "Backseat Phobia"! Buckle up your seats and enjoy!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNgfm0jJHYI
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Line-up:
Nick Standing: Composer, 1st guitar + lead vocals
Eamon Standing: 2nd guitar + backing vocals
Sam Brown: Bass + backing vocals
Andy Forman: Drums
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"Backseat Phobia" and the rest of the One Small Step EP are available on all major digital distributors as well as the Better Than The Book Bandcamp page:

https://betterthanthebook.bandcamp.com/

Or of course you can pick them up if you haven't already when you become a supporter on Patreon, complete with the full Better Than The Book discography and more when you sign up! With the project going live, we could use all the support we can get to push it as far as possible, and another set of $1 rewards was just posted yesterday too (mp3s and art of last week's $5 rewards: Jabun's 2014 single Home (+ all historic rewards for your tier)) so come join the community:

Read more: https://www.patreon.com/posts/33331416
$1 rewards: https://www.patreon.com/posts/33331414
Join Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/NickStanding

3 more of these videos to come over the next month, all full song play-throughs from the first LIVE and loud rehearsal session! Subscribe to the BTTB YouTube channel to get them fresh off the press, and I'll see you next week for another one! 

Finally this week, it's time to reflect on and set some more monthly goals! Here's what I set myself for February:

1) Develop a general exercise / vocal workout / BTTB practice routine
2) Get this cover song mixed and rough mastered ready to send for some feedback
3) Write 50+ minutes of rough demos for the upcoming 2nd Jabun album (total)
4) Get verified and sort my profiles for Jabun and Better Than The Book on Spotify (update socials + website with links)

And overall I think it was successful! 1) I've got into a good routine I think, though I feel like I'm not as far on the vocal workout routine as I'd have hoped by this time. Still, I can definitely feel the benefits of all the breathing exercises at least to it's definitely working! With illness and various visits it's been difficult to keep up with everything, but I think it's all going ok. 2) The upcoming cover song has been mixed and got feedback for now so I'm just going through the tweaks for the next round of feedback at the moment. Target achieved! 3) Over 55 minutes of rough demos for the upcoming Jabun album are completed now so that's great! And finally 4) both Better Than The Book and Jabun have been verified on Spotify and the various websites (etc...) updated! Check out the links below if you haven't seen them already:

BTTB - https://open.spotify.com/artist/4GUCmKQoIk3bNWGiXDGkrp
Jabun - https://open.spotify.com/artist/6Ig1iozkpNv4mOGHJFny73

Overall a pretty good month I'd say! No major gripes though I still feel I could have done better with goal 1). Let's set some more stuff for March:

1) Get the audio 100% complete for the upcoming cover song
2) Write 70+ minutes (total) of Jabun demos
3) Get those 3 bonus tracks uploaded and sort out the Patreon rewards for the next 2 months
4) Prepare and learn the setlist (solid) for Better Than The Book's 1st gig on April 11th!

Wait wait wait 4)?!?! That's right, although it's still yet to be officially announced, Better Than The Book will be playing its very first gig on April 11th! Details to come and I'll be posting about them in the next blog post hopefully, but should be exciting times! As such there's a lot to prepare for it, not just with regards the music, but equipment, travel etc... but as it stands from the current practice sessions, I'd say the music is pretty darn solid at the moment at least (90+% there)! Goal 1) should hopefully be doable, and I'm aiming to have another draft send out before the next blog post. 2) is fairly low priority this month, but always fun to write more music, and 3) since I'll be away for most of April I've got to schedule the posts beforehand. I hope you enjoy the fun and silly bonus tracks to come! That's enough goals for me for March! Wish me luck and feel free to share your own in the comments! All the best with yours too!

And that's it for today's update! I'll be back this time next week with the next BTTB live video as well as an official announcement for that debut BTTB gig if all goes to plan, and I'm sure there'll be more fun news to report as well! Looking forward to it and until then, thanks as always for supporting JabunAudio, Better Than The Book, Jabun, and my various music projects and I hope you have a great week to come! Take care!

Hi everyone and hope you're having a great final week of February and are suitably filled with pancakes if you celebrated on Tuesday! It's been a reasonably relaxed week for the most part as my brother Eamon (Harmonica and 2nd guitarist from the BTTB live band) was over for a visit so I wasn't in the studio much while he was here. The rest of my week has been catching up on admin things and practicing more Better Than The Book live stuff, as well as topping the Jabun album demos up to 55+ minutes just about! Nevertheless there are are fair few things to report this week with new video clips and Patreon rewards to share so let's get to it!

First of all, another LIVE video clip to share with you today from a mini Better Than The Book rehearsal in January 2020! This time we’re playing "Cathode Ray Days" from the Two Years On album and the main purpose of this practice was to go over vocal harmonies, of which Cathode Ray Days has a lovely 3 part section in the 2nd verse! Hope you enjoy this more intimate practice and check out the video below!

Hi everyone and hope you're having a splendid week so far! It's been a reasonably busy time here at JabunAudio, working on the upcoming Jabun album, as well as mixing the mystery cover song and doing promo work for some of the other news I'm about to share: another Better Than The Book LIVE rehearsal video + some exciting radio news! No time to wait! Let's begin!

First of all this week I have another video clip to share with you from Better Than The Book's first full-band rehearsal back in December, and this time it's "Hearts Racing" (again)! Again this would have been the 2nd time ever that we'd have played this song together as a full band so it's still a little rough around the edges, but I think you'll enjoy the step up in energy since the small jam meet-up previously! Check it out below!

Line-up:
Nick Standing: Composer, 1st guitar + lead vocals
Eamon Standing: Harmonica + backing vocals
Sam Brown: Bass + backing vocals
Andy Forman: Drums

"Hearts Racing" and the rest of the Two Years On album are available on all major digital distributors as well as the Better Than The Book Bandcamp page:

https://betterthanthebook.bandcamp.com/ 

Or of course you can pick them up if you haven't already when you become a supporter on Patreon! Easy peasy with a side serving of the full Better Than The Book discography and more, and with the project going live, we could use all the support we can get to push it as far as possible! Come join the community:

https://www.patreon.com/NickStanding

5 more of these videos to come over the next 2 months, and it just keeps getting better from here (IMO)! Subscribe to the BTTB YouTube channel to get them fresh off the press, and I'll see you next week for another one!

Onto this week's exciting radio show news, last night "And I Fear" from Better Than The Book's Hopes and Dreams album made its radio debut on Union JACK Radio's Underdogs show! With "And I Fear" played, that makes a whopping 8/10 tracks from the Hopes and Dreams album to have made onto the radio worldwide, which is phenomenal! Thanks so much to Union Jack Radio and everyone else for all the BTTB love, and tune in to listen to lots of great British music over on Union JACK Radio:

https://www.unionjack.co.uk/

That's it for this week's update, and I'll be back next time with another video clip, more $5 Patreon rewards, and more news to report I'm sure! Looking forward to it and until then, thanks as always for supporting Better Than The Book, JabunAudio and my various music projects! Have a fun week, and take care!

Hi everyone and hope you're having a great week so far! I certainly am as I'm no longer ill in bed, so it's been back to the usual music making and practicing routines over here, though I'm still feeling restless wanting to do more ALL THE TIME! An especially inspired time working on the upcoming Jabun album has topped up the project's current duration to 44+ minutes of demos, and I've been working hard mixing this mystery cover song too which is going well! Onto the main news for this week I've got another Better Than The Book live video clip to share with you + some Spotify news as you can see from the post's title! Let's get started!

First on the news this week, here's a LIVE and LOUD video clip of "Watching Airships" from the very first Better Than The Book full-band rehearsal back in December! Now bear in mind this would have been the 2nd time EVER that we'd have played this song together (the first time being maybe half an hour before the video was taken), and it was our first day gelling as a full band too, so it's a little bit rough around the edges, but I thought it turned out pretty darn good and I hope you enjoy seeing the full BTTB live band in action! Check it out

​Live band line-up:
Nick Standing: Composer, 1st guitar + lead vocals
Eamon Standing: 2nd guitar + backing vocals
Sam Brown: Bass + backing vocals
Andy Forman: Drums

Watching Airships and the rest of the One Small Step EP are available on all major digital distributors as well as the Better Than The Book Bandcamp page:

https://betterthanthebook.bandcamp.com/

Or of course you can pick them up if you haven't already when you become a supporter on Patreon! Easy peasy with a side serving of the full Better Than The Book discography and more, and with the project going live, we could use all the support we can get to push it as far as possible! Come join the community:

https://www.patreon.com/NickStanding

6 more of these videos to come over the next 2 months, and it just keeps getting better from here (IMO)! Subscribe to the BTTB YouTube channel to get  them fresh off the press, and I'll see you next week for another one! 

Next and lastly on the news this week, some cool news as after being on the platform for a few years now, Better Than The Book and Jabun are now both verified on the global streaming platform Spotify! Check out the updated pages below complete with bio, extra photos and more:

BTTB - https://open.spotify.com/artist/4GUCmKQoIk3bNWGiXDGkrp
Jabun - https://open.spotify.com/artist/6Ig1iozkpNv4mOGHJFny73

The ONLY thing I wasn't able to update on them is the upcoming gigs sections, which are populated automatically by services such as Ticketmaster so I couldn't contribute to them manually. With that being the case, Head over to the BTTB website for the most up to date gig info:

https://betterthanthebookuk.weebly.com/

(and I'll be sure to let you know if and when Jabun decides to go live too!)

Hope you enjoy the new pages and enjoy listening to my music on Spotify!

That's it for this week! Another BTTB full band live clip will be coming next time, and in the mean time I'll be practicing hard for the next full band meet-up while working on my current music projects and trying to get a solid practice routine sorted! Until the next post, I hope you have a great week of your own too and thanks as always for supporting JabunAudio, Better Than The Book and my various projects! Take care!

Hello everyone and hope you're having a wonderful start to February! I don't say this often at all, but it's been a... "meh" kind of week here at JabunAudio, as I've been off for most of it dosed up on Lemsip which means no vocals + I burnt my left index finger on the hob which means an unwanted break from guitar too... With the time I have been here though (or typing social media posts from bed), it has been a pretty productive week working on this month's targets and goals which we'll get to in a moment, but before all that, some extra special things to share with you this week! Let's get to it!

First of all, some celebrations! How quickly time flies and would you believe that 4 years ago today, Better Than The Book released its debut full-length album Two Years On! It's also of course the 3rd anniversary of the Two Years On [Instrumentals] bonus album, and man oh man has it been a heck of a ride since these albums came out! Check them out on Bandcamp if you've yet to hear them:

https://betterthanthebook.bandcamp.com/

To celebrate (and next in this week's big news), I think it's about time we get this live show rolling, so here's a clip from the VERY FIRST meet-up of the Better Than The Book LIVE band from back in August last year! I know a lot of you have been waiting YEARS for this day, so here's a short clip of Hearts Racing from the Two Years On album from Bassist Sam's living room! I hope you enjoy it as much as we did getting this all together!

The line-up is as follows:
Nick Standing: Composer, 1st guitar + lead vocals
Eamon Standing: Harmonica + backing vocals
Sam Brown: Bass
Andy Forman: 2nd guitar

Andy's usually on drums, but he had his guitar this time! There are 7 more of these videos to come over the next 2 months, and it just gets better from here (IMO)! Subscribe to the BTTB YouTube channel to get them fresh off the press as they come, and support Better Than The Book and the rest of my music on Patreon for the FULL BTTB Discography, monthly rewards and more!

https://www.patreon.com/NickStanding

And speaking of Patreon, the $1 rewards for February have just been sent out, Mp3 and Artwork downloads for Jabun's 2013 single Distance (+ all historic rewards for your tier)! Read more and check out the rewards via the posts below: 

Read more: https://www.patreon.com/posts/1-rewards-have-33000130
$1 rewards: https://www.patreon.com/posts/1-patron-rewards-33000133

Finally this week, it's the beginning of the month which means time to reflect on last month goals and set some new ones! Here's what I had for January:

1) Write & record 30+ minutes of rough demos for the 2nd Jabun album (total)
2) Finish recording vocals for that cover song 
3) Update the websites (change the dates, update descriptions on front page etc...)
4) Sort the next set of Patreon rewards
5) Sort the arrangement and practice materials for the next set of 7 BTTB songs
6) Set up a BTTB Instagram account and share the links on the web etc...
7) Hang up and mark up my JabunAudio world map
8) Sort through all the BTTB footage from the practice(s) and get ready to upload it

And I think things went super well this month! 1) There are currently 36+ minutes of rough demos for the 2nd Jabun album, so I hit a fair bit above the target! 2) Is FINALLY DONE (just in time for another cold and bad throat). 3), 4), 5), 6) done! 7) The map is all marked up but looks like I don't have the wall-space to hang it at the moment, so it's currently rolled up with the microphone stands. I'm not too bothered that I couldn't hang it right now, but it was sure fun to fill in, and hopefully I'll have some space in the future! And 8) That's all done, and as you can see the first video has already been uploaded + published! Overall a cracking month for goals and targets! Horray!

Onto goals for the coming month, I've already made a start with these so the Patreon rewards for next month are already sorted + I've already uploaded and scheduled the 7 other BTTB live videos too! That's 2 things off my goals list already. Here's the rest of them:

1) Develop a general exercise / vocal workout / BTTB practice routine
2) Get this cover song mixed and rough mastered ready to send for some feedback
3) Write 50+ minutes of rough demos for the upcoming 2nd Jabun album (total)
4) Get verified and sort my profiles for Jabun and Better Than The Book on Spotify (update socials + website with links)

Doesn't seem like as many goals this month, but on top of the ones already completed, I have a handful on non-music related personal ones too, and with it being February (the shortest month), I'm sure this'll be PLENTY to get on with! 1) I've actually already mostly got the general exercise routine down, it's just implementing the other workouts around it that needs doing. 2) It's all edited now and is getting there with regards the mix, so hopefully shouldn't be too much of a strain, though it's venturing out of my comfort zone a little. 3) I think will be the most challenging, I just need to keep at it and develop more of these partially completed ideas for another 14 minutes of finished demos. And 4) I've actually already been verified (as of a few days ago), but I need to go through and sort all the profiles + update links in all those other places. Should hopefully be smooth sailing! Any goals on your end you'd like to share? Feel free to post them in the comments below so we can keep each other accountable, and best of luck!

And that wraps things up for this post! Another BTTB live clip will be coming in the next one and once I've shaken off this illness I'm sure I'll be back to my usual productive self (very much looking forward to playing guitar and singing again). Until the next one, I hope you enjoy the new video and have a great time whatever you're up to and thanks as always for supporting JabunAudio, Better Than The Book and my various projects! See you in the next one and take care!

Get more from Jabun and Better Than The Book on Patreon: 
https://www.patreon.com/NickStanding

Hi everyone and hope you've had a great week since the last post! Snow and Chinese New Year fun-times over hear along with a super busy week at JabunAudio working on the upcoming 2nd Jabun album from which there are now over 36 minutes of demos completed! Horray! As you might have read in the title too, there's a lot to share in this week's news so let's get straight into that!

First of all, I'm super excited to share that after much trawling on eBay and many lost auctions over the past few weeks, I've FINALLY acquired a lovely Marshall 1 x 12" speaker cabinet to play my new amp through which means my Better Than The Book LIVE guitar rig is finally complete! For those interested, here's a rundown of what I'm using:

Amp head: an Orange Micro Dark

Speaker cabinet: a Marshall AVT112 cab (though this is mainly for the studio; I'll be using whatever cab the venue has generally)

Pedals:
Boss SD-1 Super Overdrive
Digitech Hardwire HT-2 Chromatic Tuner
My own custom Pre-Wash pedal

I may add my modded Jim Dunlop Crybaby Wah pedal to the rig (not pictured) depending on the set-list, though we'll have to see (the less I have to carry, the better)!

Super excited to see what happens next and I have much practicing to do before the next full-band rehearsal in April so I should get to it! Check out the picture below to see the new rig:

Hi everyone and hope you're having a great week so far! It's been a SUPER busy one here at JabunAudio, but a productive busy rather than a tedious one! Some small(ish) updates to start with before we get into the main news for this week: After a super inspired weekend of Jabun jamming and demo recording, over 30 minutes of demos for Jabun's upcoming 2nd album are now complete with still a tonne more ideas I've left to explore! On top of that, after many months of stalling due to moving studios, illness and being away, I've FINALLY finished recording vocals (and therefore everything) for the mystery cover song I've been meaning to release for the past year! It's onto the final editing, any extra production things and mixing now!

Moving onto non-recording news, I've just about finished sorting through the footage from the various Better Than The Book LIVE practice sessions, totally in 8 videos: 4 shorter clips and 4 full length songs! They're just awaiting approval from the rest of the band before I upload them properly and make them public, but more on the release schedule for those when the time comes. Lastly on the small(ish) updates, I've finally sourced a speaker cabinet for my new Orange Amp which should be with me by the time you're reading this! More on that next week, and boy am I excited!

And with that, let's get onto the main news for this week! After some difficulties getting it all working and set up, Better Than The Book finally has an INSTAGRAM page! I'll be sharing daily pictures on this as best I can, and at the moment I'm running a never before shown series with behind the scenes pictures and in-depth descriptions from recording the One Small Step EP back in 2012! Check out the pictures below for a taste of what you're missing and head over to Instagram for a new picture each morning! I hope you enjoy the journey!

https://www.instagram.com/bttb_music/

​And remember you can support both Jabun and Better Than The Book and get even more behind the scenes peeks (including audio) when you subscribe to my Patreon page! Maybe I don't plug this often enough, but it's a great way to support the projects on a regular basis and you'll get the full BTTB discography and MUCH MORE when you sign up too for MUCH LESS than buying it off Bandcamp or iTunes etc... + I love chatting to people in the comments about things! Hope to see you there:

Get more from Jabun and Better Than The Book on Patreon: 
https://www.patreon.com/NickStanding

And that's about it for this week! I think that's about all my main targets for the month already completed too which means more time for me to practice these new BTTB songs, write some more Jabun, and get stuck in producing this mystery cover song! No doubt I'll be filling my time with productive things and maybe even getting a head start on next months targets! We shall see! Until the next post, I hope you have a great final week of January, see you next time for some more $5 Patreon rewards, and thanks as always for supporting Better Than The Book, Jabun and my various projects! Take care!