OK. So the gauntlet has been thrown down and Mister Fusty is up for the challenge.

Record a whole album in just the 28 days of February of either 10 songs or 35 minutes+

Crikey.

I’m going to give this a go, for the fun of it and also because I’m curious how it will affect my creativity, music making skills, songwriting, well being etc. I’m going to be posting regular updates of how I’m doing on Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and on the RPM Blog,  so “follow“, “like” and keep checking, if only to see if I’m still ok. If you hear nothing for a while assume either I’ve declared, “CAN”T BE ARSED!!” and given up or I’ve gone mental.

Wish me luck.

Greetings. Remember the incredibly corny Christmas tune I released last year? Well, it’s back! I’ve made it available again for this years festive season, including it’s instrumental version as the “b-side” (which IMO is the better version). Listen or download below or at Bandcamp.

Now on to Mister Fusty’s future…

Recently I have been pondering what to do with old Fusty. Options I have considered include: abandoning him in a forest, changing his name or putting him in a cupboard for a few years. Any of these things may still happen! However next year, instead of recording a collection of songs for months on end (rather like a squirrel gathering nuts for the winter) and then releasing an album, I’m going to release one song at a time . So whenever I finish a song, and decide it’s good enough to enter the wild, it will magically appear for you to download free here and on the Facebook page, Soundcloud  etc. Hopefully this will happen at fairly regular intervals during 2012/13. If I have a decent number of tracks that I’m happy with I might add some spit & polish and make it an album. It’s a vague plan, and I am prone to change my mind, but I’m trying a different approach anyway.

Thanks for listening. Have a great festive season – cheers!

Hello there,

I’ve not posted any news for a while, so here’s a little update on the goings on in Fusty land, should you be bothered!

The Connect EP had a few nice reviews, links below, which was encouraging. I wish I could say I’ve raised a lot of money for charity – I haven’t. A shame but I tried. Either I’m not very good at getting the message out (likely), or the music must be really bad (possible) or people really don’t want to pay for any music these days, especially from an obscure hobbyist like me (bingo!). Not to worry though, I really like making all this stuff up so I’ll continue throwing these songs and musical nuggets out there. Tough!

For an experiment I put some of my music on a Bittorrent site, Mininova, who now only distribute legal torrents. It’s actually a great way of getting stuff out there, whether you are a movie-maker or musician, providing you don’t want to be paid for it of course. Anyway, I tried it and I had a LOT of downloads – well, for me anyway. Whether people actually liked what they downloaded I don’t know, but at least it brought the music to their attention. Perhaps it might persuade them to buy a lossless download or try one of my paid for albums, who knows? As long as more people hear the music I make I don’t really mind. I was never in this for the money, this is a hobby and will always be so. I might as well do this for all future releases, at least a few more people will hear it. Future releases..ah yes….

I’ve started work on the, as yet untitled, 4th Mister Fusty album. It’s at the very early stages yet but I have a few ideas, it’s hopefully going to be a bit different to the last, perhaps a little more experimental and lyrically I’m going for a different direction too. We shall see! I have a few older songs floating about that I may post here, songs that might not fit on the new album.

I have it on good authority that the very first Mister Fusty cover is happening, i.e. someone covering one of my songs as opposed to the other way around. I’m honoured that someone would actually want to play one of my songs so it’s a thrill for me. I won’t say anymore about who and when, watch this space!

There’s also a possible collaboration with some talented comic book artists in the pipeline, one of my new songs may feature in a some sort of comic book/music crossover scheme. More news on that to come but it sounds like a great project.

And finally the big news is…I’m doing a Christmas song! Yeah, why not eh? I’ve had a backing track floating around for a few months that is slighty too cheesy (even for my standards) to use on the new album but would make a great bit of festive frivolity. So all I need to do is write some pithy lyrics, add some vocals (and a few sleigh bells of course) and there we have it. Be afraid.

http://popshifter.com/2010-07-30/mister-fusty-connect-ep/

http://thisispopmusic.blogspot.com/2010/06/mister-fusty-releases-connect-ep-for.html

http://monolithcocktail.wordpress.com/july-2010/reviews/

Thanks for reading my blathering,

Rob

The Mister Fusty website is being updated and twiddled about with, please bear with us. The misterfusty.wordpress.com site is now gone, thanks to a friend (cheers Steven!) I have a new host, so misterfusty.com is back again!

OTHER NEWS

I plan, hopefully, to release two EPs this year. The first, as yet untitled, EP will appear in June and all proceeds will go to charity. The second should arrive in the Autumn, I say should as I’ve not written or recorded the songs yet…

More details to come on the first EP soon.

Welcome to the new look Mister Fusty website. As well as the cosmetic changes there is some content changes too.
I’ve decided to base the website around a blog, instead of the website just being about Mister Fusty’s music I’ll also
be blathering on about other peoples music I like and other general stuff. It’s sound very vague but that’s the idea.
There’s no strict rule about what kind of things I’ll post about, I’m just going with the flow!
To make things easier each post with be catagorically tagged, so if you just want to know what’s happening with Mister Fusty
you can click “Mister Fusty News” on the right and only posts relating to that will appear. I’ll hopefully be writing about (and hopefully be interviewing)
other artists too, so if you just want to read about them click on “Other Music Articles “. You get the jist.

If you have an RSS reader you can also subscribe to the Mister Fusty site, either click on the RSS symbol or
copy and paste this link into your reader.

http://misterfusty.com/?feed=rss2

As with most blogs you can leave your comments so please do (only nice ones though please!)

Look out for a few new Mister Fusty tracks which I will post first to the site which features yours truly on vocals.