Power of Ten Project

Thanks to J...

Power of Ten — 2009-01-22T15:44:17+00:00

David and Paul would like to give their thanks to 'J' for standing in for guitar duties while David was otherwise engaged with his brain hemmorhage.

'J' kindly covered all gigs already booked and did a stirling effort in learning a set of over 40 songs in less than a week. He also had to put up with Paul during this difficult time...

Guitar Collection Grows...

Power of Ten — 2009-01-22T15:36:39+00:00

Meanwhile....

... back in the land of nice things, Paul would like everyone to know that he has added another few guitars to his collection.

These are, a beautiful Gibson J45, a Tobacco Sunburst Takamine 444, another 5 string Music Man Bongo, and to top the lot an incredible Ernie Ball Family Reserve Stingray. Only 50 of these have been made, and Paul is very happy to be the proud owner of one of them.

He was overheard saying something like, "Credit crunch? eh? What's a credit crunch?'

Music School Closes

Power of Ten — 2009-01-22T15:33:17+00:00

Unfortunately to David's illness the Music School has had to be closed. He would like to wish all pupils every success for the future, and thanks for choosing his school to learn with.

A Brief Update

Power of Ten — 2009-01-22T15:14:22+00:00

If you have been wondering why the site has been a bit neglected over the last few months, it's because David has been out of action over the last few months. Unfortunately in October, David suffered a subarachnoid brain hemmorhage .

Lucky for him he was next door to the Ulster Hospital and was taken where he underwent initial tests and scans. From there he was transferred to the Royal Victoria Hospital where he underwent an operation. This appears to have been successful although he is still very stupid and grumpy. He will be undergoing a period of convalesence but he is improving.

David would like to thank everyone who has sent their best wishes for a full recovery and especially colleagues Helene Sloane and John Steen who promptly organised an ambulance and got him to hospital pronto. Without their prompt attention the outcome could very well have been different. Guess that First Aid Training really works! He would also like to thank the excellent staff at the Ulster Hospital and Royal Victoria Hospital, especially the staff on Ward 4F Neuro.

Free MP3's now up...

Power of Ten — 2008-06-15T13:33:47+01:00

Well, we just couldn't be decisive about which tracks should go up and which should not. So in the end, we've just stuck the lot up there, lucky you. Hope you like them, and if you do, why not drop us a line and tell us which are your favourites, and which ones you're not so hot on!

The extra benefit for you of course is that they are all FREEEE. Had we been able to pick a good number of them we would have compiled them up into an album and charged you for them! So that'll teach us to be more decisive in the future :-)

There are now 19 free tracks on the Music Downloads page so hurry along and get them before we decide to take some of them down again. Some of these never got round to getting the full treatment so are still basically in demo form. A few have been published to various publishing houses, and some have already been included on compilation albums. One track, Hand's Up, even got as far as been on the shortlist for an album by a Canadian female Country singer.

Happy New Year!!

Power of Ten — 2008-01-29T22:15:39+00:00

Well it's really a bit late to wish you all a very happy new year, but it is wished anyway, have a good and healthy one. This is just a short, quick line to let you all know that very shortly we will be uploading some FREE MP3's by The Collectors for you to download. Don't say we never give you anything! In the meantime, why not head over to the Downloads pages and get yourself some FREE funky Power of Ten wallpaper to glorify your computer desktop. Thanks to Tommy Irvine for designing and providing the wallpapers.
And don't forget, come back soon to get those FREE MP3's to add to the ones already on the Music downloads page.

He's at it again...

Power of Ten — 2007-08-08T22:05:28+01:00

The bass player is never content, always making attempts to upstage real guitarists. It's not enough to have a load of six string instruments that he can't really play, but he has to keep adding more and more to his rather lovely collection.

Paul has only gone and bought another few guitars to make us all jealous and mutter things like 'how many guitars can you play at one time anyway?" and "I'm happy with my Kay Custom Classic...".

And if thats not enough, two of the guitars he added to the collection are, well, guitar collections in their own right. Two Line 6 Variax guitars are now being lovingly wiped with Mr Sheen and a yellow rag, one bass and one real guitar with six strings. as I'm sure you know the Line 6 Variax guitars are modelling jobbies which digitally model some of the worlds greatest guitars (which he already has so what's the flippin' point?..just remember he's a bass player which I suppose is a good enough excuse).

So, instead of adding what would normally be considered 4 guitars, he's basically doubled his collection when you include the dozens of modelled guitars whose souls have been harvested by Line 6. Good stuff.

The other guitar is another Musicman Bongo, this time white, to go with his other Musicman Bongo, that time black. He even drove to Scotland to get the thing from a fellow eBayer (who in actual fact took possesion of one of Paul's other basses in a sort of dodgy, meet you in a car park in Stranraer sort of way. Swapshop was never like this.) This could be a sign that Paul is about to embark on collecting the same model of guitar, only in different colours. Hooray. Can't wait.

Don't be jealous, just go and look at them here if you haven't already.

Guitar, Bass, Drums and Keyboards lessons.....

Power of Ten — 2007-08-02T19:35:04+01:00

After taking a very short break, it's all go again for David Irvine, with the re-opening of his Rock Music School. The schools were closed for a couple of weeks during the summer but are now preparing for opening again on 6th August. Teaching kids, young and old, guitar, bass, drums and keyboards, David and his team of tutors are looking forward to preparing the pupils for their next live event (probably around Christmas time) following the success of the summer event in the Stormont Hotel in Belfast. Around 300 parents and friends watched the pupils rock through a set that included songs by Deep Purple, Green Day, The Beatles and Snow Patrol to name but a few and raised nearly £1500 for the Northern Ireland Childrens Hospice.

Now David is also hoping to add a special 'Adults Only' hour in one of the schools so if you are feeling the need to satisfy the urge to learn how to play guitar, bass, drums or keyboards and live in the Belfast and Dundonald areas then visit the main school site at www.clivesmusic.com and go to the schools pages. Then simply click on the big yellow star to book a completely FREE taster session and the schools manager will get back to you to arrange a suitable date and time for the lesson.

No Hot Ashes - Annexxe - Alliance

Power of Ten — 2007-08-02T19:13:58+01:00

For quite some time now there has been speculation on No Hot Ashes reforming to do a couple of gigs. Well, that ain't happening (not yet anyway), so the next best thing is a collaboration of a couple of ex-No Hot Ashes members, and a couple of ex-Annexxe band members !! Paul Boyd, David Irvine and Stevie Campbell from No Hot Ashes and Eddie Currie, Brendan McCloskey and Stevie Campbell from Annexxe (...hey wait...Stevie!! You're such a tart!! ) got together for a jam and a bit of a laugh. The result is Alliance, a rock band dipping it's toes into the sea of time, playing classic rock covers and some nearly new tunes!

The guys have been loudly putting together a 40 minute set to perform at The Rosetta Bar, Cregagh, on Friday 10th August as part of a charity event. Unfortunately Davey Irvine is unable to make the gig due to other committments but is gutted that he can't be part of it. "I'm gutted not to be parted of it" said Irvine...However, he is hoping to get some time in the future when he can look forward to playing with the rest of the guys.

Word has it the band are sounding really pretty good, and thoroughly enjoying it, looking forward to pulling shapes and rocking The Rosie. Be there on Friday 10th August to bear witness. And come back here to get a review of the gig and hopefully some pics.

Broadband service provider change...

Power of Ten — 2007-02-22T12:10:04+00:00

We lose all contact with the outside world from tomorrow as we are changing broadband provider. We currently use PIPEX who have been very reliable, but thought we would give Talk Talk a go as the service is free. Problem is that PIPEX account gets closed on the 23rd Feb, but Talk Talk can’t have us up and running until the 2nd of March at the latest. So hopefully all will go to plan and we will be back online before then, but these things aren’t guaranteed so a bit apprehensive to say the least.

Not to worry, it will give us an opportunity to do some offline blogging and other site stuff, and then blast it all live in one go. So keep in touch. AND..we'll be back with some photos and news of an important event !!