I don't actually post all that many blogs on here, do I?

Well it's certainly time to post one now, because it's ALL happening here in Dave-world.

First and foremost everyone should already know that next Friday is Melbourne SHREDFEST 2 and I have been invited to start the procedings with some songs from my solo album. This is really a great thing for me, as I've never really had the opportunity to play these songs live before, and I might never have the opportunity to play them again... so to be able to do it at the Shredfest with some of my good friends (and not to mention incredible musicians) on the bill and hopefully in the audience makes it extra special.

I've been having a lot of fun posting my crazy bullitens borrowing pro-wrestling promos and rewording them to be about Shredfest... but on the serious side I have been spending a lot of time practicing my songs and also working on my technique and I really do think that I am playing pretty close to my best ever. There are a still a couple of little sections in some of the songs that I'm only just getting away with by the skin of my teeth, so i'll be working on those parts a lot over the coming week and hopefully it will all sound nice on the night.

The other huge news is that Xistance finally has some shows booked as well! This has really been a long time coming but now that it's finally about to happen, it's actually a very strange feeling for me because really... well, I actually haven't really done all that many gigs over the years. Titanium did about 3, i think! So to have Xistance really firing on all cylinders with a great album coming out any day now and hopefully regular gigs from here to eternity is kind of a dream come true for me.

Speaking of Titanium, i have started going through all of my old tapes of our recordings from over the years and it's kind of mindblowing for me to listen to that stuff. It seems like such a long time ago and we were all pretty young but some of the songs and the playing really stands up quite well. I plan on getting lots of this stuff online soon. I found a few little mp3s on my computer of some really old stuff like "Born Of This Earth" and "The One" which not many people have heard. Hopefully I can find the master tapes for those, but i have a bit of a bad feeling that they might have been lost. Still, maybe Dean will have copies of them somewhere.

That is about all for now I guess.

Come to Shredfest next week and support me and the boys, it's going to be a lot of fun.

Cheers everyone!

D