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First of all, Orite! I'm Howden or Andrew when I'm in trouble.
I am a sound technician and a recording engineer, Just got work along at Shore Sounds Music in Leith as the mixing engineer / tape-op which im excited about! still getting the place up and running smoothely, once thats done its all go! I am also the in-house recording engineer at Good Vibrations rehearsal studio in Stirling with my mobile studio. I record bands in my spare time in my own home project studio. If your band wants a cheap professional quality demo recorded, drop me a line. I offer competitive prices and can adapt to many different situations depending on your genre, line up and ways of working that suit you, the client best.
I'm a musician first and foremost, and at the moment my life pretty much revolves around music. I posses a diploma in it although getting it was probably the biggest waste of time ever as I finished college with fuck all skills to get me a job in the real world, just got a bit better at piano which I never play anymore.
I've riden BMX since I was 13, but I dont really get much time on it due to shite scottish weather and doing band shit.
I drive a van coz they rock but I'm selling it coz its too dear to run.
I'm so passive I'm horizontal aparently, you have to get used to my sick un-PC sense of humour otherwise you'll prob just get offended, if thats the case then deal with it lol.
I change for no one.
I procrastinate
I have an absolutely gorgeous amazing girlfriend called Nic who makes me happy every moment I spend with her, she gets me Spongebob stickers from work and gives the most amazing cuddles and we just got 2 greedy cats Brody n Sybil. Nic still gives me butterflies after a year just from thinking about her coz she is everything I could ever want and need in a woman and more, were due to move in properly together mid February n I cant wait!
I Love you
...also
I play keyboards in The Debuts ;
I passed my 3rd year studying for a BSc Music technology Degree at Paisley University and I'm doing my honours year at Napier University and its hard work, its a positive detour from that dead end road of taking my popular music education further i guess, at least I can work for myself with the skills iv learned coz I couldn't hack being a classroom music teacher.
I like to spend money a lot, sometimes too much.
listen to Slayer.
That is all.

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

The rest of Reuben and Slayer would be pretty awesome!But i would also like to meet James Blunt, The Hoosiers, Scouting for Girl and Panic at the Disco, so I can kick them all square in the balls one after the other for ruining the music scene and turning it into a plastic manufactured overproduced mediocre money making machine. ..also indie kids who get a Microkorg keyboard for xmas, join a band, play it with 2 fingers and use it just to make shitty noises using the pre-set patches are NOT keyboard players, they're fucking posers. fuck off.

My Blog

howdens guide to being in a band

My guide to being in a band, entries are in no specific order. enjoy1. Don't do pay to play gigs unless you know you can shift at least 50 tickets, in fact, don't EVER do them coz theyre just rubb...
Posted by on Tue, 27 Jan 2009 00:27:00 GMT

My Recording Prices at Howden Sound...

RatesStudio:£120 per day £300 for 3 daysWhether you want 2 songs polished to perfection or want to nail down a 30 track punk album in a very short timespan (it has been done!) this deal could suit you...
Posted by on Wed, 09 Jul 2008 07:49:00 GMT

life the now

I never seem to update this very much, i cant be arsed with all this life journal n bloging nonsense that people seem to love so much but here goes anyways.lifes been awesome over the last month or so...
Posted by on Wed, 05 Mar 2008 05:23:00 GMT

(Another) New Band wi John

Had a try out for bein the drummer for john winebergs new project... (yet to be named) and he wants me to drum for him so im pretty chuffed since iv wanted to drum for ages! John was the former front ...
Posted by on Sun, 23 Apr 2006 05:57:00 GMT

ROSS BAND STAND!!

The System have been asked to play The Ross Band Stand in the princess street gardens by Forth 1.  We applied for it about a month ago, we forgot about it till they emails us back sayin we got a ...
Posted by on Fri, 14 Apr 2006 10:58:00 GMT

The Fightstar gig on saturday...

Wow what a night... i had work from 7.30 in the morning, i sneaked out at 3.30 instead o 4.30 coz im mental, got a lift up tonw by my kind dad coz i was well late for meetin becki n abbi.  went to ge...
Posted by on Tue, 21 Mar 2006 09:53:00 GMT

last nite pffft

last night i went down to my dear friend kerrys bit, we sat n ate a chinese which was gid as fuck, then i drank a whole bottle o apple sours which was a big mistake lol i was bouncing off the walls, m...
Posted by on Sat, 04 Mar 2006 02:30:00 GMT