In order to make some space available for some personal projects, I have decided to put Electric Sky on hiatus. The site (including a recent wave of new shows) and RSS feed will remain online and fully functional.
As many people have pointed out, it has been far too long since I’ve published regular episodes of Electric Sky. I won’t defend the hiatus except to say that it was anything but intentional.
I have a few shows recorded that I have to produce. Expect something in the coming weeks.
While most of my back catalog of Electric Sky podcasts make me cringe because of quality issues relating to either me or the audio production (or both), I’m particularly proud of an episode I produced two years ago today: A tribute to Remembrance Day.
So, even though it’s a bit cheap to re-release something from my past, it’s important to me to share this show from my past with a potentially new audience while reminding my long-time listeners about the need to remember those who gave their lives and those who risked — and continue to risk — their lives, throughout history, for their countries.
As an interviewer, it’s always exciting when a guest delivers great answers and insight. As a producer, it makes the task of streamlining the interview to fit a specific format extremely difficult; even stressful.
Miles Copeland, former manager of The Police, was an amazing guest. I published our interview on the Electric Sky podcast site on August 20, 2006. This edition of my Sound Connections podcast features the outtakes.
In March 2006, I took a day off of work to spent time with the residents of Harvest House, a recovery program based in Ottawa. It was an incredibly educational and emotional day.
I am currently producing a thirty-minute documentary based on my experiences that day. The program will be available at Electric Sky later this summer.
Music for the documentary and the promo by Dawn Tyler Watson (used with permission).
The band I’m in is performing, tonight, as part of the festivities at the Canadian Cancer Society Relay for Life in Stittsville, ON. The concert will include my debut as lead vocalist on “Hide Your Love Away”.
I will be performing in support of my friend Derek K. Miller, who is kicking colorectal cancer in the butt (I couldn’t help myself). You can follow Derek’s blog, which includes the real-deal on his fight with cancer and its impact on him and his family, at penmachine.com.
I did an audio documentary (Salute to the Relay for Life) two years ago. You can play it, download it and subscribe to it at the Electric Sky Podcast website.
I published my very first podcast on April 29, 2005. I can’t even listen to the damned thing any more - much as I expect I won’t be able to listen to the shows I produce this week in two years.
To celebrate this event, I did something that I haven’t been doing on a regular schedule this year — I released an episode of Electric Sky. My guest on the anniversary episode is Tod Maffin, the man responsible for me podcasting and blogging.
A long version of the conversation with Tod will be published later this week on MarkBlevis.com.
Because of the format I have developed for Electric Sky, I am sometimes forced to make tough editing decisions. This particular outtake - from the episode Experiencing a Shuttle Launch - is a great example. What I love about this clip is that Yves did an amazing job trying to unite two worlds that cannot relate to each other.
Sometimes I wonder how I would explain space to someone who can’t see.
It seems fitting to release this clip today, just hours before The Police open the 49th Grammy Awards. What you’ll hear is a line of questioning about creativity that did not make the final cut of the interview with Stewart Copeland that was published on Electric Sky.
Several people have asked why I haven’t yet blogged about the upcoming Grammy performance of The Police, my favourite band. The fact is, I don’t know what to say. Actually, that’s not entirely true; I’ll be pissed if they don’t tour.
I have had the unique privilege of interviewing the brothers Copeland — Ian, Stewart and Miles — for my Electric Sky Podcast. Perhaps it’s time for me to dig through the recordings and publish the outtakes.
Anyone have connections so that I can interview Andy and Sting?
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I served as bass player for various, early, incarnations of the Robert Farrell Band, last performing with Robert in 1997. After a long hiaitus from music to focus on family and a career, I started working on my first CD, real, in 2004 — before I discovered Podcasting.
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