...Sick...glands...gr

I finally figured out why I couldn't log onto this site up 'till now.
That's a long story, but the moral of it is, I'm here.

I am also sick.

Lame

think I've got glandular fever (maan I can't spell). I can't sing at all, and have 0 energy...which sucks.
Unlike my kitten how ever hehe, who doesn't stop running.

it's rainded for the last four days. w00t
you may have noticed I'm not really enjoying myself too much.

but I'll get over it, and I'm sure once I have a job I'll be nicelly distracted. (hopefully these damn glads go down soon).

I'm missing NZ...ah how I miss NZ (never thought I'd say that).

Any way, internet is oober expencive over here so I should go (surfing trademe is hard).
Just thought I'd let you all know I'm still alive...mostly.

Also if you're going to email me, please do so on
ajhos@oyster.net.ck
for the time being (gmail doesn't like dialup)

see you all later

Jonny.

P.S. DialUp sucks...me no likey!

not dead, just sleeping

Well my pretties
it is time to go.

I will of course keep this site updated regularly, but for now I'm sorry if posts are slow.
I'm leaving finally, and i am scared, excited and annoyed that I'm not going to have a band for a whole year.
Where exactly the band will end up in a year no one really knows.
but at the moment it looks like we'll stay together, with a few changes to accommodate those who are leaving to further study.
it'll be a hectic time, and I'm sure there will be plenty to write about haha.

but in the mean time, Tim and myself will be writing like mad, to get things ready for our recording sessions, which are just over a year away hopefully.
Also, we plan to tour somewhat.
We'll definitely keep you posted on that, but it's obviously not for a while yet.

And for now, i'm thinking of naming this album,
"not dead, just sleeping"
Although it might seem like a crap name in the morning...and I've got a year to think about it.

keep your eyes on this page, because every month I'm gonna be uploading some samples of the recordings to come etc.

Love you all

Have a good night, next time I post I'll be in a different country.

Enjoy

Jonny.

Rex Manning day!

Well, it's not

it's MUSE DAY!

Ahhh hehe, been waiting for this for a while now.
Trying to keep my hopes at a responsible level, so the actual thing seems better, but its hard when it's all happening today!

Any way, I must to get ready to line up...for like 5 hours.
w00t!

haha

Enjoy this picture of them

Jonny.

All welcome the new comers

The Knob!

Basically a wee boost pedal, designed to make it seem like I'm turning up the 12k, and pumping my guitar through a tiny drive, but it's a lie really.
it's just a limiter, but it's MY limiter...and I made her today :D
which makes me smile.

So heres what she looks like.

hope you like the name

Jonny.

The Reckoner

Ah man

okay it's finally hit

I have all of 16 days left in this country.

So many things in my head right now, and the only song that I can think of to kinda sum up how I feel, is The Reckoner from Radiohead's latest album In Rainbows (they have a song for every occasion).

I wish I could draw, so you could see my expression of excited depression as i sip out of my overly round glass. Wishing it was wine. Wishing it was cold. Wishing I could take my friends with me.

Dedicated to coming back, to leaving, to making good of it.
Enabled to all, but some how helpless.
it'll come too soon.
it'll come, that's the scary part.

i wish it wouldn't happen
but it'll be a one off experience
something I can't be me with out
I'll be changed

I know around the corner it'll be me
I know I'm me now, but I'll be different
some how
I hate good byes

it's only for a year,
it's not really good bye
no reason to hate it
no reason at all

Embrace what you have
make it work for you
let the change happen

it'll happen
nothing I can do now
but it's for the best
I'll enjoy it
but i'll miss you all



Hmm, might try writing that into a song
I was just kinda typing and seeing what came out...and that's what happened.

Any way, i must go plan my last 16 days

jonny.

Honey I shrunk the AC30!

Jonny buys an amp

yeah I know..that's the fastest I think I've ever spent money...maybe
N..actually that's a lie.
But it's the fastest search I've ever had for something like this.

As soon as I blew my amp I knew I should pray for it, or me, or a new one..or one of the above.
So I did, and I asked that if I'm meant to have an amp next year, God would provide me with one, and when he did he'd make it painfully obvious that THIS was the one!

So after my cousins 21's last night I headed home, and jumped on trademe (just checking what was on).
And there, RIGHT in the top three on the latest listings was a Vox P10 pathfinder, an amp which i have kind of wanted for a while.
it's only a small thing, 10w solid state.
But it's vox and the quality is amazing for a little amp.
PLUS it's only 4kg, which will help with baggage weight when I move, plus it's in Chch AND it's in the exact price range I prayed for.

So, not seeing that this was THE amp that god had set up for me I prayed on it, and halfway through the sentence "..Please give me an over whelming sense of 'yes' if this is the one God..." I heard a very over powering voice yelling at me "HOW MUCH MORE OBVIOUS CAN I GET!"

So I opened my eyes, and clicked the buynow.

I should be picking it up today, hopefully.
it's a neat wee beast, and I am great full that God set up this deal so quickly, as my cousin has offered to take up my amp for me, but she leaves on Wednesday, so i was worried I wouldn't have time to get one before she left.

Thanks to this amp you can look forward to recordings of song ideas through out next year.

YAY

jonny.

not one of my smarter moments

So, here I was this morning, bored to tears.
Then i think, you know what I could do to pass time, i could Mod my amp.
Basically make it so you can plug it into a cab and use it as a head unit.
Not that it would be of any use at all, because firstly I don't have a cab, and secondly it's a 10w Samic, which won't sound that good no matter what you do to it.

So I open my wee baby up, and have a look inside.
"oh yup," I say "shouldn't be too hard."
I grab the wires which connect the speaker to the amp and cut them (easy enough to get back into place).
I then solder them to a jack out (like that on the body of a guitar).
Using ground and negative, and the signal out as my positive.

I grab the other end of the wires and solder them onto a jack head, using again the ground as the neg, and the signal as the pos.
Thinking, when I put this jack into this input it'll be just like having the wires connected.

So I do this, and go to try it out.
I plug it in, and hook it upto a perfectly working cab (one of my dads oldies).
I go to flick the on switch, but it moves away from me. So I use my finger the secure the beast,
and my thumb to flick the switch.
BAM!...i'm now connected to the mains.
In NZ that's 240v

So that was fun.

I stand up as fast as I can, this takes me away from the shock and my arm only buzzes a little.

Now, i'm not sure exactly where I went wrong (I've run this whole thing in my head so many times)
but some where between opening up the amp, and plugging myself into the wall i went wrong.
And...sad to say, today was the day I blew up my first amp.

So yes, i am currently ampless again, which is lame.
So, if any one's got an amp they'd want to give me...I'm open for nearly anything right now.
How ever, if you have something that's like a 5w all tube deal that'd be good haha.

okay
Cheers for your pitty, as I hope your feeling right now.

jonny.

Old practise photos

Hello

This is a post that Gaz (our official band photographer) tried to upload a while ago, but failed, so here are some photos.
These photos are about...5 - 6 months old, and unfortunatly Andrew isn't in this bunch of photos, but I hope that wont hold back your enjoyment of these photos.
Thanks again Gaz for these photos.

Jonny.

HEY:D
Its Gareth here iv taken photos of AirPlay, and here are some of them just doing there thing. These were taken earlyer this year while they were just working out some songs. Enjoy.
p.s. sorry bout the camera shake on some of them
Gareth

"The Rotating Unfinished"

This is called "The Rotating Unfinished"

Please blame all retarded film work on Anton Harlo

Enjoy

Jonny

Stevo and the gig

well as jonny will o doubt write about the gig this afternoon i thought i'd get in there first and add my two cents.

it actually went really well, a fair few people turned up and seemed to enjoy the music so claps for jonny and his organization and commitment to make all this happen (claps to computer screen for a few moments)

i have had some comments on the band that i shall pass onto you sometime as well jonny. i'll leave the rest of the narration of the gig to jonny as i'm sure he has a lot to say on the matter.

and btw, the band promo video should go up on this site sometime soon (won't it Jonny?... hint hint)

oh yeah, and i would like to extend the beforesaid congratulations to the rest of the band, you guys did great:)

stevo out

Jonny's talk;

Hello, I hijacked Steve's entry hehe (because apparently i can do that).
yeah the gig went really well, and it was a loooot of fun.

The video will be up here as the coming week's video of the week.

but yeah, everything just went right today..well, most things haha.
There was a point where Mr Morrow shot some smoke into the room, and as awesome as that is, it clogs up my throat, so during the next song I was kinda/really flat during the hard core bit, which wasn't so much fun to hear back haha.

Unfortunately the recording of it didn't work so well, so I'm not sure if the live DVD thing is possible as this stage, but I'll see what i can do.

but yeah, I'd just love to thank the band for being awesome...because you guys all are!

Oh and I've started writing for the next album, here's a taste of my latest song/start of a song thing;

The cameras on
Don't make your mistake
the cameras on
don't make your mistake

When you're you're all alone
there's no one to blame

The videos on
don't mess up now
they're watching you
in here some how

When you see your close
you'll hit the ground

The cameras on
the cameras on

Hope every one who saw it today had a good time, and I look forward to performing for you all again at some point (as do all the other guys I'm sure).

Jonny/Steve'o

Confusion

Ah, I keep thinking that tomorrow is the gig.
It's so weird, I've woken up for the last three days thinking, "oh man! Playing tomorrow!" and of course a few seconds later I'm disappointed.
how ever! it's only one more sleep before we play, I are VERY excited.
I am excited cow...excited cow is excited.

This deserves a story.

Once upon a time there was a small cow, his name was Jolly the horse, a very suitable name for a cow really. but it was okay, because his parents didn't like him so much, which is why they gave him a name that people would point and laugh at him for.
Unfortunately for the parents Jolly The horse found great joy in the fact that even his name could bring a smile to the faces of his pares.
So Jolly would spend his days introducing himself to people, again and again, and as they laughed at his miss fortune, he would walk away with a smile on his face.

moral of the story is that a smile will make any bad situation seem like mere water, and you are the ducks back when you smile.

.....ah.....jonny.

YAY GIG!

oOoooo

Creeepy

Jonny

The buzzards

i shut my window, this tells my body it is night, this tells my brain it is time to wake up.
I open a new text document
"Wish i had word..." I utter, annoyed at the copy of windows I have for not being legal.
I boycott all foods other than crackers and tea.
It is time to edit.

Mission; one hour worth of film to go behind the gig.
Recourses; Avid 3.5 and my production studio.

this wouldn't be hard, if I had more than a week.

Times a wasting, must get editing.

*Click...open...ignore....yes to all....How To Dig A Hole.*

Jonny.

One practise left

time is drawing near, and things have JUST started building up.
Stage set up for example is going to be a mission.
i plan to Mic EVERYTHING so that I can film it all in perfect quality audio.
Also there are about 15 used channels of Mics, and DI'd things, so YAAY!
Techy's dream.

Also i just realized that we have ONE and only one practice left haha.

that's not scary at allll... :P

Any way, our set list is as follows (some songs might get moved around)

- All it perfect
- Own Song
- mote/the panda song (not recorded)
- Perk
- We All lived Backwards
- Relative I (not recorded)
- The Rotating unfinished
- Happy Happy the bug man (Not recorded, acoustic)
- For The Crash (solo Piano and vocals)

I'm almost positive I'm missing something haha, but I guess I'll find out next time we have a practice.

until then, enjoy your day.

Jonny.

EP Cover

Album artwork is now complete!

the tabs are for foldings sake.



Enjoy

jonny.

9th November

Hello all

Well I've finally got an announcement worth making;

*clears throat*

AIRPLAY WILL BE PLAYING THE GIG IN THE DRAMA ROOM OF RICCARTON HIGH SCHOOL AT 12PM ON THE NINTH OF NOVEMBER!

Tickets are a dollar, because space is limited.

but whats a dollar really.

Any way, I will be back with more artwork.
EP is nearly ready to be released, which is convenient because I'm releasing it at the gig.

ON THE 9TH!

Jonny.

All is perfect

Picture a world with out war,
with out famine, with out missfortune,
nothings out of place.

Well obviously that wont be happening any time soon.

This weeks video of the week is the opening track from our EP, named All Is Perfect.
It's about such a world, or at least the illusion of one.

it's meant to just set the scene for the rest of the EP.

The concept is taken from Animal Farm..so any one who knows the story of that will know what Im going on about.
otherwise, i hope you enjoy it.

Jonny.

it is finished!

it is finished!

The Music of AirPlay's self produced EP "How To Dig A Hole" is now complete.

the art isn't finished yet, and to be honest I'm not so hot with that side of things, SO if you have any suggestions, or eve pictures you would like us to consider as a cover, then feel free to send them to us on the site mail address.

mean while, here's a photo of Jonny GreenWood

Time Broken Music Box

i was working on the EP, just mastering etc, when I got an idea for a song.
So it is now going on the EP.
This is just another reason for me to love my keyboard.

I hope you enjoy it.

It's called;

"Time Broken Music Box."

(and I should warn you that this is a little odd for the album, I'm not planning to have any other pieces like this on it at the moment)




Enjoy
jonny.

EP UPDATE

Very close to being ready - just need album artwork, and you're more than welcome to send in suggestions if you want, please send them into the site address on the right hand side of your screen.
Also, one remaining vocal line to go.

EP

howdy

just a quick note to say that the EP
"how to dig a hole"
is near completion.

Still working on the art work a little - I'm thinking something to do with Pandas, pandas are cute.
So that shouldn't be too far away.

There will be some tracks available for download at some point.

Hmm, I got to get back to mastering

Enjoy

Jonny.

Shortie mysteries

Those of us who have been subjected to the horror that is "Shortland street" will know that recently there have been a number of mysterious murders occurring.

The "official" website has this posted as the biggest mystery the show has seen in it's life, spanning the past 15 years.
not even the writers know what is going to happen (apparently...although, by now I'm sure they're used to that).

From what i understand, involved in the murder there is;

• a rubber tube
• the body is always missing
  

there are many theories as to who it is, and many theories of how this is happening.

In this post I will express my own theory.

"jonnys theory of the Shortie murders"

lets weigh up the evidence, tube, no body. So far, nothing that convincing.

We have caught a few characters acking shady, although this has either been explained in episodes following, or is simply brushed off, because many of the characters are shady in the first place.

So what I propose is this;

These are not murders at all!

These are simply a bunch of suicides, all committed in an unusually similar fashion.

here's how they happened -

firstly, get one rubber tube, from the conveniently placed hospital on set.

Tie one end of this tube around your throat, and the other (with rope or twine) to something solid, a car, a building, a lamp post etc.

open your back door and take 90 paces back wards.

Sprint the 90 paces back towards the back door as fast as you can.

On the 90th step the rube will tighten, breaking your neck instantly, the rubber tube will not be able to support the impact, and will rip off the rope (leaving no evidence of it).

The fours of the impact will also fling you back towards the post, taking you away from your back door (insuring no one will find you, as they never seem to go out side to check).

And this, is how people have been dieing on Shortie.

jonny.

hehe...AWESOME!

A while ago my mate Chris and I decided this needed doing.

We only got half way (there was meant to be a full on body kit) but it was raining, and his mum needed to borrow his car....etc...then we couldn'tbe bothered putting it all back on.
but...i personally think it awesome.






jonny

unreasonable people

.....

they annoy me.

Jonny.

Photos

hello

No video as of yet, but we do have photos of the performance i wrote about a few posts ago.

So enjoy.