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Storm of Crows @stormofcrows.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

It's just over a week until the listening party for my album. Join me (please!) at 8pm BST on the 29th July to listen to the album in full, chat with me about it, and...err...meet all the amazing celebrities who will also be there (he lied, convincingly). mattkik.bandcamp.com/merch/eponym...

mattkik.bandcamp.com

Eponymous Listening Party from Matt Kik

Listening Party from Matt Kik.

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Storm of Crows @stormofcrows.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

I can, but I was going to wait until Bandcamp Friday as I have a few songs on my list I'm leaving until then. It's a fantastic song though so I'll buy it today if you want.

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Storm of Crows @stormofcrows.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

@theapplauseband.bsky.social have a new song out today. Listen Up is a rocker of a track with fantastic vocals and a great guitar solo. Go and grab it...in two weeks! (on the next Bandcamp Friday, which is what I'm going to do 😁). theapplause.bandcamp.com/track/listen...

theapplause.bandcamp.com

Listen Up, by The Applause

track by The Applause

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Storm of Crows @stormofcrows.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

The front cover of my album shows all my guitars and pedals out, but when you flip the cover over, you see everything in the same place but in their cases. Standing all the guitars on a rack that's not designed to hold them like this was truly terrifying.

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Storm of Crows @stormofcrows.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

A better Superman than Dean Cain.

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Storm of Crows @stormofcrows.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

It's just one month until the release of my Eponymous album! Click here (mattkik.bandcamp.com/album/eponym...) to like, follow, dare I say pre-order? And in the meantime, listen out on the indie radio stations as I sent the second song to them today!

mattkik.bandcamp.com

Eponymous, by Matt Kik

12 track album

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Storm of Crows @stormofcrows.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

In less than four hours! 👇👇👇👇

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Storm of Crows @stormofcrows.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Ruin a book's title by replacing one word with "butthole": A Tale of Two Buttholes

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Storm of Crows @stormofcrows.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Surely there's at least one more (thank you for your order) or maybe two (you just paid £x.xx on PayPal).

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Storm of Crows @stormofcrows.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

If I have the forethought I take a picture of the settings on my phone for later. Most of the time I forget though, and then the next time spend hours and hours trying to faithfully recreate whatever I had. Usually failing. 😂

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Storm of Crows @stormofcrows.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

The Mira is so good! It's almost always on. I like the Slicer, I just need to spend more time with it to get to know it (and I don't because I'm lazy). It's one where you struggle to recreate the wonderful things you see in the product demos. Or at least, I do.

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Storm of Crows @stormofcrows.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Remember when I posted a few weeks ago saying "Gee, I've not changed my pedalboard in 18 months...I'm cured!" I wasn't cured. Here's the latest iteration of the board. Gone are the noise killer and Boss RV-3, welcome the Mosaic and Fart Pedal! (Two gag pedals on one board now!)

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Storm of Crows @stormofcrows.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

On the way to town we drove towards a digital sign that simply said "save lives". I though "well sure, I'd have a go if the opportunity presented itself, but I don't think I need a sign to prompt me". As we passed, the words "seat belts" appeared above it.

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Storm of Crows @stormofcrows.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

We had them forecast yesterday and then they never showed up. Put all my washing out inside as well. 🫤

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Storm of Crows @stormofcrows.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Sunny and relaxing, although I've got to do a long drive to take my daughter to a swimming thing later (boo!) but we get to go out for dinner on the way home (hooray!) How about yourself?

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Storm of Crows @stormofcrows.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

I'm left handed so have never really bothered going into actual guitar shops. I can only try so many cheap black Squier strats. Still, it is a shame they're disappearing.

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Matt Kik @mattkik.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

My acoustic guitar, a Fylde Falstaff, bought by my Dad in the mid-seventies for around £275. When he died I flipped it upside-down as I'm a lefty, and this is the only acoustic I play today. I still refer to it as my Dad's guitar, and it is the most beautiful instrument in the world (to me).

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Storm of Crows @stormofcrows.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

I was happy to get it written, as it was the last of my four for the album. It's not my favourite though. But I did love the way the other guys added all the silly voice-overs. Especially Paul's train announcer bit, had me in hysterics. 😂

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Storm of Crows @stormofcrows.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Ha ha, I'm not sure a song calling people bastards is our happiest, but it does make me giggle. Thank you very much for including us on your list!

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Storm of Crows @stormofcrows.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

I happened to need a strobe tuner for setting up a guitar just as these came out and couldn't resist it as a) it's very good and b) it's very shiny!

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Storm of Crows @stormofcrows.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

If I can be bothered, it may be joined by The Fart Pedal at some point. 😂

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Storm of Crows @stormofcrows.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Holy crap, it's been over eighteen months since I last changed something on my pedalboard. Could it be that Version 6.0 is finally "the one"? 🤔

A guitar pedalboard featuring (from left to right, top to bottom) HX Stomp, Boss RV-3, Donner Noise Killer, Source Audio EQ2, Walrus Audio Mira Compressor, my own "The Nothing" pedal, (next row) Boss SL-2, Boss SY-1, Morningstar MC6 mk2 with GFI Triple Switch below, Xotic XW-1 Wah, Digitech FreqOut, and a Peterson Strobe LE with a home made tap tempo switch below.

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Storm of Crows @stormofcrows.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Ooh yay, still making our mark on the chart every once in a while!

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Storm of Crows @stormofcrows.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

An advert in Cornwall. I'll send a CD to the first person to find it. Take a photo of yourself with it! 😁

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Storm of Crows @stormofcrows.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Good morning Oli! Sorry I don't say hi much any more. The band is pretty much dormant so I'm not doing much on social media these days, but I do still kick about once in a while. I hope all is going well in TFSC Land!

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Storm of Crows @stormofcrows.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

No lefties? Alas! Then it'll have to be...

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Storm of Crows @stormofcrows.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Wow. He's in and out and in and out. Did they confuse him for a squeezebox?

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Storm of Crows @stormofcrows.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

If I had put any thought into it at all I would have. The Beatles are my default.

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Storm of Crows @stormofcrows.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

This is live now. Come on over and hear the new album!

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Storm of Crows @stormofcrows.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Well, you say you "rarely" use loops in your music. I literally never used them in mine, so my music must be better than yours, right?

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Storm of Crows @stormofcrows.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Alas, I don't even drink alcohol. Pepsi Max for me. 👍

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Storm of Crows @stormofcrows.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

My wife's away for the weekend so I'm doing everything and there's more than a usual Saturday morning. We're off to a fairground in the afternoon though, and it's pizza and movie night in the evening, so all fun from this point on!

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Storm of Crows @stormofcrows.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

If only. I've been up since 4:30am for the swim run, put the wash out, done a bit of mixing, picked my eldest up, took both girls for breakfast, quickly home, then to the chemist for eye drops for eldest, then dropped youngest off at gymnastics, and now I get to chill for two hours. Then back out!

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Storm of Crows @stormofcrows.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Pah, not likely. Had a listen and it's bloody great, so I pre-ordered the album instead. Have a follow, too. 👍

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Storm of Crows @stormofcrows.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

I have copies of all of this stuff. It's good stuff. Buy his stuff!

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Storm of Crows @stormofcrows.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Can you edit a post on Bluesky? You put www as the start of the web address and I don't think browsers will like that much.

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Storm of Crows @stormofcrows.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

For a less egocentric answer, I'm probably going to get Cry For Mercy's new album: cryformercy3.bandcamp.com/album/this-m...

cryformercy3.bandcamp.com

This Machine, by Cry for Mercy

12 track album

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Storm of Crows @stormofcrows.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Brand new (two and ah half years old) from us, our latest (debut) album Twenty-Five Years! (More like twenty-eight years now, but we're not changing the name of the album as time progresses). stormofcrows.bandcamp.com/album/twenty...

stormofcrows.bandcamp.com

Twenty-Five Years, by Storm of Crows

13 track album

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Storm of Crows @stormofcrows.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

It's #BandcampFriday! "Who cares?" I hear you shout. "I do!" I reply. "Well what should we buy?" you enquire. "How about checking out our debut album, Twenty-Five Years?" I suggest. "Is it any good?" you wonder. "Ask no more, check out this video to find out why it's so flippin' good!" I yell!

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