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Storm of Crows

@stormofcrows.bsky.social
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We're a rock band from Sheffield and Stockport. Our next single, The Storm Has Come, is out 24.4.24. StormOfCrows.bandcamp.com Posts by Matt

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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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 18/05/2025
No lefties? Alas! Then it'll have to be...
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Storm of Crows @stormofcrows.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
New Pedal Day!
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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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Storm of Crows @stormofcrows.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
I decided my first electric needed a refresh so I bought a new scratch plate, knobs, switch, and pickup covers. That was this morning's project, and I think it came out okay!
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Storm of Crows @stormofcrows.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Working with my new (old) mandolin today.
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Storm of Crows @stormofcrows.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
I got a new PC from quietpc.com. Thankfully it's not as big as the box suggests but damn, it's SILENT! This'll make recording acoustic guitar a hundred times easier!
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Storm of Crows @stormofcrows.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Kid crush, go!
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Storm of Crows @stormofcrows.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Behold! My lovely Sire Marcus Miller M5 bass! No, I'm not a bassist, but I fancied one a few years ago and figured I'd grab a five string. Every so often I go through a stint of reaching for that instead of a guitar. It's fun to noodle one. Makes my guitar feel puny when I go back to it afterwards.😂
A Sire Marcus Miller 5 string M5 bass, in swamp ash (sorry, can't help you with that colour really. It's a kind of faded blue...turquoise sort of affair?) The bass is in front of my Christmas tree because it was up when I took the photo a few years ago.
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Storm of Crows @stormofcrows.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
It's the Tannon Butthead. You might not be ready for it yet, but your kids are gonna love it.
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Storm of Crows @stormofcrows.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
In twenty-eight years of playing I've never once taken a guitar in for a setup. I can just about do it myself (I think, having tried to learn on the one I built) but I've not tried it on any of my other guitars. Well today I've sent my ES-335 in for a setup. I get it back tomorrow...🤞
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Storm of Crows @stormofcrows.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
The Applause @theapplauseband.bsky.social have a new song out today (at bloody last!) It is rocky, it is guitarry, it is great. I'm listening to it on LOUD! Check it out (and get it on Bandcamp, guys!) open.spotify.com/track/6srxoi... Don't make us wait years for song number three, okay? 😁
A screenshot from my phone showing that I'm listening to Road Sign by The Applause. The volume indicator shows I'm listening on full volume.
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Storm of Crows @stormofcrows.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
You've been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who's coming to save you?
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Storm of Crows @stormofcrows.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
The White Lion Pub, Stockport, May 1999. Played for free on the promise of free drinks. No landlord, no drinks. Next time we saw him we mentioned it and he invited us back. Free drinks, but we sucked, so no third gig. 😂
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Storm of Crows @stormofcrows.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
It's a good job I don't give a toss about Spotify streams. You're all listening to your CDs and downloads though, right? 🧐
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Storm of Crows @stormofcrows.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
TONIGHT!
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Storm of Crows @stormofcrows.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Mine would be Who'll be a Soldier by Gentleman Soldier. It was my Dad's folk band around forty years ago and they produced and pressed their own vinyl album in 1985. It's not available anywhere (except maybe Discogs) but I love it as I can still hear my Dads voice even though he's now gone.
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Storm of Crows @stormofcrows.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
I don't think I can finish my dinner. My last chicken nugget looks like the Millennium Falcon.
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Storm of Crows @stormofcrows.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Working hard or hardly working...
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Storm of Crows @stormofcrows.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Punctuation matters.
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Storm of Crows @stormofcrows.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Nah, I've got my eye on another Harley Benton actually, but purely because it's utterly beautiful and I've never played a maple neck before. I still don't have any room left though, and really don't need another strat.
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Storm of Crows @stormofcrows.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
I've been a guitarist since I was 17 so I don't feel the inclination to switch over completely, though I do enjoy a good noodle on bass. I got myself a Sire Marcus Miller M5 a few years ago and while I maybe should have got the 4 string instead, it is a beautiful instrument to play.
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Storm of Crows @stormofcrows.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
You've seen all mine before, and you've probably seen this photo already too, but it's the latest shot of all (well, most) of mine. I don't know what's worse, that it took me about three hours to set up, take, and edit this photo, or that I absolutely loved doing it. 😂
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Storm of Crows @stormofcrows.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
THE NOTHING!
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Storm of Crows @stormofcrows.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Snow day!
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Storm of Crows @stormofcrows.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Yeah, I've built a few of them now. One was for a competition, two were for friends, and I have the original and the "all yellow" one. As you can see from the innards though, it really does nothing. 😂
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Storm of Crows @stormofcrows.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Guitars!
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Storm of Crows @stormofcrows.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
I just took a new family photo a few weeks ago so I have to post that. 😁
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Storm of Crows @stormofcrows.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Right, I'm off for a bit. If you want to find me, I'll be behind this beauty. 😁
Matt's beautiful home-built gold SG guitar, with Timrrw Stormcrow written on the headstock. Sorry if you're blind, because it really is a bloody beauty!
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Storm of Crows @stormofcrows.bsky.social · 12/07/2024
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Storm of Crows @stormofcrows.bsky.social · 16/12/2023
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Storm of Crows @stormofcrows.bsky.social · 07/10/2023
WE HAVE A WINNER! Feel free to watch the replay of the live video on our Facebook page, though I did bollocks it up a bit apparently. Still, I shall now contact the winner to discuss...NOTHING! Thank you to all who took part, I shall parcel up the CDs today!
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Storm of Crows @stormofcrows.bsky.social · 07/10/2023
It's stupid'o'clock and this is the world so there's got to be someone else up too, and it's not too late (or early) to have a last minute try to win The Nothing pedal. I'm out of new pictures though so here's the idiot who'll be building it instead. 😁 stormofcrows.bandcamp.com/album/twenty...
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Storm of Crows @stormofcrows.bsky.social · 06/10/2023
Bloody hell Oli, @radiotfsc.bsky.social, the bots sure sprang up on Twitter last month! They're all from September 2023, but none of them have any followers.
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Storm of Crows @stormofcrows.bsky.social · 06/10/2023
It's time for NOTHING! Buy our CD during #BandcampFriday and you could win The Nothing pedal. One lucky(?) winner will get their own Nothing, but also get to choose the colour of the LED, knobs, and the pedal itself. Good luck! You can buy the CD here: stormofcrows.bandcamp.com/album/twenty...
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Storm of Crows @stormofcrows.bsky.social · 04/10/2023
Win...NOTHING! That's right, I'm giving away "The Nothing" pedal to one lucky winner. All you have to do is buy our CD on Bandcamp Friday (6th October) and your name will go into a draw. If you win, I'll build the pedal for you and you can even choose a few custom features!
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Storm of Crows @stormofcrows.bsky.social · 03/10/2023
This was the original wiring, though I've now changed the resistor to dim the LED a bit, and I wired the power socket backwards for a guitar pedal as they're usually centre negative so I've now fixed that. I might actually put it on my pedalboard soon. 😁
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Storm of Crows @stormofcrows.bsky.social · 01/10/2023
A couple of weeks ago I built a guitar pedal called "The Nothing" because when plugged in and turned on... it does nothing. This might be relevant tomorrow...
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Storm of Crows @stormofcrows.bsky.social · 20/09/2023
Jimmy came round today to lay down his bass part and harmony vocal for my song Timeflies! that'll be on album #2. After that we had a dig through the archives and found some songs from twenty years ago or longer that we reckon are worth some consideration. Productive day!
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Storm of Crows @stormofcrows.bsky.social · 13/09/2023
A Storm of Crows!
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Storm of Crows @stormofcrows.bsky.social · 12/09/2023
This is Jack. Jack is a drummer. But Jack isn't any old drummer, oh no. Jack is OUR drummer. That's right. Storm of Crows has a drummer. Repeat, Storm of Crows...HAS A DRUMMER!
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Storm of Crows @stormofcrows.bsky.social · 27/08/2023
Perhaps not too surprisingly, wood rocks!
Matt sat outdoors at a wooden drumkit on a wooden stage with "Storm of Crows" arranged in wooden blocks at the front of the stage.
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Storm of Crows @stormofcrows.bsky.social · 25/08/2023
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Storm of Crows @stormofcrows.bsky.social · 21/08/2023
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