RSS Feed for KTP & The Elements http://www.the-elements.co.uk The Elements' gigging schedule is looking much healthier at the moment. The band, in particular, can... http://www.the-elements.co.uk/index.jsp After several months of little visible on-line activity (the band's been busy - honest!), lots of ne... http://www.the-elements.co.uk/index.jsp Two new songs have been released onto the site and on MySpace. Crash & Burn is a brand new versi... http://www.the-elements.co.uk/index.jsp Just like buses, you don't get any for a while and then four come along at once! Katie Parker & ... http://www.the-elements.co.uk/index.jsp Whilst it's quiet on the gig front (mostly because Alex is on holiday - twice! - and Martin is getti... http://www.the-elements.co.uk/index.jsp There's not been a lot to report at camp Elements recently. The band are still active rehearsing and... http://www.the-elements.co.uk/index.jsp Katie Parker & The Elements have come second in Capital FM's competition to find a support band ... http://www.the-elements.co.uk/index.jsp Under circumstances ranking way beyond the term 'out of the blue', Katie Parker & The Elements r... http://www.the-elements.co.uk/index.jsp After a long search, Katie Parker & The Elements have finally acquired a guitarist in the shape ... http://www.the-elements.co.uk/index.jsp Katie Parker & The Elements have signed up to NME's Breaking Bands contest to win a chance to pl... http://www.the-elements.co.uk/index.jsp Katie Parker & The Elements are proud to announce the release of their debut EP, The Modern Esca... http://www.the-elements.co.uk/index.jsp Katie Parker & The Elements announce the release of their EP, The Modern Escape, on Sunday 25th ... http://www.the-elements.co.uk/index.jsp As I write this bit of news, we are currently standing at number 20 in this months Pop World Promote... http://www.the-elements.co.uk/index.jsp Katie Parker & The Elements have signed up to 7Digital's excellent Indiestore service in readine... http://www.the-elements.co.uk/index.jsp Katie Parker & The Elements would like to wish everyone a Happy New Year. With many plans afoo... http://www.the-elements.co.uk/index.jsp The Elements' website now contains mobile content specifically for PDA and Smartphone users. Althoug... http://www.the-elements.co.uk/index.jsp Katie Parker & The Elements' MySpace location has moved. We can now be found at www.myspace.com/... http://www.the-elements.co.uk/index.jsp The site now features RSS 2.0 Feeds (Really Simple Syndication) for the news (this page) and blog pa... http://www.the-elements.co.uk/index.jsp Well not so much whisky, more Bailey's because that was all that was left in Martin's drinks cabinet... http://www.the-elements.co.uk/index.jsp Katie Parker & The Elements' all-new website is now live. After several months of development, w... http://www.the-elements.co.uk/index.jsp Well I have a new amp on its way that should be more functional than the orange :D I also have some strings for Al's acoustic and some drum sticks for Martin. When I was trying out new gear in Steven... http://www.the-elements.co.uk/diary.jsp#91 Al will be proud because I am cycling to college every day: Only 10 miles there and back but it keeps me fit enough to play guitar! Martin will have severe symptoms of depression when he finds out the... http://www.the-elements.co.uk/diary.jsp#90 In an unprecedented turn of events, I have signed up for a gym. I've been mooting it for a while and I went a few times to my local one with some friends and enjoyed it - especially the sauna/pool/ste... http://www.the-elements.co.uk/diary.jsp#88 This is a little note to our 16year wonderlad guitarist, 'bout time you stuck yer oar in in the diary young man... (note: smarty pants Alex got 10 straight A+'s in his exams, jeeezzzz I remember the d... http://www.the-elements.co.uk/diary.jsp#87 Yeah but we're not... KT and I have jetted off and wont be back till the 14th Sept. Well, what with the others having Soooo many hols we decided to have a share of the sun before we go mad. When we co... http://www.the-elements.co.uk/diary.jsp#86 Well, it rocked. Two weeks in the US with unlimited use of my brother's cars (he lives in Boston) and a 1500-mile road-trip to Niagara and back, it's been great. Niagara Falls rocks. No really, it roc... http://www.the-elements.co.uk/diary.jsp#85 I leave in one hours' time to get hitched. Well the first one at the registry office. The official ceremony is on Monday. If the site goes down between now and Tuesday morning, erm..., tough. http://www.the-elements.co.uk/diary.jsp#84 The new songs are coming along nicely. Alex popped in yesterday in between coming back from Montenegro and legging it to France to lay down the guitar tracks. Impressively, he got all the songs done, ... http://www.the-elements.co.uk/diary.jsp#83 Well I've sorted out the mobile area now. The music links work and the rest of the content is now up-to-date, although I can't tell if anyone reads it as the internal site monitoring has gone up the s... http://www.the-elements.co.uk/diary.jsp#82 Crash & Burn and Lying Game now have drums and are sounding good (but I would say that). We managed to cram in setting up the drums, miking them up and recording the two tracks into yesterday even... http://www.the-elements.co.uk/diary.jsp#81 Yep. That was me. I broke the website. I was making some configuration changes to allow me to add two more domains and websites to the server and I, erm, broke the lot and had to go screaming to suppo... http://www.the-elements.co.uk/diary.jsp#80 You may or may not notice there's been a bit of a spring clean around the place. The front page has been de-cluttered, the video on the music page that loads even when it's been told not to (very anno... http://www.the-elements.co.uk/diary.jsp#79 I'm okay about the wedding but I think Martin should get a stand-in for the honeymoon... ;-) http://www.the-elements.co.uk/diary.jsp#78 This really isn't going well. A gig at the Hertford Marquee has reared it's head and it, again, clashes with the other band, although on this occasion I have time to find a dep. But Alex can't make it... http://www.the-elements.co.uk/diary.jsp#77 I currently play in two bands. The Elements and a local covers band. The covers band is fairly busy gigging (it's easy to get gigs when you're not playing originals) and we had two gigs at the weekend... http://www.the-elements.co.uk/diary.jsp#76 Alan did indeed thrash me very fairly and squarely at pool. I like to think I'm OK at pool having spent years being a member of a snooker club, but I really did play like fifteen piles of steaming you... http://www.the-elements.co.uk/diary.jsp#75 In one word. Fantastic. We were second on and started a little despondently as there were not many punters in and we were following a very acoustic act. Two lads with guitars (fair play to them). How... http://www.the-elements.co.uk/diary.jsp#74 I really need to do something about the mobile area of the site. I keep forgetting it's there and, judging by the volume of errors coming to my inbox, somebody (who isn't Alan) is using it. Basically,... http://www.the-elements.co.uk/diary.jsp#73 We're ready, it's Alex's inaugural gig next Sunday and today we rehearsed till our fingers bled and Martin went a deep red colour and sweated a lot. Not only are we parading Alex for the first time w... http://www.the-elements.co.uk/diary.jsp#72 It's 2.54am (yes, I know the server says 1.54am - it's running on GMT and I can't be bothered to sort it out for BST) and I'm still in the office having just set up replication across a load of MySQL ... http://www.the-elements.co.uk/diary.jsp#71 Last weekend saw me dressed as a soldier (again) holding back a diseased crowd on Tower Bridge in London, it's for a film called 'Doomsday' with Bob (me old coksparra) Hoskins and Sean (son of Dr Who)... http://www.the-elements.co.uk/diary.jsp#70 This server biz may well lead to a breakdown and also, mate, a little tip: if you're gonna smoke and don't want your little daughter to find out and issue a first-class kick in the pants, best you do... http://www.the-elements.co.uk/diary.jsp#69 This time just under twelve hours and I'm getting heartily sick of it. I've checked the server, the logs, etc., and there's nothing awry with either my code or the web application configuration. FTP a... http://www.the-elements.co.uk/diary.jsp#68 Just nosing around the site stats and found a couple of referrals from Yahoo's search engine looking for our new boy Alex, so I thought I'd have a look at the search query. The first couple of results... http://www.the-elements.co.uk/diary.jsp#67 The spam bots have finally figured out there's some submit forms on this site. Last night we received some fascinating feedback about how great the site is, but would we like to buy some diamond-shape... http://www.the-elements.co.uk/diary.jsp#66 With the pressure off from the possibility of the short-notice Capital FM gig, it's time to focus on pastures groovy. Unfortunately the aforementioned groovy pastures involve a lot of work for the ban... http://www.the-elements.co.uk/diary.jsp#65 The voting for the Captial FM Competition closes tomorrow (Friday 20th April), so if any of you out there in the ether want to vote there's not much time left. We had a very successful rehearsal th... http://www.the-elements.co.uk/diary.jsp#64 We're now three days into the voting in the final for the Capital FM competition. There is, of course, no indication of who's winning and, given the gig is in a week's time, there's not much time for ... http://www.the-elements.co.uk/diary.jsp#63 The line-up is complete and Alex is learning the stuff, so we are booking the gigs... Last night there was talk of a mini-tour of sunny Cornwall and we all could do with a holiday - except Alex who ju... http://www.the-elements.co.uk/diary.jsp#62 Cycling, yes at the tender age of forty something I am on me bike... near 25 miles today in wind and rain... jeez I know its not really rock and roll in the historic sense but what with the AtomicBlo... http://www.the-elements.co.uk/diary.jsp#61 Yo Yo! We had another great gig last night at the Portland, it was loads of fun and the other bands were splendid. We'd like to say thankyou to Angel Soul in particular for being such great support a... http://www.the-elements.co.uk/diary.jsp#60 Sincere apologies to those of you who are trying to use the mobile part of the site. The gallery page is refusing to compile, according to the raft of emails turning up in my inbox (I've not changed t... http://www.the-elements.co.uk/diary.jsp#59 The feedback area has returned to the site. Feel free to leave us a message which, after we've given it the once-over to make sure it's not just a raft of swear words and/or one of the many spam bots ... http://www.the-elements.co.uk/diary.jsp#58 Its Wednesday and we are expecting a delivery... A sewing Machine!!! This is very exciting because it means that the next phase of the release can happen. In order to grab attention to our EP we have ... http://www.the-elements.co.uk/diary.jsp#57 Hi there it's me - finally. I'm not just a figment of the guys' imagination! Just wanted to say how great the audience were at the Kudos Bar @ ARU Tuesday night. The atmosphere was really chilled out ... http://www.the-elements.co.uk/diary.jsp#56 Better add my bit - poor Martin seems to have to do all the talking... Last night's gig was our first time out with the new material and many thanks to Bern for filling in. It went really well; great ... http://www.the-elements.co.uk/diary.jsp#55 The CDs are now ready for tomorrow's gig. Alan and Katie slavishly spent today duplicating the CDs (50 so far) and printing the covers (see design in news or on the left if you're reading the front pa... http://www.the-elements.co.uk/diary.jsp#53 Apologies to any of you who experience difficulties accessing the site. The web server the site is hosted on has been moved to a new network at the hosting farm. In my usual style, I forgot to ask Ala... http://www.the-elements.co.uk/diary.jsp#52 With the release of The Modern Escape finally out of the door, it's time for a spot of chilling. I've easily spent over 30-plus hours over a series of weekends and evenings getting the mixdowns of the... http://www.the-elements.co.uk/diary.jsp#51 Honest 'guv! The last of the vox tracks for our final EP song, The Stealer, have been recorded and all that is left is for them to be shoehorned onto my laptop and mixed down in Cubase. Mixdowns for C... http://www.the-elements.co.uk/diary.jsp#50 This mixing lark is knackering. Having spent the last five-and-a-half hours sat in front of my PC pushing Cubase's virtual faders, effects and editors around my woefully inadequate 1280x1024 screen to... http://www.the-elements.co.uk/diary.jsp#48 And so it goes on as my carreer as a SA (Supporting Artiste) goes from strength to strength. On Sunday I was shivering outside Waterloo Station dodging a BMW whilst working on The Bourne Ultimatum (Ma... http://www.the-elements.co.uk/diary.jsp#42 Im ashamed to reveal that a certain member of the band gave in to temptation last night and polished off near half a bottle of single malt. Jeeezzz.... the member in question then proceeded to jog aro... http://www.the-elements.co.uk/diary.jsp#41 KT and I met with our old Pal Jenny (aka JenJens) today. JJ was the Bass player with 'Pretty Vacant' the old covers band that KT used to drum with. (I was chief van driver and bouncer). JJ is now stud... http://www.the-elements.co.uk/diary.jsp#40 The utter perfectionist which is Katie has been stuck in the make-shift studio now for the best part of three days, doing vocal take after take and filling our recorder up to the gunwales. But finally... http://www.the-elements.co.uk/diary.jsp#39 I'm back and totally knackered... All I can say (because the film company swears you to secrecy) is that I stood around a lot with a big gun, in a very hot uniform... The one thing that I can absolutl... http://www.the-elements.co.uk/diary.jsp#37 Despite the aforementioned six-string-based shortage, we're pressing on with The Modern Escape. The main acoustic guitars were done yesterday - twice, in fact, because the riff got altered - and in-ro... http://www.the-elements.co.uk/diary.jsp#36 I no longer have to wear Rabbit skins.. because I have been promoted from Ice Warrior to Policeman. My outfit now consists of a (very) heavy (and hot) green full length jacket with brass buttons and s... http://www.the-elements.co.uk/diary.jsp#35 It's official! The Elements' bass and acoustic guitar player, Alan, is going to be in a film called The Golden Compass with Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig (the geezer from Layer Cake and Casino Royale... http://www.the-elements.co.uk/diary.jsp#34 Well it's up and looking fine, so I thought I would add my two-penneth (old money expression, dont worry about it!). Our heartfelt thanks go out to our very own drummer and web developer, Martin, for... http://www.the-elements.co.uk/diary.jsp#31 ... is approaching readiness. We've decided to focus on completing three songs in order to complete an EP ready for our gig at The Watershed (see gigs). The guitars, percussion and vocals are now comp... http://www.the-elements.co.uk/diary.jsp#28 Sporting a spanking Roland VS-2480 24-track recorder, a bank of microphones, a giant thick Indian cotton curtain and Alan and Katie's living room, the new EP is officially underway. The tracks bein... http://www.the-elements.co.uk/diary.jsp#23 The Underworld gig in Camden went OK, despite the fact that I think we played to slightly more people than we have in the band. What is it with London venues and being disorganised, esepcially when it... http://www.the-elements.co.uk/diary.jsp#26 It all started out so promising: an all-expenses paid two-night stay at the Holiday Inn, a showcase gig at The Cavern, Liverpool and a chance to get to know the the leading bands in the Rockstar Lotte... http://www.the-elements.co.uk/diary.jsp#27