Wednesday, January 24, 2007

New album and track list!




1987.Tracks

Deeper than a smile
Forever and now
Good old days
Ourselves to blame
Homeless
All hair and attitude
Gold digging
Faded Photograph
In your world
The human race
Always here
Pain
Passion didn’t survive

not sure on release dates yet.

Friday, January 19, 2007

FinalDemand News!

We now have pleasure in confirming the following.

FinalDemand have secured a distribution deal with CD-Baby
and also a deal with I-tunes uk to distribute the 2 new Albums.
As part of this deal the back catalogue will also be re-mastered and will be available from September 2007.

This will include the albums.

Fresh From The Bottle 1998

Tracks.

HOOVA NECK
OVERDRIVE
SOMEONE
I AM FOUST
SHE WAS ALWAYS THERE
YOUR TRUST IN HER
HELLO STRANGE PERSON
COMEBACK
FRESH FROM THE BOTTLE
MULTIMEDIA

Dangerous Love 1996

Tracks.

DANGEROUS LOVE
D-LOVE
STILL
TOTAL DISTRACTION
YOU JUST DONĂ‚’T KNOW
TIGER LILLY
I MUST GO


This Land 1994

Tracks.


THIS LAND
MY HEAVEN
HER NEEDS
MIRAGE
STRAY
OLD FLAME
NEW BEGINNING


Peter James-Stephen
1988

Tracks.

LIFT OFF
ELECTRONIC NIGHTMARE
THE CRUEL SEA
TO TRAVEL
DONNA
THE STORY
INTERFACE
DRINK
PARADICE CITY

Wednesday, June 28, 2006

Photo's of Our Delta Lady

Vulcan XH558 Delta Lady

Many of you will know about my other passion in life,
Yes there is another lady in my life as well as my Beautiful wife Sara x.

I'm talking about Delta Lady or Vulcan XH558.
The last airworthy Vulcan B2 Bomber in the world! She is everything British and we need your help now in returning her to flight this Year.!
I have been involved in the project for 5 years now and we are now at the stage of almost roll out after her full Service for return to flight.

Heres the latest on the work so far.

Major Service passes half-way point - May 2006

There's been very significant progress in the six months since the last Newsletter, with the Major Service now past the half-way point. Activity in the hangar at Bruntingthorpe continues apace, with the main effort now focused on airframe structural rectification and enhanced electrical inspection and rectification. A typical example of structural rectification is the repair of cracks in the engine air intakes that arise over time from the aerodynamic punishment that this area of the aircraft takes. Also, as the result of the in-depth inspection of wiring in the wings, it has been decided to replace the vital power cables to the eight Powered Flying Control Units that actuate the elevons.

The Non-Destructive Testing has been completed, with virtually a clean bill-of-health for the aircraft. Over 450 X-ray pictures have been taken of various parts of the structure, with only three minor, repairable, cracks found. Olympus KeyMed has provided vital assistance in the form of intrascopes for the inspection of otherwise inaccessible parts of the structure.

Preparation for the main fatigue life extension modification on the rear spar, “Mod 2222”, has nearly been completed. This involves removing the main bolts that secure the bottom of the wing spar to the centre section of the aircraft. Coventry University is kindly helping us with the supply of very accurate laser-based measuring equipment to ensure that the wing is correctly positioned for this modification.

On aircraft systems, detailed analysis has concluded that some 47 systems are not required in our operation of XH558 under civilian regulations, ranging from the Navigation and Bombing System to the Ration Heaters. One major decision taken was to replace the aircraft's Military Flight System (MFS) with modern equipment. The cost of overhauling the MFS, and maintaining it over the operating life of the aircraft proved prohibitive, many times the cost of replacing the unit with a modern reliable replacement. A Bendix-King heading indicator, and AIM artificial horizon will now be provided for each pilot, with additional navigational data supplied by a Garmin 430 GPS unit.

The deletion of some systems required safety assessment by the Marshall Aerospace Design Office, needing thorough design analysis to ensure that no reduction in safety would occur as the result. (As a policy, nothing will be done to prevent these non-functional systems being reinstalled once the aircraft has finally been grounded, to return XH558 to its original configuration.)

OEMs and servicing partners around the country are hard at work with component and system servicing – “need dates” for these items are now available from the project plan, and our supporting companies are aiming to meet these dates to minimize any project slippage. As an example, work is underway on the re-skinning of our rudder and elevons at Beagle Aircraft in Christchurch , Dorset , and at Air Atlantique in Coventry .

Some other key milestones have been passed in recent weeks. First, we had the delivery back to Bruntingthorpe of the first major overhauled unit, a Chassis Mounted Fuel System, from Goodrich in Hall Green, Birmingham . Second, the first overhauled Airborne Auxiliary Power Pack (a small gas turbine driving an alternator) was successfully run up to speed and tested.

Looking further ahead, planning for the testing and operation of the aircraft is under way. Following submission of our description of the way we are going to operate the aircraft to the CAA, a very helpful review was held at the CAA's headquarters at Gatwick, and the feedback from that meeting is being integrated into our plans. We are now are beginning to plan all the various things that need to be in place to ensure a safe and successful operation as a “one aircraft airline”!

Wednesday, June 07, 2006

Emu Systems Emulator 2 & Ableton Live

Someone asked if I still use my old Emulator 2 the other day. Here she is

I'm using my Emulator 4 Ultra and Emulator X more at the moment but you just cant beat those glorious filters on the E2 I've got quite a large library on 51/4 floppy's It takes an age to load but well worth it.

The string sounds are so beautiful. I record directly in to Ableton Live so once done, I don't need to bother with the E2 again. (Not that she has crashed or let me down) I'm just looking after the old girl! After-all she is 22 years old!! I don't think she will be coming on tour!


Here's a screen dump of a E2 string section recorded in to live for the FD Track Gold digging.

Monday, June 05, 2006

Well it was far to nice this week-end to work on any production..

It looks like summer has arrived at last.

Sat on the Beach most of Saturday with the Grand children (Yes Grand Children) and built a nice big castle!

This week I will start to lay down the music for a new Final Demand Track called Gold Digging.
This was written by Keith some time ago. I like the name as its a play on words with regard to the famous night club Goldiggers. A favorite haunt of ours when we started out as "Athena" way way back in 1987.... That seems like only yesterday to me..

Will post lyrics later and photo's of that Castle....

incidentally. Sincity Records Uk are giving away 4 Songs from our Fresh From The Bottle Album. In .mp3 format
you can listen in, or download at the Finaldemand Music Link to the right.


The tracks included are Someone, Overdrive, Always There and Come Back.
check it out soon.