BlogHide Resteemsavecsans (58)in music • 7 years ago1 SONG IDEA A WEEK IN 2018 // WEEK 2ABC - ALWAYS BE CREATING AT LEAST 1 SONG IDEA A WEEK IN 2018 Hi, we are Avec Sans. In an effort to improve creativity and keep the process of writing our second album fun and fluid we are…avecsans (58)in music • 7 years ago1 SONG IDEA A WEEK IN 2018 // WEEK 1ABC - ALWAYS BE CREATING AT LEAST 1 SONG IDEA A WEEK IN 2018 Hi, we are Avec Sans. In an effort to improve creativity and keep the process of writing our second album fun and fluid we are…avecsans (58)in music • 7 years agoABC - Always Be Creating - 1 song idea a week in 2018ABC - ALWAYS BE CREATINGAt least 1 song idea a week in 2018 AVEC SANS has begun writing the follow up to debut album Heartbreak Hi. Will their New Year's creativity resolution stick? Our first…avecsans (58)in music • 7 years agoPerforming with Belinda Carlisle and Katrina and the WavesThis summer we were invited to play at Bristol Pride supporting Belinda Carlisle and Katrina and the Waves When we got the call to play for Bristol Pride, we of course accepted. It wasn't until…avecsans (58)in music • 7 years agoMaking An Album Cover Ourselves // PART 5 // Designing The PackagingToday we're coving how we took the edited photographs and arranged the text and design onto the packaging. Part 5DESIGNING THE PACKAGING We now had exactly what we needed to start making the…avecsans (58)in music • 7 years agoMaking An Album Cover Ourselves // PART 4 // PhotoshopWe're covering the process of taking a fished photograph and then manipulating it in Photoshop so that it can be used in the album artwork. Part 4Photoshop In order to use these photos we needed…avecsans (58)in music • 8 years agoMaking An Album Cover Ourselves // PART 3 // Getting The ShotToday it's all about the process of taking the perfect photograph for our debut album cover. Part 3Getting The Shot! First up was Alice. We asked her to just start dancing to the songs from the…avecsans (58)in music • 8 years agoMaking An Album Cover Ourselves // PART 2 // The Location & The PhotographerToday we're covering the story of how we found the location for the photo shoot and the photographer. Part 2Finding the location and photographer we needed to make it all happen. At the end…avecsans (58)in music • 8 years agoMaking An Album Cover Ourselves // PART 1 // The BackstoryJust over a year ago my band Avec Sans released our debut album independently. We did everything ourselves. Wrote, recorded, produced, mixed and mastered all of the tracks and even did the album…avecsans (58)in music • 8 years agoHow overnight (and totally by accident) we had 7 major labels email us wanting to talk!I want to tell you about how we became a band and then overnight (and totally by accident) we had 7 major labels email us wanting to talk! Alice and I (Jack) both played in bands previously and…avecsans (58)in life • 8 years agoThe market crashed and I gave them their wedding present in BitcoinOnly 1 day after I made my first investment in cryptocurrency the market took a dive! ...oh yeah and I was on a plane heading to a wedding in Cyprus as the whole thing went down. So a couple…avecsans (58)in life • 8 years agoInvesting in cryptocurrencies - Down the rabbit hole I go!Joining the Steem community has been a real eye opener. Not only has it introduced me to a whole area of the internet I didn't know existed before, but it has introduced me to the concept of…avecsans (58)in life • 8 years agoI drove 3500 miles across America in 11 daysJust under a month ago we started the US leg of our tour.. We're a duo and the catch is... Only one of us can drive! (me... Jack) Live in LA To be honest, I didn't mind. I was really holding…avecsans (58)in music • 8 years agoHow I hacked this technology to not only be an instrument but a light show! PART 2 - UNDER THE HOODHi, my name is Jack St. James and I am one half of the electro pop band Avec Sans. Previously I wrote an introduction on how I hacked the Novation Launchpad to not only be an instrument but a light…avecsans (58)in music • 8 years agoHow I hacked this technology to not only be an instrument but a light show! PART 1 - AN INTRODUCTIONHi, my name is Jack St. James and I am one half of the band electro pop band Avec Sans. Last week we introduced ourselves and give you an exclusive lyric video to a song we wrote with…avecsans (58)in introduceyourself • 8 years agoWE ARE Avec Sans and we wrote this song with @thisisbenbrickHi we’re Avec Sans an electro pop band from London. We were invited to Steemit by @thisisbenbrick. Nice to meet you all! We recently released our debut album Heartbreak Hi. We pretty much did…