Posted by 1manbanned on Sat Mar 31 '07 at 08:55AM

31 March - at last managed to uploaded 'I'm Just an Old Man ' - well a shorted version of it anyway. The full track can be hears on my website www.1manbanned.freeuk.com or ay Indire stire - clcik on one of the links on this site

Posted by 1manbanned on Mon Mar 12 '07 at 04:26PM

I am getting more than a little pissed off with this site. I am having terrible problems uploading tracks these days. I dont know if this site is being serviced by the owners anymore, But I have failed to upload ANY track at all for months. I go though the upload process but it takes ages and then the music is juts not there!!! I have even tried cutting down the uploads up just uploading part of ther track but eben thats doesnt work. Anyone have any tips? I have tried to upload my latest song 'I'mJust and Old Man' but have gibven up after 6 attemps.

If anyone wnats to hear it you can check it out at

Posted by 1manbanned on Wed Dec 6 '06 at 07:28PM

7th Dec. Uploaded a new Track ' Water Under the Bridge'. This track is probably my most ambitious multi-track recording to date. It features 2 guitar tracks, 1 bass track ,2 drum backing tracks, 2 keyboard tracks, 2 vocal tracks plus a separate 'drum solo' in the middle which I recorded using Roland EM 15 keyboard hitting the keys with my fingers like drumsticks then processing the sound to add a phasing effect.

I'm starting to get the hang of the process now. Much of the arrangement of this song came about during the recording process, by adding increasing layers to add more colour and variation. The 'drum solo' was the last thing I added. To be honest I finished the rest of the track leaving the middle solo to be completed. I tried out various guitar and keyboard solo parts , but nothing special emerged. I was trawling through al the sounds on the Roland keyboard, when I (pardon the pun) hit upon the percussion sound bank. Each of the keys gives a different percussion sound from whistles and cymbals to kits drums. I decided simply to hit the keys with my fingers as if I was playing a real kit with sticks. The problem I met was that I couldnt use two fingers (as drum sticks) on a single key because my the keys were too small for two fingers at the same time. So the rolls around the 'kit' were achived by playing adjacent keys so the right finger and left finger play slightly different sounds. But have a listen and see if you would have guessed . The phasing effect to the solo added that extra little something . Hope you like this one.

Posted by 1manbanned on Wed Dec 6 '06 at 06:51PM

Wc 6 December.
I drive My wown Car reached No 1 in in Sheffield and No 14 in Global Top 20, Never Did Finmd my Dream reached No 2 in Sheffield and 16 in Global Top 20

Posted by Dannyboy on Tue Nov 14 '06 at 11:53AM

Wc 13th Nov . Never did find my dream hit 3rd kin Sheffield Top 20 and 13th in Global./ I drive My owen car was 4th In Sheffield and 14th Global

Posted by 1manbanned on Tue Nov 7 '06 at 01:17PM

I see that the first two Tracks I have uploaded under the 1ManBanned name - 'Never Did find my Dream and 'I drive my own car" have this week hit the Sheffield Top 20 in 14th and 16th places respectively.

These and my other tracks can be heard on line and downloaded from

Posted by 1manbanned on Wed Nov 1 '06 at 07:52PM