Tame the Moon

I've never been especially big on cards, and firmly believe chocolates and flowers shouldn't be reserved as gifts for a particular day of the year. Jaded romantic that I am, I do make a point of wishing my wife a happy Valentine's on the morning of the day concerned, and one of us will aim to cook the other something nice for supper.

This year, the day concerned falling on a Saturday, so instead I had a gig.

The soundtrack to the above video is a song I wrote some years ago. I think we recorded it for the band's second album, so the vintage would be distinctly pre-millennium. 

With the advent and accessibility of home-recording in recent years, it was one of the songs I re-recorded for myself, free from the meddling influence of the other musicians in my band. I love playing with the band, but it's nice having full, creative control (for better, or I guess, more often worse) of all the instruments and aspects of a song's production and recording.

At some point last week, this song came up on rotation on the morning alarm that gets me grudgingly out of bed each day, and in my sleep-fogged state of mind, I irrationally thought "I wonder if I can find some clever AI on the Internet to create a video for this song? I think it should involve a couple of mice!"

Then I climbed blearily out of bed, brushed my teeth, showered, and once dressed to meet the day, went looking. This was the result. 

The song is called Tame the Moon, penned and recorded by yours truly, the video is by some monster AI entity (freebeat.ai) that, I suspect, will one day devour the world. It is, of course, dedicated to my wife, Nikki.

Oh, and as for Valentine's? I invited Nik to the gig, but she gracefully declined and said she's rather enjoy a night in. I got home early hours Sunday morning to find her asleep on the sofa "waiting up for me" and a still warm lasagne waiting for me in the oven.

If that's not romance, I don't know what is.