Probably because there was no one competent available I was asked to record the Ominous Folk of Hopeless Maine performance at Rising Steam 2023. So I did…

The first song is about demonic devices, which is to say it is a song form the perspective of a demon forced to power a device. Possibly a steam roller, may be a kettle, or possibly a really over engineers rotary washing line. Please remember not to try this kind of thing at home unless you have a 5th level summoning circle and an emergency banishing spell to hand…

Next we have a song about sea monsters, that is perfectly rehearsed and the mistake at the beginning is pure theatre…

And finally ( though I have a couple more recordings that I’ll try to get done at some point ) Shapeshifters, which is hauntingly beautiful and deserves a better recording than I managed

So if that doesn’t encourage them to get into a recording studio and record things properly I don’t know what will.

The Ominous Folk of Hopeless Maine are a musical off shoot of the Hopeless Maine graphic novels drawn by Tom Brown and written Nimue Brown which if you have encountered you really should seek them out. Start HERE at the Hopeless Maine website. I may have mentioned them before…