Just found this video that someone made of one of our Second Life gigs and posted on YouTube:

Make sure you hit the ‘HQ’ button to see it in better quality.

The Second Life grid was kind of crashy that night and logging people out all over the place, so it’s a shame there aren’t that many in the audience - but on the other hand it’s often much easier to take SL video without too many avatars slowing everything down…

A new Pillowfish track is included on a compilation album download, the Showcase Sessions, released by Fatea - our song ‘Wider’. This version of the song is only available on this compilation, and the compilation itself is only available to download during the next three months. You can get it at http://www.fatea-showcase-sessions.co.uk/.

Looking around this site, you’ll probably notice various links inviting you to ’subscribe to RSS feed’ and ‘check our gig list from your homepage’. RSS is still a relatively new technology, and it’s been suggested that maybe only 1% of blog readers - aside from those who read a lot of technology-themed blogs - know what it is, how to use it and how incredibly useful it is. So, for those who are in that other 99%, I thought I’d post a bit of info about RSS in general, and also about the different RSS feeds you can get from the Pillowfish website.

How I use RSS

Most mornings, I sit in front of my computer, eating a bowl of muesli and checking a series of websites - news, people’s blogs, a web comic, the status of the Second Life grid, a site with a collection of overheard remarks, etc. etc.. This has been my routine for many years, but until recently I had to click on a bookmark to each individual site, and see if there was anything new to see when I got there. Sometimes there was. Sometimes there wasn’t.

These days, I only visit the websites that I know have new content on them. Rather than having recently improved my telepathy skills, I have started using RSS feeds on my iGoogle homepage, and this means that I can see a brief preview of the content - text, links and images - of loads of different sites, all on one page. It’s like having my own customised set of news headlines.
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Welcome to the brand new Pillowfish website! As well as a new look and improved navigation, we have a useful new feature: an RSS feed for our gig list so you can add it to your homepage and see any new gigs as they are added, and any changes to existing gigs as they happen.
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Our first high definition videos are now up on the HD video site Vimeo - live recordings of our songs ‘Wider’ and ‘Narcissus’.

View them on our Vimeo channel here: http://www.vimeo.com/pillowfish

During a recent Second Life / Real Life conference in London last month we played a video gig at the Blarney Stone in Virtual Dublin, which was broadcast on a big screen in the Bedford Pub in real-life London as a demonstration of the technological developments in virtual music at the conference ‘icebreaker’ event.

Live performers in London also performed as avatars in Second Life, as well as some other SL performers.

There’s a write-up in the Metaverse Messenger, on page 19 of the Oct 28th issue.

Having recently started streaming video as well as audio into Second Life, we’re branching out - using the live video website UStream we did our first video gig that was accessible via web browsers last week.

The Ustream interface includes an interactive text chat feature. We’ve embedded the whole lot - video and chat - onto a page on our website, so you can either watch it at http://www.pillowfish.co.uk/live_video_ustream.html - our ‘live’ page, or on the UStream site at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/pillowfish-live-gig.

You can see the schedule for these gigs on our online gig list, and there is also a Facebook group that you can join if you want to receive news and updates about them: http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=86224170455.

The next scheduled event is on Sunday 19th Oct at 9pm BST - hope you can make it!

We have a new photo stream on Flickr- and we’ve got it started with some pictures taken by Jeaninne Mathilde at the Whisky in the Dark single launch party - you can view them at http://www.flickr.com/photos/pillowfish/.