Friday 20 February 2009

Studio Day 1

After an awakening shower and hearty meat filled barm, Me and Alex headed off to Tetbury for the first day of tracking for our debut EP "Rain City".
Armed with a bottle of Lilt, a hardcore playist and a bag of ASDA's own "Rosey Apples" we made two and a half hour journey down to the Gloucestershire countryside:



We got to Tetbury around 10:30 and had made enough time to call of at Tesco for the days supplies; Grapes, Donuts and Frubes are the order of the day. On to the studio we went! We arrive, say hello, make our introductions and duck as Jonnys dog Robbie grabs about 15ft of air off a ledge with a primary landing target of Heffs face. We load in, set up and it's time to go.

We spend the first hour or so trying to get a good sound from Alex's floor tom, we give up and resort to using a floor tom that has been sat covered in dust in the corner of the studio for months as it ounded better than the one we had brought with us... not the best start to the day. All problems set aside we got to work, under the watchful eye of Captain Underpants, creating the click tracks that would be the mortar that holds our creative bricks together. Click tracks done, it's time to track!Heffs first attempt at playing to a click went... well, it could have been better. But he soon got the hang of it and we flew through "Bones". One track down, four to go. Unfortunatley we don't have any pictures of Alex tracking, but we do have plenty of me laying down a guide guitar track so you'll have to make do with that for now:

Alex flys through his beats for "Rain City" and Walk Away" before taking some time out to eat an apple. After a rough start to the day things had really picked up and we we're well ahead of schedule.

Last job of the day would be to track "Words That Fall Unbroken", a few difficulties with the final section are soon overcome and our days work is done!
With a stop off at Tescos (again) for some much needed sustainance, we head back to Jonnys gaff in Bristol for evening of Bottom, futurama and Family Guy. It's cool to catch up with my long time friend Tom (Jonnys brother) and have a beer or two and a catch up on old times.

Off to bed we go, "Dreamer" tomorrow for Alex, then it's time to track some guitar.
We'll be back soon, keep checking in.
Phil
AWH



Thursday 19 February 2009

schmiggles!

We’re heading to the rehearsal rooms tonight to add the finishing touches for our debut EP, “Rain City”

I imagine that we’ll get there late(ish) go to the chippy, get some canned sugary goodness from Jonny Dick-fingers (he’s the dude who works in the shop next to the chippy, the dude has the longest fingers I’ve ever seen!) get some cash, get back, eat, play some songs, chat shite, quote lines from movies, play some songs, Cal will break some equipment, we’ll fix Cal’s mess, play some more songs, complain that we’re tied (well, I will cos I’m lazy) then we’ll have to load the equipment into our new rent-a-van because Phil and I will be hitting the Studio tomorrow with Mr Jonny Renshaw (Devil Sold His Soul) I’m extremely excited! We’ll be tracking the guitars and the drums first. We’re setting off at stupid’ o’clock Friday morning and we’ll be there until Monday evening.

Thanks to all the people who have been supporting the band even though we’re only just starting out, we’re sorry to keep you all waiting with the EP but It’ll be totally worth it once it drops. Trrruuusst!

We’ve finally been added to a show! we’ll playing at Satan’s Hollow in Manchester (where Phil drunkenly moshes to Slipknot then falls on his arse, only to keep moshing when people are trying to help him up) It’ll be on Thursday May 21st, I’ve heard that More Than Life and Hammers will be playing. This show will RULE! I’ve also heard that it’s in the new room (I’m not sure where it’s located), not on the dance floor, so that will certainly be interesting. As this will probably be our first show, we’ll have some surprises in store for y’all.

We’ll be armed with a laptop during our trip down to Tetbury so we’ll be posting some photos and keeping this blog updated. I decided to make us a blogger account so that we can keep you all updated and also so that Ric can get some sweet sweet emo-poon.

Also, Nate and I DJ in Jilly’s Rockworld, Oxford Road, Manchester every Saturday night from 10pm-3am, you’ll be able to find us in the ‘Fishbowl’ room playing the finest Pop-Punk, Skate Punk, Ska, Hardcore, Emo, some Pop, some Hip-Hop, basically just great music to dance to. As I’ll be away this Sat, Nate will be going solo, so make sure that you go along and invade his dance floor. Saturday 28th February, we’ll be DJ’ing after the Rollo Tomassi / Fucked Up / Bronx show, so head along to Jilly’s after the show. Shameless self-promotion

Cha’mone
Alex

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Wednesday 18 February 2009

Studio Updates

Okay, so it's less than a week until we head into the studio to start tracking our debut EP "Rain City". We've been hard at work writing and finalising all the songs and we're now really happy with the EP tracklisting and can't wait to put it to tape. Keep checking out this blog because from Friday (20th Feb) onwards, we will be updating it daily with studio updates, photos and more.

Speak to you soon.

Phil - AWH

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