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Muu-umm...Stormcellar's setup a drum kit in the kitchen again and there's a guitarist in my bedroom.

There's a drumkit in the kitchen? What could it be? Yes, you guessed correctly, we're recording again (give yourself a point).

Here's Theo, I caught one THIIIIIIS BIIIIG! Theo earned a new nickname today, he shall from this day henceforth be known as The Last Word. No further explanation shall be provided. Amen.

Continuing our love of exotic locations, we visited amazingly exotic...interesting...deepest..... darkest.......err.....umm.......Stanmore

Right!. We're officially the first band to record at the brand new House Of Hits (mark 2) studio where the amazing John Mc used us for fiendish experiments, finding out how to tweak his new environment and we were willing test subjects.

John is a Dude of Sound (blessed be he that abideth as the Dude, for he shall receive no gutterballs).

For todays studio test much work was done to get the environment ready and see how well the studio handled exterior noise and to make sure all the bits and pieces were working.

Rosie, Mr Wizard and Redline were already in business when I got there today, they had already been at it for a while, getting tones and running cables. I arrived whilst they were jamming to test the monitor headphones.

I think I've gone a bit Birdy Num Nums.

Hurrah, all was well! No tape slough, no unexpected glitchs, everything functioning smoothly.

From there it was onto laying down the guitar, slide, bass and drum with a guide vocal.

John removed the guide in order to review the instrument channel recordings.

By Midday, things were swimming along nicely and we had the pleasure of Ms Jo F's company to sing with us today, accompanied by 'Card' Fitzgerald (go you good thing! gold for Australia! Gold for Cumnock!).

Borrowing from our recent experiences with The Sydney Harmony, we tried some harmony arrangements at the end, and yes folks, it's still hard back to class!.

By the end of the day however, harp, slide, harmonies, you name it, done and dusted.

Now it's up to John to do his mix and then this sucker is being released into the wild. Fly!! Be Freeeeeeee!

The song should be available in the next few days. Famous last words but what the heck.

Could this be the start of our next approach? a series of singles? There is quite some discussion about it. Stay tuned!

As our mate Happy says at the Bald Rock, 'Happy Days, Happy Days'

Getting ready to record a single this Saturday

Howdy Folks!

We're going to record a brand new song tomorrow for the sheer heck of it. Our good mate John Mc has recently moved his studio and needs some guinea pigs to test out his new setup, which includes this fabulous vintage 2 inch tape Unit :-) if you are a long term reader of this site, you might remember when I first came across this device several years ago, I was all Analogue Fanboy about it...(sigh)

We're the willing volunteers for this experiment and we're all greatly looking forward to the session.

Ms Jo is coming down to add some vocals and we're going to try and hustle this song out the door as swiftly as is practical.

Tonight we got together with Redline to refine the arrangement. here's Redline, Mr Wizard and Rosie sitting around the kitchen getting 'Sweet Adeline' together (working title).

I am using this new iPad/Garageband/USB mic for all our guide track recordings and I am pretty impressed with this little thing.

Tomorrow we get to try it for real on some serious analogue gear.

Stay tuned for some pics and vids from the production this weekend.

MJEB

Getting us together to record a single is like herding Schrodingers Cats

Whilst our website was offline, we arranged the first window of opportunity to record a new song. Ok, make that we converted it from a Quantum Super Positional state to an actual 'oh, I guess we should start at 9:30' state.

Yes, the cat's out of the box. Will it work? Will our plans turn into a jumbled pile of physics notations? Will our cobbled together contraptions yield the required equations?

This Saturday we'll be charging the Flux Capacitors! Stay tuned for some blog updates as this suddenly coalescing sequence of random events mutates towards an audible outcome! And remember, if anyones going to make sense of this, it's your friends in the 'cellar!

Read all about it here first! Mystery! Excitement! Multi-tracking! Cats!

Website offline for the last 8 hours after our webhost exploded

ARGH! Technical Gremlins are living in my sock drawer and attacking all my IT!

After battling my editing system to get the latest videoclip out, lo and behold our webhost blows up for a day.

Poor form from our hosting provider, but I wont name'em yet as I think they are in for some customer spankings, if all the messages I have been reading on their support forums are right..

Just goes to show how dependent on tech we've become huh?

ARGH!!!!! We're back now, otherwise you wouldn't be reading this.

It's not easy being green - St Pats Day Report

Top o' the morning to you, Dear Reader.

We drove up through a lovely clear skied autumn day for a gig at the Kent last night. As predicted, the St Patricks Day revelers were out in force, green shirts, green hats, green ties, you name it.

I had a few moments of bother getting acquainted with the mixing desk last night, but that's to be expected. Still digging the Mix Wizard but I forgot to select groupings for the aux sends or something like that. Anyway, that made me a tad frantic before we started up. Breathe in, breathe out. I am working on reducing my scotch-farmer-with-a-broken-tractor approach to dealing with technology, which occasionally involves some rather choice expletives about plugs,nobs, and last week, my entire computer. I am aiming to become someone who solves problems with a calm, clear, rational mind, as opposed to Fawlty Towers -esque shaking my fist at the heavens whilst jumping up and down and yelling 'oh thank you so bloody much'

My inability to find the correct button does not actually represent a conspiracy by all electric things to irritate me. Or does it? In fact, my modem is eyeing me very suspiciously right now...

Ah yes, after a quick jaunt into techno paranoia, shout outs to Louise, Ian, Steve and our visitors who last saw us at The Albert in Tamworth. We had a very enthusiastic crowd of dancers last night. I was checking through my pics and found one videoclip that kind of summed it up. I started filming this just before the break down in Parchment farm.

Another good night at the Kent, cheers to Double Bill for all his help and we look forward to being back at the Kent soon.

Stormcellar: Texas Rosie

And yea verily did he trudge through a field in Agnes Banks, and Lo his socks did filleth with water, and yea did he squelch.

And did Rosie and Mr Wizard say 'Dude, wtf are you doing' and did MJEB reply "Stand Still' and also 'Start playing something @%&#*'

And did MJEB swear, for his was the slow rendering machine and the many reboots, and did ASUS grant him an improvement when he swapped chipsets, for he that has a wonky processor shall not stray from the path of 32 bits, and let him with a H264 codec transcode before he edits, so sayeth the PC.

A-choo.

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