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OH&S says Rain + equipment = Bad, Mmk?

Theo doesnt mind getting wet in the garden...but....no. Wett Butt no.

Downtime pushed to next week! Only 3 eps to go for season 2.

'Sanctuary' Project now moving to final mixing, ahead of mastering? Really?

Cool. Cos Space Engineer is dropping an album out and yeah I feel the need to keep up!

Go Terry! :)

The studio album is sitll gona be a ways off. Final vocals on a few songs now underway. Also be good ot have a few lyrics.

And after trying every piano player I can meet in Sydney, I may wind up with a crack at White Fire shortly.

Aaaaand we booked some gigs aaaaand COVID lockdowns kicked back in.

Will we? Won't we? Who knows! (like the actual WHO?) Chaos! YAY!

Yo. We went dark cos it's easier on the eyes for a bit.

More fuzting to come. If I break it...yeah that'll be me 'fixing' things again.

Only 3 more eps of this season of Downtime.

Things look like they're picking up. I expect we'll be out in the real world again soon :)

Yay! Two main vocals, some harmony vocals.

Adjusted arrangements, gathered next batch of stuff together.

It's still going to take some time...and the more I look at the list of steps involved the more I realise it's more 'months' than weeks....

More main vocals, instrumentation, harmonies and guests and then to mixing.

The live Downtime album is racing towards completion. Theo is making progress. Downtime S2/e10 tomorrow. Ahhh

After feeling like we were moving pretty slowly there for a while I stopped to do a....spreadsheet. Ah yes, they are still a joy.

Turns out we are further along than I realised. There are 11 tracks in post production or active production/tracking. We're ditching the studio version of 'Smoke on horizon' in favour of the live version, so that will be on the Downtime recordings.

As Theo pointed out, we are on schedule for our usual production rate, as we are looking at two releases this year.

Before we get to the next Tracking session I need to finish 3 more songs. Fortunately there is no shortage of music, with Coggers, Fox and Mr Wizard all pumping out guide tracks.

If I get cracking i can keep up with Space Engineer! 

For batch 1, it's time for Main Vocals. There is more writing to do and I finally have found someone to help me with White Fire, which has been stuck in limbo for the last three months as I sort the chorus out.

Still not a fast process. 

Ok - next item - Youtube's bot decided one of our live songs was someone else's and I am a little GRRR about that. 

I get that the technology is not perfect, and I have a feeling I might be writing some emails about this. Welcome to 2021!

Todays's ep of Downtime