| monday
september 4th after a well recieved first headline
gig at the point we decide to get our arses in
gear and actually record something worthwhile.
after a hilarious panning of our previous demo
tape at the hands of the oh so witty nightshift
review panel something clearly needs to be done.
we are aiming a a brave new sound inspired
largely by the work of mark knopfler. all
together now " money for nothin' oooh, yer
kicks for free......" the weather being
particularly fine and tim being notable by his
absence nothing much got done. oh excpet for the
setting up of a fiercely competetive table tennis
league designed to separate the men form the boys.
no quarter was given or asked and play continued
late into the night. note : will have table
tennis table on first world tour.
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| tuesday
september 5th today things got off the ground. we
set up our garage recording suite and got down to
business, attempting to lay down "fine
feathers" a newish track that went down well
at the point last friday. our relaxed and
carefree attitudes were soon crushed under the
weight of trying to get decent takes. not being
used to playing a whole song without fucking up
at least once it became rather stressful. with
tim's energy fading fast we just about managed to
get a good drum track before packing him off home
to bed. (mental note : less table tennis for mr
grayson tomorrow). by the evening we had pretty
much nailed it so went off to philips to get
drunk.
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| wednesday
september 6th finished off 'fine feathers' this
morning, we're learning some neat recording
tricks, which go something along the line of 'if
a guitar part doesn't sound good and you can't
take it out of the mix without losing something
else aswell then drown it out with a new guitar
part.' remarkably the first mix-down of fine
feathers sounds pretty good. however, without tim
there's not a lot more we can do for now, so we've
started making some seriously wierd music with my
computer. we are getting rather good at table
tennis though.
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| thursday
september 7th things actually started getting
somewhere today, we recorded four drum tracks
with tim, and are very proud of ourselves. we can
nail this recording malarky. when were done we're
going to release some kind of mini-album tape for
everyone.
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| friday
september 8th our 'studio' is starting to look
seriously cool, a little time spent getting the
right vibe and we were set up for a productive
day's recording. me and phil spent the whole day
playing guitars and mixing stuff, or messing
about with wierd noises on the computer. it must
have been because it was raining, ie. we didn't
play any table tennis. we really need wilkes back
from penzance, or wherever, soon though, he needs
to do his guitar parts.
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| saturday 9th &
sunday 10th september Well weve not
done a great deal this weekend. Me (Phil) and
Gibbs spent time producing and generally
expressing our minds on the tapes. As per usual
we're waitng for Wilkes to get here so he can
record his stuff. If hes not carefull we will do
it ourself and do a better job at that. Beed
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