Studio day 8 & 9 – A 20 cheese omelette!!

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Right then, im back again, possibly with a vengeance but I haven’t decided on that yet, to ‘fill you in’ on some more top-notch studio occurrences.

Before we get started though, just because it’s Easter (and Dan made me), here is a lovely piece of creative literature to raise the spirits, particularly those of the dead.

There were 4 gents from the ‘Burgh
Who went to South Wales for a spell
Unlike the Wise Men there was no Myrrh
Their desire for Easter they could not quell
Eggs! Eggs! All round they yelped
No! Not the ones found on the ground
The chocolate kind brings joy to all
But sadly, not if they collide with a wall
The Bunny will bring them!! All 4 cry
But only if you fight him for the chocolately goodness found inside
The legend is misplaced then?
Oh quite, the Bunny is a damn hoodlum!!

Yesterday (Day was pretty straightforward really, finished tracking all the guitars with the exception of an intro/outro for 1 song and Ali managed to wail his way through another tune with his Meat Loaf-esque vocal sound waves.

I finished yet another book during another ‘off the chain’ day which was just plain super, I believe there might even be a photo of me ‘in action’ during the completion of said book – it was a good book in case you were wondering.

When we got back to my folks’ house Tom Barnes, the guy with serious length, im sure you’ll remember, had sent over the rough images from our ‘shoot’ (im not gay) the other day – they were looking pretty awesome, although I kept my end of the deal regarding my resemblance to Skeletor whilst adding another element by looking like Skeletor after a late night (im that creative).

Today (Day 9) we left my folks’ house for the last time, avec Easter eggs from them; I got one from my Nan as well cause im incredibly awesome. Once we got to the studio, eggs and all, we kicked off with the aforementioned intro/outro to finally complete all of the guitar tracking, and im now sitting in the control room writing this whilst Ali gets his bonBonbonbon Jovi on all over his second track of the day – just one to go after this and we’ll be packing down, loading up and shitting off back to Edinburgh – yeah, that’s right, we go back tonight cause we’re just plain crazy.

Dave’s out in the corridor, where he belongs, sorting a couple of piano parts for the last song we’re tracking today as well – should be tidy.

Just need to say that our ‘special guest’ is an absolute delight to have in the studio, he’s really picked the pace up and I know for a fact that Romesh is learning by the second from this particular guest’s endless ‘fountain of knowledge’ – he’s a bloody star!!! – this may possibly be explained later on in the blog, but it could also just end up being incredibly confusing really.

That’s all really, the guys are looking forward to getting the ‘finished article’ back once its been mixed and such and that will be us for this particular record, on to artwork, touring, press etc next.

bonBONbonbon

Mykee

P.S. im definitely back with a vengeance. That is my decision.

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