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‘What’s Wrong With Broken Glass’ 12″ EP
Buy now - proceeds to Oxfam
iTunes | Spotify | More...“worth buying a turntable just to hear this.”
The Fly
“intriguing melodies… highly alluring.”
Q Magazine.com
“Stream of conscious lyrics.. like a late night busker serenading the drunks… Get it for the indie kid in your life.”
Clash Music
“a strange, yet fantastic collaboration”
The 405
Myspace blogs- Resume 2 October, 2010Hey.Been a little while... summer involved a lot of busyness and general running-about. Apart from anything else there was a lot more work to do on the Ann The Arc record than I knew. Good news is, th... […]
- Voting: Intentions 5 May, 2010"A fair society starts with a fair election"- Billy BraggSo tomorrow we will go and cast our votes to try and pick a government. The Election has come at last. Except there's not one single election w... […]
- TOUR! 26 March, 2010..so we're sorting out a tour at the moment, will be a full band arrangement and a load of fun! plan is to start and end in the UK but do a bit in france and germany as well (and possibly a cheeky tri... […]
- PLEASE read this REALLY IMPORTANT post.... 6 February, 2010Hi (got to write this quick, dodgy connection. sorry for mistakes) i really, really, really care about this stuff on all sorts of levels. please read on if you've got five minutes. i've tr... […]
- New stuff, 'Shanty' single and... live record - 11th Feb! 2 February, 2010Hey peeps,how's it all going? big men of 2010? rode from hythe to islington to see Thomas Tantrum, the moules and montage populaire last weekend, brought back some memories of the summer, seems like a... […]
- new year la alalaa 7 January, 2010hey peepsso - a bit quiet for a while because all that goddamn snow just before christmas killed my laptop. cycling through a mad blizzard in northeast london with the moulettes' manager to get to the... […]
- A different FREE song EVERY DAY til XMAS!! 1 December, 2009Over every day in December up to Christmas Day I'm giving away a different song for free each day! I'm a bit excited about this.. I haven't figured out the whole tracklist, some of them aren't even fi... […]
- some wee gigs where i demo stuff 6 November, 2009yo peeps, doing a bit of writing at the moment, but got a few low-key gigs coming up where i'll be trying out the new stuff etc... most of these are FREE shows, so do come, would be ace to see w... […]
- Cooking Time 27 October, 2009=Gourmet Noodles For Beginners=SO in my pursuit of musical glory through not having a proper job (and it's working - voted 5th best original indie band from Hampshire by readers of the Basingstoke Pos... […]
- What I did next 9 October, 2009Hi peoples.I'm writing this with my battered laptop on my lap (and the ever present cup of strong, shitty, HOT instant coffee) in yet another front room belonging to someone else. I sat down the other... […]
- Resume 2 October, 2010
Tag Archives: recording
A bit down; recording in my pants (Evan Dando)
Recorded in my pants this morning into garageband. No interface – straight in. Sorry for quietness. … First heard this song on the B-side to ‘Outdoor Type’, recorded live for a radio station in Milan. It’s a really underrated Dando … Continue reading
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Tagged evan dando, garageband, live, losing your mind, recording
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St John’s Wood
So.. in the last couple of weeks we have been recording vocals for the LP at a (fairly) secret (but let’s face it, well-known) location in north-west London. We’ve been dubbing onto the great instrumental tracks recorded at Furnace Studios in … Continue reading
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Tagged abbey road, debut LP, lonely joe parker, music, news, recording
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Recording.. aftermath
So… 1 producer, 2 engineers, 3 countries, 4 animals/toddlers, 5 musicians plus a Katy and a Rysia, 12 days, 15 tracks, 32 transfers and countless bottles of Shumenska (cheap Bulgarian Beer) later, we’ve finally finished tracking what will end up … Continue reading
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Tagged abbey road, album, bulgaria, dave wade-brown, david miatt, debut, furnace, furnace studios, james ewers, jimmy hatherley, LP, michael anderson, recording, valley studios
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Album demos progress
Hey So, the album demos are rolling along. Recording in March is looking like more and more fun. This weekend we cooked up a load more demos with Dave (Miatt & Wade Brown, Thomas Tantrum) and Campbell Austin (Moneytree) – … Continue reading
I want to stay in touch with you all… just not on Facebook.
I am leaving facebook for a while*. It is boring but compulsive, and that is a bad combination of things. Here’s what I’m doing instead. You can comment below thru FB / Twitter / Disqus For more updates subscribe via … Continue reading
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Tagged arrangement, bulgaria, dan parry, dave wade-brown, david miatt, demo, disqus, ed hicks, facebook, furnace studios, lonely joe parker, michael anderson, music, news, pj harvey, pre-production, producer, recording, remix, rude_NHS, soundcloud, twitter
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Recording report
ello just a quick note to say what’s going on at the moment… recording-wise, i’m meant to be finishing leila, brooklyn and shanty to go on this split EP for Oxjam with Dave Miatt. unfortunately we’re doing it all on … Continue reading
New live recording
There’s a new version (live) of shanty up … featuring hannah miller and ollie austin, it starts a bit ropey due to a cold/curry/cobra combo but ends ace: http://www.myspace.com/betsyandhavana .. it’s the sort of thing we’re up to at the … Continue reading
About swanky instruments and sound musicians
Records in the works? I’m still working with Dave Miatt on our Oxjam charidee EP. The trouble about doing everything for free is that sometimes it’s hard to pull everything together. We’ve had about 8 different sessions with several people … Continue reading
