we had our first rehearsal with the viridian quartet last night, and after a rather sizable fuck up at the beginning we got into the swing of it…
these are just the quick run throughs of the tracks, but it was great to hear what things sounded like on a real instruments after programming in midi [...]
WHAT THE F*CK ARE SEMI QUAVERS?
HOW WAS YOUR WEEKEND?
we spent ours locked up in the studio streaming our recording of our acoustic ep then gigged on sunday night at the captains rest. after a lot of headphone action on the sunday i have to say bed and a sneaky jack daniels would have been my ideal situation, but we really enjoyed the ‘quickie’ [...]
BATTERY OPERATED
this weekend we’re holing up in the studio to record an acoustic ep. well almost an acoustic ep, we’re also dragging in some ‘battery operated’ instruments into the mix and hopefully coming out with something that sounds good enough to plug in (see what i did there?).
what we’re doing a little different from usual time [...]
INTRODUCING THE VIRIDIAN QUARTET
we’re teaming up with the uber great viridian quartet who are a contemporary string quartet based in glasgow (although i think they’ll be in london soon) to play cryptic nights in june
you can check them out here or below.
since andy and i’s knowledge of strings and even reading music is slightly limited (to say [...]
MAKE SPARKS EP LAUNCH
dundee, may 2nd, £5
