We’re delighted to be able to tell you that the new album is mixed & we’re really pleased with the results. David M. Allen has done a fabulous job helping our vast mess of music & ideas & noises settle pleasingly & coherently into the songs we’d recorded. Mixing can be a pain, but the [...]
Glad to report that the squoinky organ mania recorded at Joe’s house & the bass lines recorded at mine were usable. Rat & I got plenty of editing done yesterday in the Scabies Attic, with some occasional assistance from Wilfred Millar. Neville Staple’s singing & ad-libs have worked with a special magic that couldn’t possibly [...]
It is now nearly all recorded. Yesterday we drove to Coventry with engineer James & the ‘Orchard Studios Mobile Facility’ & recorded some fabulous vocals by Neville Staple, extraordinary frontman-toaster-singer with The Specials which will feature on one track. We’re very excited because we have never recorded a proper collaboration before & Neville’s contribution is [...]
We have recorded all the drums & bass for 12 songs & almost all the piano & organ parts. Some guitar has gone down too. It’s looking like we might make it 11 songs rather than 12. We don’t want it too long, & any decent album should easily fit onto one side of a [...]