| STUDIO
When I signed my first publishing deal with Peer Music, Stuart Ongley the boss at the time, gave me £5,000 to put an 8track together. I got a Fostex R8 a Studio Master 16 channel desk, a Quadraverb, an amp, speakers, everything. But the most important purchase I made, was an unassuming little box called a Micro Limiter. Harmless you might think, think again. Once you become addicted to it's crude and extreme compression, it is all over. After spending a good few years working on the same equipment in the same room, a sound started to develop. What it is, I don't know, but it has proved impossible to reproduce anywhere else, so we might as well just get on with it. We have recorded many songs here, some which featured on the 'LATE DEVELOPER' album, originally released on Org Records and virtually everything we have recorded since. Some of these songs were compiled on a mini album 'BIG STICK' and the 'DIY' EP, which we've been selling at gigs and mail order. Now we are moving with technology and have started integrating the computer, which will hopefully enable us to realise some bigger arrangements we've not been able to do so far. |
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SONGS
At first I thought I was a singer and some one else wrote songs. I tried to do it but I just coundn't, so it was some time later that I realised my dream and knuckled down to write. After many attempts and collaborations, I got a result and started to amass a good selection of not too embarrassing tunes. But it wasn't really till I met John Morrison that it all fell into place. I enjoy writing on my own, but there is something quite magical about a song writing partnership that works. From the moment Mark Bandola introduced us the chemistry was there. Usually John sits in 'his place' on the sofa playing his bass or guitar. He has probably put together a series of chords or bass lines and while I am pottering about perhaps working on the web site or overdubbing another tune, one of them will catch my ear. In that event a melody and perhaps a lyric that I had been kicking about will connect and away we go. It is seldom we get together that this doesn't happen. That's the easy part, then comes the graft. From there we etch an arrangement from the original elements, playing sections over till the pieces merge. Hopefully the lyrics simultaneously come together but some times It's just a case of hammering ideas out while John obligingly plays a given part repeatedly till there's a result. We have to put the songs down quickly cos there's always another on the way. The buzz of writing is addictive, nothing makes me feel better. Sad isn't it. |
| Mean while we are uploading some of our recordings to date and you can download these songs free. How ever you can also compile your own CDR's and we will make and send them to you, minimum 5 songs £1per song | ||