Recording with/for other peoples
Last week I was in at Roundhead Studios recording a mountain of keys - rhodes, harmonium, hammond, piano and synth - for a new band The Grand Design... added some bv's too. Jared played drums with me on tour and turns out he can play nearly every instrument around too. And write songs. So him and uber singer and co-songwriter Matt Rhys are said new band and got me in to pad it out. Working at Roundhead is like hanging at a clubhouse for geeks, free license to geek out amongst friends, good times engineers.
This, my set up for the day. Mass excitement.
Anyways, that new album will be mixed in a couple of weeks and it's sounding pretty mint. Will post something up when it comes to hand.
Also added some files (I mean, bv's) to Greg Flemming's new album too. The wonders of modern technology meant I could do it wherever my gear was (in Point Wells 2 weeks ago) and email, whilst sucking up the max-d nation's broadband per wav file. Still, working on my own is like a singing stab in the dark but its crazy cool and I don't mind. Comp queen! One of Greg's songs I liked in particular sounded rill Tom Petty - dark in it's storytelling and fairly gritty.