It's here! Two master copies of the 3-track studio demo we recorded at Autumn Road Studio arrived yesterday.
It sounds massive and we're all really chuffed with it. We have a couple of technologicalities and legaleroos to sort out but rest assured the tunes will up here, for free, very very soon!
Last week had us in the studio, seven years on, with Nino Errico once again at the helm at Autumn Road Studio. The Slow Down EP was pretty much a live recording - this time we were doing it "properly": separate tracks, overdubs, layers - the lot.
Discussions, voting and several lines of reasoning initially failed us but we managed to pick the three tunes to get down: Guidelines, F*ckbeast and Priest. Luckily it didn't resort to tossing a coin (or fighting). All three tunes are relatively new - some of you may have heard them at gigs this year.
Tom contemplates the distance to the garage and has brown flashbacks.
After a slow start setting and warming up Boz nailed the first drum track after lunch (and a beer). The other two came swiftly afterwards, preceding an afternoon of recording bass, guitars, lead guitar and eventually vocals and percussion.
Props to all the band for knowing the tunes well enough to be able to pull em all to pieces and record separate tracks, sections and layers... 12 guitar tracks on Priest was it? And there was no cut n' pasting for Boz so 40,000 babylon points to him for getting them down from start to finish.
Rich suggests "How I Love Thee Richmond Sausage" but Boz isn't convinced.
Thanks to Nino for his work, encouragement and feedback - the tunes will hopefully be here (and our Facebook and ReverbNation pages) very soon.
No guitar amplifiers were harmed during the production of this EP.
A compilation of photos from some recent gigs. Photography edited from originals by Rokkstar Photography, Ian Gibson and Sally Harrison.
I was wondering if any of you lot were wondering where we've wandered off too. Were you? I wonder. Anyway, with Boz firmly in the drum seat, we're currently working on getting a full set of our own songs together (only three covers!?) and practising up for some gigging...
There's a few new tunes lurking about (some of you may of heard the recent demo we recorded at Mad Dog Studios) and the order isn't finalised, but the list currently looks something like this: Madam Majiva, Banquet, This is My Place, Betty Ford, Where is My Mind?, Just Give Me, LSF, Slow Down, Lonely, Kill the Robot, Priest, F*ckbeast, Open Ground.
There's also a couple of others flying around and the possible pillaging of some of Boz's more recent back catalogue... see you soon!
As a lot of you probably know we've been practising and playing with Boz on drums. Boz used to be a key player in High Times along with our very own Rich before he joined us in 2003.
Since putting High Times on hold, Boz has worked at his own music and has amassed a fair few recordings of his ideas. We've been playing together since the tail end of 2008 and its all going well - we have a couple of new covers and some re-worked versions of our own songs. We've also been using Mad Dog Studios in Deeside to help us kick ourselves back into shape.
The Battle of the Bands gig at The Tivoli was a good laugh - we suffered with sound quality a bit (why were we the only band without a sound check?) and Neil breaking a string on the first song was bound to happen as soon as Sod realised we didn't have any spare guitars. Eh well, the tunes went down well and if it wasn't for the Babylon Crowd there would've been about 10 people there. Big thanks to all who came to support us - let's hope there's a next time!
Ish. I took the opportunity to update the website a bit. We're now running the latest version of Drupal 6, with a re-worked events calendar, events listing and galleries. I've also completely replaced the ageing theme with, well, a practically identical one built on a much better, cleaner framework called, um, Framework.
Let me know if there are any issues or if you have any suggestions to improve the site.
Last.fm is a "social music revolution", and has been evolving over several years into something so much more than most social music sites. And it pisses all over some, naming no coughmyspace names.
Check out our page on last.fm, and get listening!
Hey up! Some, most, or perhaps even all of Babylon Leaf will be turning up for tuning up and giving a blast at this Thursday's Plug and Play at the Wine Vaults in Ruthin. Its always a pleasure.
See you there?
UPDATE (14/02/2006): Happy Valentines Day! As a lurvey gift to all y'all out there, the site should be fixed up. Have a smoochy night!
UPDATE (11/02/2006): one of the text filters is broken. Some content is mysteriously vanishing into the void. You might as well ignore the site for now. Curses.
UPDATE (10/02/2006): we had to sack the last server off, so I'm afraid the site has moved again. This time around, we're waiting on images, and some links may be broken until we get our clean URLs working properly on the new server.
There's some weirdness going on in babylonleaf.com webland. I've moved the site to Leafish's spanking new server, and some things are broken, like some images, the gigs listing colours etc... holler if you notice anything else completely broken.
I promise I'll sort it out eventually.
Paul
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