EP Diary Week 3

Well, we’re making some bloody good progress I think. I’m happy now with “Fight in a Bus Stop” it’s about ready to be mastered so I’ll leave it alone for the time being. Well chuffed with the vocals. Next I shall tackle “Disco Terror” but not today, I have a steaming headache and I’m very…

EP Diary Week 2

Still working on “Fight in a Bus Stop”. I spent the week carrying the mix round with me and listening to it on everything I could find, phones, tellys, car stereos, my Zen, my work PC, through crap headphones, good headphones… everything. This is thus far without vocals as my throat has been a bit…

Noodling and gigs

The Jamnesty gig in Portsmouth on the 30th April is definitely now on. We’re going to hire a minibus and road-trip. Get in touch if you want to join the party! In other news, I’ve been noodling about with an Atari ST and made this fairly repetitve demo. Going to turn it into something tasty…

EP Diary Week 1 part deux

Just climbed in to bed exhausted after a mammoth session on “Fight in a Bus Stop”. All the guitars are now recorded as is the bass. I’ve just thrown a very rough mix together with the synths and it’s sounding beastly. It’s a bit ‘wall of sound’ though, Phil Spector would be proud. I am…

EP Diary Week 1

Having started reworking ‘Fight in a Bus Stop’ I’ve had some ideas in my head that I might try out on it. I’d quite like to get more vocoder involved. I’m still going to keep the sung parts in, I might just put in some nicely vocoded backing vocals in. I don’t know yet. At…

Jamnesty Festival – Portsmouth 30th April

Happy Easter from the Ninjas, Had a fantastic weekend just gone with my girlfriend in Surrey. While i was there, got talking to el Presidenté of the Amnesty Society, Portsmouth. Who has invited us to play at a festival at the end of the month. Jamnesty is the name! We would like to see as…