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Daniel & The Lion - This Is Me, Is That You? EP

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 19:58:24 +0100

Daniel & The Lion - This Is Me, Is That You? EP: I know I’ve posted this before, but I feel...

Review: Everything Everything - Man Alive

Sun, 29 Aug 2010 15:16:18 +0100

Review: Everything Everything - Man Alive: A review of Everything Everything’s debut album...

Divinity - The Singularity

Sun, 29 Aug 2010 14:50:10 +0100

Calgary metallers Divinity sure know how to write a good prog-metal album. Want some proof? Take a...

Enuff Z'nuff - Dissonance

Sun, 29 Aug 2010 14:47:48 +0100

Reunions are a catchy illness these days. Go on, walk into HMV, take a look at the charts and...

Imperial Vengeance - 6th Airbourne Division

Sun, 29 Aug 2010 14:43:42 +0100

Metal might well be a bloated genre, but every now and then there’s an artist or a band that...

A good desk is insanely important to me, this is my new one.

Mon, 23 Aug 2010 23:42:41 +0100

A good desk is insanely important to me, this is my new one.

If you’re an iPhone owner, then I feel I ought to ask you...

Wed, 11 Aug 2010 22:39:37 +0100

If you’re an iPhone owner, then I feel I ought to ask you to download the ATTN:Magazine app for me. I run ATTN: with a few friends and it’d mean a lot if you could download the app and let me know what you think. The image above will take you straight to the app store.

I’ve already posted about recording The Red Orchestra...

Wed, 11 Aug 2010 21:52:38 +0100

I’ve already posted about recording The Red Orchestra before, but the Goldspink EP is finally up to stream! It was a co-production between the lovely Miss Lizzy Maries & myself and I couldn’t be happier with how it’s turned out.

Goldspink is the result of two days tracking (about 21 hours in total), another eight hours mixing, and a final four hours mastering. I had two mics, a lot of broken instruments, a four-bed flat-cum-studio, a lot of pizza, a lot of coffee, a handful of talented musicians (and me, I play trumpet on a couple of the tracks), and this is the end result.

Please, please, please tell me what you think. It was very much a makeshift affair in terms of production, but I’m still good for comments and criticism.

Edwyn Collins - Losing Sleep // First Listen (For The Fly)

Wed, 21 Jul 2010 23:41:41 +0100

Edwyn Collins ‘Losing Sleep’ (Heavenly) ‘Losing Sleep’ sees Edwyn Collins...

The Twilight Moan (A blog for The Fly)

Fri, 16 Jul 2010 20:01:45 +0100

I’m sorry I have to do this, but I need to make a point, and sometimes making a point involves...

Tricky - Mixed Race // First Listen (For The Fly)

Fri, 16 Jul 2010 19:58:35 +0100

Tricky ‘Mixed Race’ (Domino) Tricky’s done it again. Two years after...

Good times. This is from recording The Red Orchestra. I had a...

Fri, 11 Jun 2010 21:39:04 +0100

Good times. This is from recording The Red Orchestra. I had a lot of fun and worked with some awesome people.

FYI, I didn’t keep both mics close-miking that one speaker. I used the SM58 as my close mic and the B-1 as an ambient mic about a foot back aimed straight at the centre of the cone.

Daniel & The Lion - This Is Me, Is That You? EP

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 15:48:44 +0100

Daniel & The Lion - This Is Me, Is That You? EP: For those of you who are interested, here’s a...

Independence Day

Tue, 01 Jun 2010 22:31:42 +0100

Independence Day: A 1000-word-ish feature I wrote on the issues faced by independent record stores,...

Four Year Strong - Enemy Of The World

Tue, 11 May 2010 22:42:10 +0100

There’s a certain degree of irony in the title of the opening track to Four Year...

Four Year Strong - Wasting Time (Eternal Summer)

Wed, 05 May 2010 13:21:33 +0100

Wasting Time (Eternal Summer) is the second single to be cherry-picked from Four Year Strong’s...

Blitz Kids - Scavengers

Wed, 05 May 2010 13:19:25 +0100

On first listen, you’d be forgiven for thinking that you might of heard Blitz Kids before....

Chimp Spanner - At The Dream's Edge

Wed, 05 May 2010 13:15:39 +0100

If you lend your ears to just the first three and a half minutes of Chimp Spanner AKA Paul Antonio...

Your Northants general election guide

Fri, 23 Apr 2010 17:30:00 +0100

Your Northants general election guide: This one took a while….it’s essentially a listing...

Trauma tales of desparate dashes home

Fri, 23 Apr 2010 17:28:00 +0100

Trauma tales of desparate dashes home: The obligatory ‘oh no, the ash caused lots of people to...