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Cello and Viola recording is going to happen in october or possibly november.
I think simultaneously we are going to begin work on wave 2 of album stuff which is to work on the 4 tiny baby lullaby songs.
wave 1 is the epic orchestra stuff. the remainder. wave 3. is going to be the last batch and probably it will begin around january.
The album is taking shape and it is an exciting shape to be in. Very epic. It will be hard to top. The electronic aspects are going to be a lot more focused this time around. trying to do more with less. The Drive Home was mostly an experiment in non stop wall of synth and hooks. I am going to try and be more delicate with the synth this time around. mostly because the orchestra parts are so crazy and over the top that synth needs to be the anchor. does any of this make sense? I am going to be doing a lot of guitar work on this album too. I would like people who have not heard us before this album to think of us as a crazy rock band with lots of weird stuff. rather than a crazy electronic band with lots of weird stuff.

I have been listening to a lot of orchestral pop music to get in the zone lately. Sigur Ros and Sufjan Stevens are so fucking good at having lots of big textured instruments and not having it come across as overwhelming or over the top.

I can't wait for people to hear this shit! I'm thinking 2/3rds will be done by Christmas. the big 2/3rds though.
The whole album is starting to come into focus in my head and I couldn't be more thrilled. The way I / We record is I have a lap top and I travel to other people and record them in random places and then bring it all back to my studio to fix it up. It's really interesting and effecting the album in many great ways because no one is trapped in a studio for too long. it's like a puzzle we are working to depuzzle. that can't be a word. nope totally isn't.

ok so here is another video. This one is not very focused. it's a clip from us in a park in London. We had just had an amazing nights sleep in a big house and we were all feeling pretty good and laughing a whole lot. The other girl in this is jenny o. if you don't know her you should. she is in our top 8 and working on an album that is going to melt your face with goodness.

The here and now

Well my fine feathered flapjack (you). We are now in album record mode. About 40% of the strings are recorded and within about 2-3 weeks that number will shoot up to near 100%. You never know how many more parts will come up later. My fear right now is that the whole album is going to be a giant orchestra and no rock. I am looking forward to doing some electric guitar and piano tracks. my style of electric guitar playing it to plug a thousand delay pedals together and then just goof around in the key of the song but that is silly and embarrassing. SO by me publicly admitting to that short cut I now have no way to fall back on it on this next album. People seem to like the song Avada Kedavra more than the rest of our songs which is a great feeling because it means people will like the direction we are going in.

I can't wait for people to hear more tracks. One song in particular has gotten a lot of "wow"s from everyone who i tested it out on. When the strings are recorded maybe I will put up a wee demo of it. I am almost too excited not too. YAY.

so last update I put a video of Saul and I having fun and Bess was left out in the cold. So here is a video of her (when we were drunk) explaining why drinking a whole lot is OK. This is also from our England tour and always makes me smile when I see this. I love the little smirk at the end. Bess is all things to all people.

**I had to take the video down because of a glitch in the hyper digital matrix. So I replaced it with a video of a baby crying. which is what I imagine every time bess opens her mouth anyways.



I don't really know why the first 3 seconds look weird but I don't care enough to re upload it.

Also I was interviewed by Uncensored Interview dot com (not up and running yet) That was fun. I think I may have cussed too much and not really answered the questions but I was pretty funny and I can't wait for everyone to see that. FEED MY HUGE EGO!!!

SPEAKING OF ME ..
also I have officially let all the black dye come out of my hair and I am back to being a red-head and It is scary. I feel so exposed. I mean It's reddish brown ... who am I kidding.