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Happy New Year Writing writing writing and recording. It's all going ok, except I'm doing my normal thing of trying to work beyond my means. They're just demos, but I can't get all the crazy ethereal sounds I want. Which may well be a good thing as otherwise I'd be endlessly tinkering like a madman. oh well The headcount is ok - three songs finished, two more almost done, two more then needing to be written - or at least I've started writing them but not yet finished. Should hopefully head back into the studio in a few weeks' time. If all goes to plan anyway. pre-beer About to head out into the cold for a couple of drinks. Been writing and doing a bit of recording, mostly thinking about arrangements at the moment. It's weird, everything seems to be influencing me at the moment, so going from feeling like I couldn't think of any decent way to record these demos, I now have almost too many options. Christmas can bring out the demons in us and turn this time of year into a frantic, frenetic squeeze, push past each other, all this stuff I have to get done. It's nice to be able to have a moment to reflect which is what I'm hoping for tonight. It's strange, this year is pretty much the first where I've wanted to reflect on what's happened in the last twelve months. It's been a strange one. Hope you all have a peaceful Christmas and a great start to 2008. last rehearsal till 2008 So I'm sorting out my ipod with some groove stuff and some other bits and pieces on various cds. I've been going through boxes and various parts of stuff that has just been left to fester in the dark corners of my room. Dramatic, me? But yeah, some things I didn't expect to come across, like this: these items of discovery on a scrap of paper stuck to another. i'm really starting to notice themes in the stuff I write, especially with the new stuff. bassist never turned up which was a shame, needless to say. So it was just myself and Dan running through the usual four plus Full Circle, which needs to take shape. State of Grace is sorted, it would seem, as may well by Here is Now but drums may change that I don't know. Over Christmas I need to get my head down and record more demos at some point. Currently have six on the waiting list - no, actually five, as I've recorded one already. I keep flip flopping at the moment about arrangements but what I'm responding to at the moment is simplicity. perspective It's ten past ten as I'm writing this. So what do I put? Music is going ok - feels like at the moment we're all building up to something. Four songs - maybe - figured out and then various bits and pieces at various stages of development. No idea what's going to happen at Christmas but hopefully the aim is - no hopefully about it actually - to get more stuff recorded so that should leave us over ten giggable songs. which is good. i need to get out there and play
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