The weekend before I headed off to Bristol The Miller Test spent a weekend recording over in Willesden at the notorious Theorem studios. Ably engineered by the one and only Mark Aubrey who is an excellent engineer and is very good at getting the best performances from people. As ever it was great to get some advice from him about equipment and just to watch how he goes about his job as an engineer.
It was a fun weekend and I think we've got some really good takes - the songs were Place Your Bets, SSCB, Misleading and Devils in the Soul. We had the usual core line up along with Emma Gosnell on backing vocals and a very pregnant Catherine Earnshaw also on backing vocals.
And yes, Sam "The Kid" Taylor was as pesky as ever... but then he would be wouldn't he?
Unbelievably we managed to get two of the backing tracks down in one take for each - Place Your Bets and Misleading. This was followed by a celebratory curry and beers down the road.
Hopefully we'll be uploading some mixes to the Miller Test website soon as well as the inevitable myspace and bandcamp sites.
Stay tuned for some of Al's pics of us all looking stupid and incompetent.
It was a fun weekend and I think we've got some really good takes - the songs were Place Your Bets, SSCB, Misleading and Devils in the Soul. We had the usual core line up along with Emma Gosnell on backing vocals and a very pregnant Catherine Earnshaw also on backing vocals.
And yes, Sam "The Kid" Taylor was as pesky as ever... but then he would be wouldn't he?
Unbelievably we managed to get two of the backing tracks down in one take for each - Place Your Bets and Misleading. This was followed by a celebratory curry and beers down the road.
Hopefully we'll be uploading some mixes to the Miller Test website soon as well as the inevitable myspace and bandcamp sites.
Stay tuned for some of Al's pics of us all looking stupid and incompetent.
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