No sleep till Wolverhampton.
We left last weeks blog with our show in Birmingham at the Actress and Bishop (War of the Wilds)
This was quite a late night due to us being further up the bill and we also stuck around to see the heading band, Sour Bitch.
I was back into work the following day and then Saturday was spent going over the songs before we headed into the studio for a full week of Recording starting from the Sunday.
I was really looking forward to spending time in the studio and with the band.
One, because it’s really a rare occurrence to have the opportunity to hang with the band for a week.. and Two, I really do enjoy spending time watching the song evolve and working on it with love, care and attention.
Sure we have played them Live a whole bunch and I feel they kick ass, but it's in the studio where the song will be cemented in time, and we want and know they will sound great.
So Sunday morning came and we are due in Robannas Recording Studio for 10am till 8pm for the next five days.
I would totally take this over a weeks work any day of the week.
I picked Spice up from Stoke on the Sunday morning and we headed back to the house before then setting off in Grace’s car.
We continued on to pick up Jake and then headed to Birmingham. It was Sunday so the traffic was also really quiet.
We parked the car and made our way down to the studio. I think we were also 10 minutes early.
A quick chat with Rob and a round of teas and it was time to start work.
We have worked with our producer Miguel Seco several times now and we couldn’t think of anyone better than to work with on our Début Ep. He’s worked with some great artists over the years and it would not be fair for us to name drop... but we like his focus and attention to detail, as well as his humour.
Grace had some backing tracks for Spice to drum too with the tracks at the correct BPM that we wanted to record.
This saved us from all playing in the studio on Day 1 to a click (metronome)
This also meant Spice could spend the whole day laying the drums down to all the tracks. He was only with us on Day 1 and Day 5 due to commitments.
It was really successful too.
We had achieved everything we needed to on Day 1 concerning the drums.
Next was to head back to the house and shoot the Crowd fund video.
This was great fun and I think we finished about 10pm.
(If you haven’t seen it then please head to our Official YouTube channel and check it out (“wake me up before you indi go go”)
We should so do more group videos, it was a total scream.
Spice needed to get back for Uni the next day so we decided to drop him home and pick up some food along the way. This meant a late night but it was great to not have to worry about being up at 5am for work.
Jake crashed over at ours and now Day 2 was all about that Bass.
Up bright and early and out the door to try and beat Monday’s commuting traffic. Not hugely successful but we arrived on time.
Miguel called a meeting and we all sat down and made a plan for the next few days.
I don’t want to give too much away here concerning the number of tracks.
But we decided to do two tracks with Bass guitar, then Rhythm guitar followed by Lead guitar. Then hopefully a Lead vocal to finish the day (day 2)
Then day 3 the same again.
Then say, day 4 more work and backing vocals.
Day 5 would be mixing.
But this was Day 2.
Jake settled in and me and Grace got the cups of teas in.
A long day ahead but Jake nailed his parts and as normal Miguel was part mixing along the way. The bass was completed on the two tracks and it was then Rhythm guitars followed by vocals.
But for some reason I wasn’t feeling the vocal on the Monday night.
So I spoke to Miguel and said let’s do my vocals fresh in the morning. I think at first he thought I was crazy.
But I really am a morning person so I was happy to start the day doing vocals straight out the gate.
Yep, this really was a crazy week. We just played the Actress and Bishop and now 50 hours over 5 days in the studio which finishes at 8pm Thursday and then a gig, self titled “Escape the Studio” at the Giffard Arms in Wolverhampton on the Friday night.
So on the Monday night Grace went back into the studio and finished the Solo parts on those two songs we had been working on that day.
Day 3 (Tuesday) consisted of the same program.
I put the lead vocal down on both tracks completed yesterday and the vocals felt great. I was really happy with them.
Then we then started Laying the bass down, rhythm guitars and then lead for the next two tracks.
Day 4,...Wednesday and suddenly the week is flying by.
We came in and I went straight to the vocal booth as before to warm up. I did the vocal on the two completed yesterday and again they went down smoothly.
Grace was also working on solos again today, she also completed her backing vocals on this day as well.
We finished around 6pm and Miguel started to work on the mix.
Day 5, (Thursday) Spice was back today and we needed to hit some of his backing vocals alongside Jake and then get straight back to a day of mixing.
I’m sure there will be a full listing of the tracks soon.
But overall it was a great week.
We are super happy with the outcome and can’t wait to launch our Debut "Banished from the Heavens Ep" into the Wild real soon.
Until next time. When we conclude the “No sleep till Wolverhampton”
Keep it Wild,
KT x