final photo's from Lost Boy's

Sam has yet to share, and these are the last i got. Hope you had fun, we did. Who knows how these songs will turn out, but already, all the mistakes are going through my head. Parts that need to be re-done, things that need to be taken out etc.. etc.. Just boring control freak stuff.

thanks for reading.

It gets scary on a farm at night...


When we packed up, the animals decided to hold a meeting...


I think this photo truly sums up the title - 'When Kids Attack'...

Day 5

Well...

ITS ALL DONE ! ITS ALL DONE ! ITS ALL DONE ! ITS ALL DONE ! ITS ALL DONE ! ITS ALL DONE ! ITS ALL DONE ! ITS ALL DONE ! ITS ALL DONE ! ITS ALL DONE ! ITS ALL DONE ! ITS ALL DONE ! ITS ALL DONE ! ITS ALL DONE ! ITS ALL DONE ! ITS ALL DONE ! ITS ALL DONE ! ITS ALL DONE ! ITS ALL DONE ! ITS ALL DONE ! ITS ALL DONE ! ITS ALL DONE ! ITS ALL DONE ! ITS ALL DONE ! ITS ALL DONE ! ITS ALL DONE ! ITS ALL DONE ! ITS ALL DONE ! ITS ALL DONE ! ITS ALL DONE ! ITS ALL DONE ! ITS ALL DONE ! ITS ALL DONE ! ITS ALL DONE ! ITS ALL DONE ! ITS ALL DONE ! ITS ALL DONE ! ITS ALL DONE ! ITS ALL DONE ! ITS ALL DONE !

4 tracks -

A simple Way
When Kids Attack
How the West Won its Suicide
Left Arm in Love

Would you like to hear them? Us too. Spud's on the mix right now.

It's all a bit bizzare. Definately a week of extreme lows and extreme highs. They sit side by side.

AMIT: "We've worked hard for this..."
CHAZ: "Now we're gonna work even harder."

and you know what, he's right. There's no rest for the wicked, and it seems there's no rest for 3 boys who love music and want to play till the cows come home (that's us by the way). We've worked hard and now its play-time. Come see us in the playground and we'll play you tune's for cookies.

peace/piece

Friday the 13th @ Lost Boys Studio

4 tracks to toy with. We're giving 'Warehouse Throng' a miss due to lack of time. No one could be more upset about this than me, but then, these 4 tracks are sounding pretty good, and the extra time we have to do things to this might make the loss worthwhile. Forgive me if i'm not making much sense. Its 5:16am and i've just attempted vocals to 'Left Arm in Love'.

Techically we're into our 5th day already and it's friday the 13th. Not long to go now.

Interesting info. the day Spud learned to use pro-tools (the program this is all being recorded on/in) was the day of '9/11'. Bizzare & true.

Sleep time. I'm missing you.



Whilst i was doing this...


Charlie was doing this.



ahh. Bless.

What next?

Well, it seems that we've managed to get down the second half of WKA, 'How the West Won It's Suicide' and 'Left Arm in Love' today. It's still reasonably early, so that must be a good thing. I feel we may be working all night, however. Doing 'what' exactly... well, vocals and pianos for a start. And then... might have a cup of coffee or something, feels like we ain't done that in a while.

Left Arm in Love is playing in the backround as I write this. 'I don't want to speak soon' - take from that what you will (don't be cheaky).

I guess the point I'm trying make is that this is the final night in the studio. Let's get on with.

stasi + spud = Day 4 (?)

This sucks. Should i be honest... I think it's the best thing. I feel like we are well and truly screwed. We're just not achieving. It's lazy, it's under-performed, it's useless. We've just come back from a shop so food might kick us into gear. There would be nothing that would make me more happier than if we just fucking did our shit and got more than one song done every two days. Who wants to be involved in something where the productivity is so low?

Well me, actually.

Maybe we need more time, but we're not giving up. Always move forward. It doesn't matter what you do or what cards you are dealt. This is in our hands, and in our hands we will move forward. One awful step at a time.

Don't worry. We're smiling our way through.

[A few hours later....]

Food must've been good. We finally shook out 'WKA' and now we're moving through 'How the West Won int's Suicide'. I don't want to say anymore and jinx it all.

more random photo's...




(F.Y.I - Motorways are evil things. Avoid at all costs.)

Day 4 cont...

Sticks/Strings/Leads

This is more like it. Up early and arses into gear, we MIGHT actually get a full day's recording done and it WILL be mind-blowing. There's a lot to do today and the first task is, perhaps, for a few sleep-deprived souls to rise from the hazy mists of purgatory and spring back to life. I'll give 'em (us) five minutes.

Go.

Day 4 and an early start.

We're here and up and this gives us an enormous advantage. Last night was a vocal night. Some nice new ideas for 'A Simple Way'. Here be some new lyrics (in no particular order)...

I like your structures, they're so well produced
Looks ke a soul-less, pitiful excuse
not very 3-d or very free
will it inspire coz it doesn't inspire me

Burn the house down with this noise
Just push stop on the machine
Go ahead
Go ahead
Go ahead
maybe Grow a head too.

A little bit more tension, but i think tired people just get cranky. I can't complain, the future depends on it.

If we get 'How the West Won it's Suicide' and the 'Throng' song down, maybe we can think about getting 'Left Arm...' done today too.

With an early start anything can happen. More pictures on the way (but later today)

Day 3 @ the 'Boy's are Lost' Studio

We let late starts happen. This isn't good, it isn't productive. What is productive is an early start (post-run) with good breakfast and a prayer to the God of Rock. "Oh God of Rock...", we shall say, "Give us the power to play our songs awesomely. The tools to shred ears through your mighty distortion and power-house beats. In your name we will lay waste to the ears of the people, and bloody our hands with your prog tendancies and punk routine."

When kids attack is kicking out of the speakers and it sounds good. Its all so very rough but it's so nearly there. We've been recording live (as opposed to recording our bits seperately, then pasting them together in Pro-tools afterwars) and the sound coming out is much more alive. There's a long way to go, but the first few steps have been made and the ground is nice.

Photo's... (These were taken 2 hours apart)




(we work hard, we sit hard)
also, dont everuse otex eardrops (anyone) . the evil stuff gets stuck in ears and can piss u off for days ( pissed off)

cant think of anything to write now ... but i shall stall for a while as the laptop provides warmth to the lap which can be desirable when stoned and besides spuds going on about jazz so theres not much else to do
......

more phototototo...s

And we're off with 'A simple Way'. Arguments have started but no-one has been hurt... yet. Troubles with Bass and Guitar sounds. Shit-hot drumming from Charlie 'cycles' Vessey. Maybe it'll explode? here's some pics...

Lee making us cuppa's...


FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT !!!


[Random]

Day 2

Sticks/Strings/Leads

D A Y 2 @ L O S T B O Y S

After this recording I need to learn some basic HTML coz I want to be able to post pretty-looking messages too... To be able to post pretty-sounding messages however, is something that - I'd like to believe - cannot be achieved through accurately learning how to code a series of less-attractive 0's and 1's. Nor can it be achieved through only having had a few hours sleep, after a long day of setting/testing up and a sllightly nerve-wrecking journey home (the sight of multi-ton articulated lorries approaching at seemingly wreckless speeds, ascending blind slopes in the pitched black of the early morning is an experience for anybody who's ever wanted to be fuckED like a rabbit IN THE HEADLIGHTS).

Anyhow, we have returned to our abode and, after having shed small fragments of crankiness built up from the previous night, we're ready to go. Time to unleash the beast, as it were.

Day 1 @ 'Lost Boys Studios'

How fitting eh? Here's some pics. We've spent all morning getting our shit together and now we're here. Dude, this is so out of the way it's crazy. Time to make some music methinks, but first...