In early September, The City Council gathered for 10 days of writing and recording to finish material slated for release on The Singles – Season 3, as well as working on a bunch of new stuff for the vault. We put the finishing touches on about 14 songs, and started quite a few brand new ones. We filmed as often as we could and posted the videos on our Youtube page HERE.You'll see a lot of the silliness in between, but once we got to work we were WAY too absorbed in what we were doing to pick up the camera..... So yes, we DO actually do things besides sit around and laugh like 8-year olds ;-)



Some high points: Since the weather was gorgeous, Aya and Mike set up the Mini-Studio under the beautiful blue sky and tracked the vocal parts for one of the new songs. Of course, there was a picnic blanket and a bottle of wine involved.... Lou decided he needed a project while we were working on guitar parts or something not involving drums, so he turned the drum shield into a mini hockey dasher. Really.... He spent a lot of time on it, and it actually looks pretty damn good!
 
IATSE Brother Chris Barker let us dip into his mic closet, loaning us a pair of Microtech Gefell UMT-70s and a pair of AKG 414s (the super amazingly awesome TLII series). Tone Deaf was on a roll, and added 4 or 5 new pieces to the Kicksville Museum of Weirdo Art. Conrad got to record with our new 6-string Pedulla Thunderbass for the first time, and in between everything else, Mike spent a bunch of time setting up the new Kicksville lighting computer. All in all, we had a great time as usual, and got a shite-load of work done - despite the extensive clowning around....