Hello!
It's been a life time since I did one of these. 2009 started and now we're mid Feb. fuck where are the days going. Does anyone still use myspace? Does any one still read my blogs? Once upon a time I did three a week. Now I'm a lazy fuck that sits in a studio all day... more of that in a bit.
SO. last year ended a bit shit. Our distribution company went under thus forcing our label to stop being  label (for the time being anyway). We lost most/alot of our equipment in the nambucca fire. alot of our best friends all became homeless. we lost our free rehearsal room to the fire which forced us into a playing breaj. Now we haven't not played in 5 years so all of a sudden to have so much free time was WEIRD! I busied myself by playing a lot of wii and debating excersice. instead i just played wii. I stopped playing guitar for a bit to see if a break would inspire me but that made me depressed so I stopped tht quick.
Christmas was ace.
New year... So we still hadnt sorted a rehearsal room so we decided to just start recording and demo'in away. The songs turned out to be so different from everything we had written in 2008 that we came to the decison to scrap it all and to start the record again. The songs are in no way shit and I think would have made a grand second record but the urge to do something incredibly different was overwhelming. I think we may release all the demo's to what would have been 6NS 2 at some point this year. There are 20 odd tracks and all make me smile.
It's made us feel incredibly artisic again, maybe like when the beatles stopped touring and decided to be a studio band (no i am not comparing us to the beatles). All of a sudden the recording possibilities are endless.The different sounds you can use. drum machines. playing with weird vocal harmonies and using crazy sound loops.
As soon as we got recording the studio fell in to place and we are now using a space in clapham which is great as i've never lived so central in London. We are hard at work 5/6 days a week, still broke, but loving it. We hope for the recording to be ready for late spring, maybe before...
Since we have not been touring I have been playing solo shows. It's sometimes amazing and sometimes sad. The good ones you get a massive rush. Not sharing the stage with people being applauded is a very selfish sensation. Nice but weird. Sad because sometimes I just want to be playing with band again. Not seeing the other guys on stage can be lonely. I don't know how solo artists can go it alone. It must be a quite boring on tour not having so many people around you, and not sharing everything.
So now... i'm off to record.
LOVELOVELOVELOVE!!!!
gerry x