Saturday
15th October @ the Sickroom Studios, Day Two. Pics: Tom, Matt and
Jake
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What
with halogen heaters that gave off more light than heat, cockerels
that decided to crow at 4.00 am rather than dawn and various trips
to the nettle urinals, sleep wasn't in great supply. Matt's desire
for bacon sandwiches and the thought of bettering yesterdays recording
results had us up and about. Lights Out was soon re-recorded with
the right amount of enthusiasm and presice playing we had been looking
for. To celebrate it was cheese sandwiches all round, and then time
for table tennis. After exerting much energy out in the fresh air,
we then had to capture a balls out version of Deathshead March.
Again it seemed all we needed was time for yesterdays rehearsal
to sink in, and to re-charge our batteries. We now had great takes
of both our full band tracks. Time to think about our acoustic side.
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Dave's
idea was to bridge the end of Lights Out and the start of The Room,
with an acoustic instrumental. The Room was a song that had been
written in a very acoustic way, and had never translated to the
full band setting satisfactorily. So we decided to take it back
to it's quiet roots and try to capture a lot of feeling and ambience.
The first plan was to record guitar, piano and vocals live, so as
to maximize the interaction between us. This didn't quite work,
as there was too much noise over spill from the singing onto the
other tracks. In the end Tom and Dave played their parts together
and it worked perfectly. Spurred on by our success, Tom added a
hugely distorted keyboard part to the louder sections, and I overlaid
the vocals. Things were starting to move along nicely now. We'd
gotten onto a roll. Time to call it a night and relax again. Feeling
more at home now we ventured down to the local pub and spent the
night enthusing about the days successes and drank on way into the
night. With no sign of the pub closing any time soon we left the
locals to their birthday celebrations and headed along the dark
country lane to bed. Sleep would not be an issue tonight.
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