Scorpion Jack: Blog

Awesome night last night down at the gaslight sessions with tim cobain and the dead presidents.  Mighty craic and great sound and wonderful crowd.
All the sets were recorded so we are looking forward to hearing some tasty stuff down the line and can't recommend the night enough, keep up the great work, wonderful fun and thanks to everyone who came along and made us feel like rock stars, some of you even bought our cd's and for that we love you long time.

Sitting in the studio having just hit the record button with Rohan in the Live room at Lib Lab recording studio where we are recording the track Apple Bomb. Have a lovely guitar that a kind friend lent us and it is a pleasure to play. We ate some curry earlier and before that we had too vacate the studio for a bit for one of the other engineers to get some data so we went for a bite to eat and came across all sorts of street performers, one magician and numerous other musicians who we knew, Peter from Rams Pocketradio and then Victor who helped us out at the successful Lib Lab night at the John Hewitt last week with a debut performance (well almost – with their new name anyway) from “The Emerald Armada”, ones to watch in the future judging by the wonderful following they had along with them.
 
We tried the John Hewitt again for some food and I had sausages and mash planted in my head by a suggestion from Kevin Largey who we bumped into on the corner whilst getting [...]

The recording studio has been an educational time for us.  We've been learning what works for us and what doesn't.  The number of different factors are large including the technique used for recording each song, the set up that we are used to, the instruments being tempremental, almost always my poor guitars that have to put up with me playing them day in day out, and then of course the particular song.  Food is important and apparently cinnamon is good for being quick of the ball.
Songs are coming together and whilst are initial release date will probably be pushed back so that we can get everything the way we want it and do the promo that it will require, we are not disheartened but satisfied that the time that we are spending now in the recording studio will in fact mean that the next album will be pretty quick.  This one, to be entitled, "No thanks, Yes please!" is acoustic with the exception of a little electric bass whereas the next album will be all over the place.
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