THE FEST 9!

We are heading back to Gainesville florida once again this October to play at No Idea Record's The Fest 9!

We are very excited! We are going to be touring down the East Coast from New York to Florida a week or so with our bestest buddies Static Radio NJ... COWABUNGA!

We also have a lot of other exciting stuff going on in-between now and then including a European tour with the mighty Bangers throughout September, the release of our new record, 'Dead Sea' and a UK/Ireland tour in early October. 

There will be more details about the release of 'Dead Sea' very soon...

Punk 'n' Bowl V!

This is our next show, be there or be square...

crunch wrap supreme

our friend Owen Richards was snapping away at our show at South Of The Border last friday, here are some of his photos...

everything sucks today, tomorrow!

we are playing our first show since the beginning of may tomorrow night in east london. it should be a lot of fun, we are going to play some new songs i think...

here is the poster with all the info that you need to know;

in other news, the holy Joseph Pies finished up the artwork for our long awaited split 7" featuring El Morgan featuring us and Kelly Kemp featuring Bangers - i guess that means that it might be out soon...

we'll keep you posted!

recording 'Dead Sea' - Day 6

We carried on with vocals as soon as we got to the studio yesterday morning, we had four songs and a cover to do...

We used the same technique of Miles doing a song or two and then giving him a breather whilst i did the back ups, we got there in the end. Once the vocals were done we had a list of various other things that we still had to record, but before we could get down to doing all that stuff Pugs had to lay down one line in the Dead Milkmen cover that we have recorded, he did it in one take, what a pro!

The cover, as well as another song is going to be featured on a split 7" entitled, 'Banana Split' with New Jersey's Static Radio some time soon.

We recorded a bunch of roomy sounding screams and breathing and shit,

we recorded our friend Nic saying a couple of lines of a song over the phone

and we recorded a bunch of other bits too that will be subtly featured in various places on the record so look out for them.

That was it, we were done!

Now all that is left to do is mixing and mastering. Tim had time to mix one song and gave it to us to take away and think about, i think it sounds great so in theory mixing the rest of them shouldn't be so hard. We are heading back to the studio this coming friday to finalise everything, then the plan is to get it released as soon as possible, hopefully before october, fingers crossed!

Recording 'Dead Sea' - Day 5

Yesterday we did vocals all day long! 

There were a shit load of songs to get through, ideally we wanted to get them all done so that we could spend the whole of the final day mixing but it didn't really work out this way, we did get a lot done though, it's just that everything takes way longer than we initially think... especially the small things and it's the little things that count right? 

(insert small dick joke here)

Miles has loads of super high parts and and screamy bits in these songs so to keep him from blowing his voice out he would do a couple of full songs and then i would do the back ups straight away so that he could have a little rest...

I suck at singing, the difference between mine and Miles' singing stamina is pretty obvious when we are recording. I pretty much  blew my voice out just doing the back ups.

 arghhh wooo oohhh ahhh, kinda like that but load as sh*t!

In-between songs we hung out in the control room, we watched a little bit of this, some of this and a whole lot of these!

By the end of the day the checklist looked like this, it was actually pretty productive in hindsight.

One more day to go...

Recording 'Dead Sea' - Day 4

I didn't get to the studio until lunch time yesterday, Jenks cracked on with his guitar parts until about 3:30 and then Tim finished off the rest of his parts, it took all day long but the geetars got finished!

Big Bad Roy Jenksins popped in for a quick listen on his way home from work, if we get time Roy is going to record a few guitar licks for one of the songs, i really hope we get time!

that is more or less all that happened yesterday i think... sorry that this post is kind of boring, blame Jenks and Tim i guess. We are doing the vocals tomorrow/today (geez) and then this record is done...

Last week our friend Owen Richards visited us and come to a practice session to take some photos to put together for the insert and what not - we went for a Joe's Ice Cream too.

Recording 'Dead Sea' - Day 3

Yesterday we continued with the geetars...

Jenks got right into it from the word go and powered through about 5 songs

Then Tim showed up. This was the first time Tim had been here because of his grueling work schedule as Timmy train driver. As he is so pushed for time he had to boot Jenks out of the live room and get right to work with his own guitar parts - Jenks wasn't happy about this at all because he was "in the zone."

Tim got down to business and was killing lick after lick. 

Meanwhile the rest of us sat around and listened, we also drank lots of coffee... again! 

I don't usually drink any coffee at all, the caffeine is starting to mess with my mind i think.

There are quite a few songs on this record that have plenty of room for feedback and dynamic noise. Yesterday we spent quite a lot of time fucking around with pedals to try and create intense feed back, it was pretty fun listening to Tim and Jenks fuck around with it. Miles is a bit of a pro when it comes to this so he was watching them like a hawk and giving them all kinds of tips. For example, if you flip the guitar around and face it at the cabinet then you get high tones, where as holding it to the cab with the strings facing you get low tones, pretty cool right!?

These are some of the pedals the they used, most of the coolest noise was created by a pedal named, 'Dr. Distorto!'

Things are moving along swiftly but these damn 6 string folk sure take their sweet time over the in between stuff! This is what the check list looked like at 7pm;

Hopefully we will start vocals the next day (which is today as I am writing this, man, this coffee is confusing the space/time continuum in my branium.)

Thanks for stopping by!

Jamie