When The Tea Runs Out is the tilte of one of the songs I am recording at the moment. Yes, almost nearly a year since I started playing acoustic guitar, I am actually recording what could loosely be regarded as an albums worth of material. Basically, what I'm doing is recording everything I have played live, plus one or two other tracks in one hit over a few days that will probably get released about February time to coincide with the anniversary of my first solo gig in Sheerness (Here)
I have debated doing this for a while and thought that as I have no one but myself to answer to, I will do as I please and being offered the services of a local sound engineer to record and mix it for sod all, I jumped at the chance. What else was I going to do ... No thanks mate, I'm going to pay a few hundered quid per day to go into a studio so I can get pretty much the same sound as your gear and listen to someone who doesnt know me or my sound telling me what they think is best and pay for the preivilidge ... I am not that fucking daft. So DIY it is and a nice pleasant change it is as well.
So after the guitar led day one its time to do some guide vocal. I think I may be getting a cold, four songs in and my voice is croaky as fuck. Time to have a quick mixdown of one of the tracks - pick the roughest one of the lot and mix - result - not too bad ot too good either - here it is and will only be here for a little while
Two weeks later and most of what has been recorded has been scrapped. Including the above track as I did not feel that it was good enough. A sit down with the sound guy and a good think is what is needed. I still plan to have something out in February but whether it is an album or not remains to be seen.
One good thing came out of it tho ... I got a new track which I will be doing live at the following dates.
Im on early for all of them and all of them are free entry.
November
1st - Garlinge (Nr Margate), The Rodney supporting Black Rose
8th - Ramsgate, Red Lion supporting Cozy Dunts
14th - Canterbury, Maidens Head - TBC
15th - Sheerness, The Castle supporting Ted Dibiase & The Million Dollar Punk Band, All Flags Burn,
The Half Wits, Deanos Hose
December
20th - Ramsgate, Elephant & Castle supporting Cozy Dunts, The Shammed
And more next year
