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On October 19th 2003, we gathered in Backstreet Studios in Holloway Rd, North London to begin recording the album that was to become 'Osbert Scoon'. We've been working on it so long that Matthew and Mike hadn't even joined the band when we began. It seems an absolute age ago, but fin...

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Wow, How Time Flies

I can't believe it's July already!. So, what have we been up to lately. Well, Dan has been finishing mixing our 'Osbert Scoon' album. We are hopeful of releasing that next month. We've also got together and begun recording our next album. We plan to do this one in much more of a relaxed 'campfi...

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12/5/06 Gig

It just shows how quickly your priorities can change. In my last post I was worrying that we might not perform as well as last time. Then, on the Wednesday before the gig, I came down with a horrible flu-bug. By Thursday night I was shivering uncontrollably, and had a fever. My wife was spon...

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How long does it take to make an album?  I suppose it depends. When we were all single, we thought nothing of spending a whole weekend recording up at Mark's house, and were able to release a CD a year. Now we've got partners, wives and in some cases babies. It took us 2 years and 10 m...

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Expectations

The mind is a funny thing. For years I've come away from each gig with something that I could be self-critical about, feeling frustrated that we didn't sound as great as I know we can. Finally, our gig last November was almost the perfect gig. great crowd, great sound engineer and great performan...

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Garageband.Com

Chris, Dan and I have been doing some reviewing over at Garageband.Com. It's a cool site, and the quality of some of the stuff on there is really cool. I reviewed Paul Steel's Rust and Dust  http://www.garageband.com/artist/paulsteel which is the best Beach Boys-esque song I've heard in ab...

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There's something really wonderful about the first rehearsal for a new gig. Getting together with people you get on with, a bit of friendly chat, you plug everything in and WOW..you can still play, and the magic is still there. A new rehearsal also means new songs. We have one brand new one thi...

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The Year So Far

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