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shermaramaThree bands last night; Constant State Of Terror, the Restarts and Born Dead. CSOT are local and include, I'm told, the drummer from Combat Shock, which is a shock as I thought he was the weakest part of them. No hats is all very well as an idea but it left him with nothing cutting. The Restarts were good musicians all round, the noisiest three piece I've heard in a while, with amusingly rigidly monotone singing but coming from all three of them in a tag-team way, including convincingly from the drummer. Fast and loud and with a few interesting details, if basically your conventional punk band.
Born Dead were probably the most conventional of the lot, but I can't tell you much about them as I was mainly being amused by the drummer. Hitting hard and with very fast hands, huge long rolls all over the shop and doing all the usual stuff but a bit faster than I can do it. Made me want to jump in the loft and do some straight technique practice. Drumming as sport, still not topping the bloke from Bruce Bannner as most impressive speed drummer I've seen in person but in the same league.
I've now got a nobby laptop soundcard, a channel strip connected by Lightpipe and a bunch of mikes. I still haven't acquired a condenser, or maybe pair thereof, for overheads, but I've now got kit to record up to ten mic channels at once, based on one slim 19" rackmount unit, one box about six inches square and my handily A4 laptop and this is good. The next trick is to fiddle with all the setup and virtual mixer program such that I've got a standard template for all the channels I'll likely use, and get the hang of where everything goes and what can be messed with, such that I can go into a room with a drum kit and spend the set-up time on interfacing the already-familiar recorder with the drumkit rather than wasting it on software-wrestling.
If we're going to be recording I really do need that new crash too, the Thunder one has a six-inch rip in it now and it getting silly. It's throwing it down out there, but today I don't have to go to work in it so it looks great and the cooler air coming with it is lovely. I'll head out and see what I can find later.
And Esoteric are doing their fabulous dooom thing in Cambridge tonight and I intend to be there. This weekend had looked like it was all about gigging again, which is a nice idea in principle but we could do with giving New Cross and the very disorganised gigs a bit of a rest for a while, so when it became clear that the people who'd offered us a gig there had managed to get confused about it again, that got dropped. We need to get some other places. Which principally means we need an actual operational demo which, ha-ha! we may now be able to record ourselves, you see? Jodie's off at Reading next weekend, there's no PJ practice next week, so I've got til the weekend after to work out how to record an entire demo on this here laptop. If this all works I will be an extremely happy bunny.
Born Dead were probably the most conventional of the lot, but I can't tell you much about them as I was mainly being amused by the drummer. Hitting hard and with very fast hands, huge long rolls all over the shop and doing all the usual stuff but a bit faster than I can do it. Made me want to jump in the loft and do some straight technique practice. Drumming as sport, still not topping the bloke from Bruce Bannner as most impressive speed drummer I've seen in person but in the same league.
I've now got a nobby laptop soundcard, a channel strip connected by Lightpipe and a bunch of mikes. I still haven't acquired a condenser, or maybe pair thereof, for overheads, but I've now got kit to record up to ten mic channels at once, based on one slim 19" rackmount unit, one box about six inches square and my handily A4 laptop and this is good. The next trick is to fiddle with all the setup and virtual mixer program such that I've got a standard template for all the channels I'll likely use, and get the hang of where everything goes and what can be messed with, such that I can go into a room with a drum kit and spend the set-up time on interfacing the already-familiar recorder with the drumkit rather than wasting it on software-wrestling.
If we're going to be recording I really do need that new crash too, the Thunder one has a six-inch rip in it now and it getting silly. It's throwing it down out there, but today I don't have to go to work in it so it looks great and the cooler air coming with it is lovely. I'll head out and see what I can find later.
And Esoteric are doing their fabulous dooom thing in Cambridge tonight and I intend to be there. This weekend had looked like it was all about gigging again, which is a nice idea in principle but we could do with giving New Cross and the very disorganised gigs a bit of a rest for a while, so when it became clear that the people who'd offered us a gig there had managed to get confused about it again, that got dropped. We need to get some other places. Which principally means we need an actual operational demo which, ha-ha! we may now be able to record ourselves, you see? Jodie's off at Reading next weekend, there's no PJ practice next week, so I've got til the weekend after to work out how to record an entire demo on this here laptop. If this all works I will be an extremely happy bunny.
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Date: 2005-08-19 09:17 am (UTC)Hrrrmm!
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Date: 2005-09-03 01:02 am (UTC)Placebo, meanwhile, excite the ire of a friend of mine who went to the same school as Brian Molko, who was known (apparently) as an intolerable thesp. In much the same way as Gomez do me, since I went to school with two of them and had a terrible teenage crush on their drummer but always thought their bassist (later to be the guitarist/one of the two vocalists who can't sing) was a waste of space.
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Date: 2005-08-19 09:34 am (UTC)As you probably know, the first Raveonettes album had no cymbals at all, as part of their Dogme-esque rules thing. Which is probably why it's full of tambourines.
Six-inch rip in the crash? Ouch.
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Date: 2005-08-19 10:06 pm (UTC)