New Year, New Studio

Man, fresh paint makes your head funny...

Yes, we've resumed work in the studio – albeit at a slow pace. Our producer is two weeks on/two weeks off in the UK, so it's get in there while we can. We just made a start on working up a track which has gone through a few changes... a bit full circle on it now though... but it is slowly getting there. We all want different things tho, so we'll have to see what happens.

Anyway, new studio is nice – a far cry from recording in Corin's kitchen as we had been. And we can turn it up (to eleven) now, so all a lot easier. Hopefully, even though Corin's around less, we should make a faster progression.... hopefully. We're jsut really keen to get something out soon, but our situation is a little against us. Bah.

I'll post some photos when I get around to getting them of the camera....


BenG

News/No News.

Album going a little slower than expected, so we're not quite at full mixing stage by now (as we'd hoped), but we are going forwards... kind of.

We will keep posting news, but at the moment there hasn't been too much to report... Essoben and I did a little work last week and pushed one track a lot further... there are some bits we're really pleased with.... we just need to be able to do more of it, but unfortunately our studio situation is against us a bit (ie it's moving so we can't get in there for while)... but once back up and running we hope to steam ahead (slightly) quicker.

Ben G

Steaming on....

We're still progressing... I think every post here will pretty much be the same until we finish! We're recording piano tomorrow night on Dunk's new toy... finely tuned ready. We're getting to mixing stage with some tracks, and some of the experiments are coming together well, so it's looking like this album will have pretty varied moments, as with 'Scars'....

I bought a Harmonium recently which we want to try and use.... annoyingly tho, they're pitched differently to pianos... so not sure how we'll get around that....

Whatever, it should be good for some more Xmas tracks ;)


BenG

Album Update

September came and went. we've been quiet. Badly so. I personally got to the stage where an end was nowhere in sight...which can kill momentum (and spirit) on a huge scale....dont know about the other guys.

We're sorted now...things have started progressing at a rate of knots now (however fast that might be) - and we'll be mixing the new album come November. Early signs i think are promising. we'll see.

We may be quiet for a while longer...our heads are buried firmly into this project....we'll surface again shortly with a bucket full of info ...
and there will be a short tour come february/march....preceded by a couple of low key shows showcasing the new album.....

Thanks for your patience.
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Hello

Hello

I’m Ben the bass player from blueneck sometimes known as Essoben (though not very often nowadays) and I am ashamed to say that this is my first blueneck blog entry. Well, mildly ashamed anyway. I’m told that there were posts bad mouthing my lack of bloging but it seems they were so long ago they are now buried deep in the archive. So – apologies to all.

Corin is almost back from his massive holiday and we should be able to get quite a lot done in September! I also have to write a best mans speech which I will probably spend a couple or weeks worrying about and squeeze it into the night before. I’ve been looking at a few speaches online and they all have the same jokes in. Such as “during the service today I couldn’t help thinking its funny how history repeats itself, I mean it was 30 years ago David and Carol were sending their daughter to bed with a dummy………and it’s happening all over again today.” Boom boom. Best avoided.

I bought 4 Goblets at a reduced price from the local crystal shop only discover they smelled stoney when drank from. I then washed them many times in an attempt to erridaicate the stoney stench and left them in the dish washer as wash after wash went by. One of them broke which indicated that enough washing had been done and it was time to fix the broken one before tring to drink from them again. This is standard with Goblets I belive, and essential to get the smoking liquid effect!

Liverpool flawless on paper start is at odds with their woefull performances. Will me and Dunc manage to get up to a game this season? Last season was the first one when we didn’t manage to. Still we saw the Champions League semi final against Chelsea which takes quite a lot of beating.

Anyway I’m off to meet Ben (who’s birthday it was yesterday) and Dunc at the pub to talk about Blueneck a little but mainly to watch Liverpool beat Villa!

Essoben

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(sorry ben, posted this a couple of days late for you!! ben g)

Summer?

Hello

Yes... we've neglected the blog. Again. Sorry. We're having a bit of break from recording while Corins away, so we can take stock of what we have... and so far, we like it. You can see what we've been upto from the videos at Blueneck.com... the Alpha collaboration could be interesting – we just played to a loop, so I'm curious how Corin will fuse it with Alpha's sound... we shall wait and see...

We're also getting the ideas ready for the new album artwork... something to get our teeth into there methinks.

We should get back in the studio sometime in early Sept to continue work, so we'll keep you updayed with more stuff then.

TTFN

BenG

Oh, it's my birthday this weekend, so any presents will be gratefully received ;)

Beards. Thoughts. Anfield. Beards.

We've now entered a short break period in recording due to Corin selfishly going on holiday for 5 weeks. Things had really started progressing over the last few weeks so I guess in a way its quite dissapointing to stop...although really, its probably for the best as we can take a step back, look at what we have and decide what is needed to complete the tracks...we at least have what I think is the basis to the whole album now...The last few days i've been working on some of the vocals...some pretty straight forward, others maybe not so...see the problem is that a couple of the latter tunes have been written on my piano at home...which is in a slightly different key to the actual piano we use (ie my piano is out of key!) so ive found myself gasping for air now its in the right key. Man I talk shite.

As you may have read we thought we'd toy around with a few covers ideas...theres been plenty of suggestions and ive come across some really good music through those thoughts and ideas... so thanks for those...feel free to keep adding them....the forum at present seems to get read the most...well...by me anyhow....we thought we'd record a couple initially straight to video...so within a month you should see something uploaded.

Football season starts next week....about time! Me and ben really should be getting ourselves up to anfield more this season... its good for inspiration...inital hope...and then just despair! ...maybe things will change this year....and the next blueneck album will be full of short 2 minutes pop tunes?

Enough from me...im boring myself here...I need more new music recommendations ...theres a thread in the forum for this...its amazing what amazing music you've missed out on...


Dunk
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