Recording with Matt

Matt came down for a couple of nights this week, and we used the time to start re-recording a batch of songs from the old Heybabies - stuff we'd recorded before but lots the masters for, or if we had them, well let's say they were demos but not really good enough.
Matt turned up with a list of two album's worth of songs (OK, three if you're happy with only 12-14 songs instead of 20 on each disc) and basically we started at the top and worked down. Got about five or so done - at least the bare bones - before Matt had to head back to Auckland.
Anyway, I have a big list of things to do, but at least some of them now relate to music!
And: given that there are something like 20 variants of "Hey Babies" and 4 or 5 "Doubtful Sounds" already on MySpace and Amplifier, we'll probably need a new name sooner or later.

Say No! to Metal

Was in Slob Out today, bumped into Richard Mansfield.

Came up with another good name Say No to Metal (or alternatively Fear of Metal) when looking for the Mulchzoid album by David Mulcahy. They've rearranged the tables, so the Electronica section is next to the Metal section. Thus, accidentally browsing Modest Mouse, losing my place, suddenly I'm looking at Megadeath.

And, so far as I can tell, Mulchzoid's Laptop Dancer is good (and certainly has a good name, though I might have picked Mulcazoid for the band name :-). Sort of carries on from where Oddy Knocky left off, but with rather more techno, a bit of New Order in there, and a gratuitous female on the cover.

In other news, well, no posts from me from June till mid August. Got back from Paphos summer to an NZ winter, and went to ground, just trying to get through each day. Perhaps things will be better now.

St Mary's Curve

No music this week - we have our friend Annie over from Sydney, so we've mostly hung around with her, and drank...

But I have a couple of good new names:

difficult listening (except that it's used in lots of places) and

St Mary's Curve which seems like a great name for an album by someone, anyway...

The Whitecliff Poets

Went out for dinner to celebrate Fi's Birthday, and there were two bottles of wine: Whitecliffs and Poet's Corner

Hmm, thought I, The Whitecliff Poets...
sounds like the name of a band to me. Perhpas the acoustic scratch band playing junky cover versions of Jordan Luck tunes?

the other cool band name I came across this weekend was Selective Yellow which has to be a synth jam-band. And I suppose (sad bastard that I am) I've even got most of the gear.