19 posts tagged “shortwave fade”

Hi, just uploading a preview of  'Lost In A Hurricane', our new single due for release on 15th December....please take a listen and let us know what you think! We're back in the studio again this week to add a final (brand new) track to the album...it's been a few months since we finished recording and mixing the other tracks but we felt this one was too good not to go on as well, and so back to The Magic Garden we go :) We've been working solidly on the new track for the last few weeks now and we're pretty sure it's going to sound ace - we're certain in fact ;) !

We'll post a preview soon, we promise!! x

Thought I'd better post this track today and give it a mention as it's currently free to download for one week only...finishing tomorrow - great timing, I know! :) This is an early unmastered version of 'You Were Right' one of the tracks from the forthcoming album 'Deletia', which is shaping up nicely for a release in a couple of months. This track is a sort of short, but very epic ballad if that makes any sense at all. As I said it's not the finished article but hopefully you'll like it anyway....and if you do, you can download it for free at slicethepie.com! But not for long (erm sorry about that)! x

 

 

We're kind of nearly getting there at last....We've spent some time back in the studio this month going over the final mixes of tracks for the album 'Deletia'. It's all coming together really well now although we're up against it trying to meet our planned release date - but so it goes!  :) Thought I'd upload something new from the album anyway and see what people think. This is a brand new track called 'Army Of Two'. It'll be the last song on the album.....and is quite short and gentle sounding compared to a lot of the stuff we've posted previously so thought it might make a nice change! The songs we've put down for the album itself are quite diverse, but hopefully this'll give some idea of the range of sounds we're going for anyway...Gavin did an excellent job producing this - thankfully he really knew what we were trying to achieve with the ending - which is always a good thing ;) Hope you like it anyway!

...we posted again - long overdue in fact! Well at least we have some exciting news to write about anyway. We've now finished the album...well recording-wise that is. It's currently being mixed and we're hoping to have it all ready in the next couple of weeks for a release in mid-late September - which is not much later than we'd originally planned so we've not done too badly! The party will be at Notting Hill Arts Club on Sat 13th Sept and we hope some of you can make it....but more on that later!

We had a great time recording the album with Gavin who has possibly the widest knowledge of music/musicians/artists - ranging from the mainstream to the totally obscure - that any of us have ever encountered! He also has an amazing array of equipment, aquired over the years too including speakers that belonged to the stones, a vintage Neve that allegedly appears in Bowie's Space Oddity video (not sure if I can see it though!) and a custom Shergold once owned by Bernard Sumner that we got to use on a couple of tracks (see below)!

The album is called 'Deletia' and currently consists of 12 tracks (though that may change) including new mixes of 'Stay As You Are' and Cover Your Eyes'. We're really happy with the way everything sounds so far and can't wait to get it out there for people to hear.....In the meantime though, we selected a track called 'Leave' as the first single, which is now all ready and set for release on  8th September. You  can preview it below, so please have a listen and as always, any comments (particularly nice ones) would be greatly appreciated

Finally, just to update you on
some confirmed live dates for next month  - would of course be great to see
any of you can make any of them:

1st July - The Purple Turtle, Camden

Yes after much agonising we've at last settled on a producer for the album, which is a huge relief to say the least! We finally opted to work with Gavin Monaghan at his studio in Wolverhampton. We'd had Gavin in mind for some time, having heard about him through his earlier work with The Editors and The Twang etc....having met him, we were quite blown away to discover what a truly pleasant and positive chap he is - not that we should have expected him to be otherwise of course ;) .

It's nice (and reassuring) when someone you've just met seems to share the same ideas and perspectives on your music that you do...we found that straight away when when we met with Gavin for the first time, and we're now expecting some very big and epic things when we get in to the studio in May. We're really hyped up about the whole thing right now, and have already written about 3-4 new tracks since the start of the year, some of which are definitely going to be making it onto the album - and we thought we had the tracklisting planned out in December! It's looking like an early August release right now, so we'd better start planning a party.....any ideas would of course be very welcome!

Hope you are all good

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...since we've posted anything on Vox - and that's probably because it has been! We'll try and keep things updated a bit more frequently from now on...

For now, a quick posting just to say that we made it into yesterday's Telegraph in a feature on slicethepie! I've tried to scan the article below, but couldn't fit the whole page under the scanner unfortunately, so have just got the main bit in that mentions us! If you want to read the whole thing (it's not a bad article) you can view it online here.

We recently did an interview for slicethepie as well which talks a bit more about our experience of the whole thing - you can view that on the site here. It's been quite reassuring to look through the forums and see that people on the site have been buying quite a few contracts in us already. It doesn't affect our status with the financing etc, but it's good to know that there are people up there ready and willing to start investing money in our album already!

Speaking of which, we're now moving swiftly onward with the album preparation. We've yet to make a final decision on who we'll be working with and where, but we have a pretty good idea at least - please get in touch with any suggestions or recommendations though..they're all appreciated. Our first step towards getting things sorted has been to move out of our old room (small, dirty, unusual smelling and with a large pole in the middle)

 

 

 

 

 

....and into a far bigger, cleaner, better-sounding rehearsal space. Though it's completely black at the minute, and too dark to photograph - why do we always seem to inherit rooms form metal bands? It's a good place to be though and is setting the mood nicely for working through the album tracks (which we hope to start rough-demoing in a few weeks time). Needless to say we're verrry excited about the new material we have lined up for now! We'll hopefully get some tracks up here as we go along, and see if we can get some early feedback from anyone willing to give their views.

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...we won! Woohoo! The Slicethepie showcase that is of course..and hence £15,000 to record our first album. It's been such a mad week that I'd not gotten around to posting it here, but needless to say we are all made up about it and looking forward to starting the album in the New Year :) Huge thanks go out to anyone and everyone who supported us by spreading the word and voting for us in the showcase - we couldn't have done it without you!

For anyone who is interested in the whole slicethepie thing (you can read all about how it works here), you can now buy 'backstage passes' in us for £5. These basically pre-order you a copy of the album, allow you access to our backstage area at slicethepie.com (for updates on the album's progress etc), and enable you to buy 5 'contracts' (basically shares in the financial success of the album) at a discounted rate for trading purposes. To be honest, I find the whole trading side of things pretty confusing, but it seems to be pretty popular with some users of the site, and there is money to be made through it all apparently....as long as the artists sell some records at the end of it all that is! :)

In any case, it's all good for us, and we're just happy to be able to put our energy into a whole album's worth of material without searching for money to fund it...or waiting for a recording contract. It was a nice pre-Christmas present to say the least!

In other news, we'll be playing at The Jericho Tavern in Oxford tomorrow night, which should be great as it's an excellent venue and we had a really good time there last time we played. If there are any Oxford people out there please come along and check us out if you can! Doors are at 8pm and it's a fiver to get in....

Happy Xmas all!! (to use the abbreviation that we all hate!)

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Damn! This is exciting - I think I'm going to chew my arm off before this thing is over! For any of you that haven't heard us yelling about it for the last week or so, we are in the indie/rock showcase at slicethepie.com - a site where artists get their songs reviewed, and those with the highest ratings compete for financing (from users of the site) of £15,000 to produce an album. The earnings from said album are then shared with those who helped finance it (hence the slice-a-da-pie).

Along with 13 other artists we made it through to the showcase stage where a final winner is voted upon to gain the financing...and we're now in 1st place! Thanks so much to any and every one who has voted for us so far - and especially to Rachel and Krissy at Vox for featuring our plight on the explore page this week!

We are not yet in the clear however, as the showcase doesn't close until next Wednesday..and it is a very close race at the minute! If you haven't voted already, please take a moment to help us out by registering (for free)  and voting for us in the showcase. It only takes a minute, but we're at the stage where literally every vote makes a difference!

In all the excitement, we had almost forgotten about gigs! We'll be playing at the Lark in the Park, Islington this coming Tuesday (11th December) for any of you London-based Voxers, who'd like to come along. We should be hitting the stage around 9pm, and it'd be great to meet up with any of you that can make it...

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Just found out that we are currently running 2nd place in the indie/rock showcase at slicethepie.com! This is really exciting news as it means we have a real chance of winning the financing for our first album!! I was contacted yesterday by a journalist running an article on sites like slicethepie and sellaband, who wants to interview us about this so with any luck we'll (hopefully) be getting some national press exposure for it next week. We just need some more votes to clinch it and hopefully the press coverage will give us a boost in that respect!

You could still really help us out by voting for us before December 12th when the showcase closes. All you need to do is follow these few simple steps:

 

1. Register (for free) at slicethepie here - it only takes a minute.
2. Click on the 'showcases' tab in the menu at the top, then click on 'Indie/Rock 1' - or just follow this link
3. Press 'vote'
4. You will see the details of all 14 showcase artists including ourselves. Click 'vote' next to Shortwave Fade and     confirm.....and that's it!!

 

Doing this one thing for us will definitely help us out and help make a difference. Huge thanks to any Voxers who have supported us already - it means a lot to us...and please...spread the word!!!

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