News! 7 is now complete!!!

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Well there it is! 7 is put to bed! It is done! The recording is complete!

At 0530 on 14th October 2010, almost a mere two years from commencing, 7 is finally finished. It works out a 9 track album, with 70minutes of chewnery contained therein. It's been fun, frustrating, other words beginning with "f" and a darned good exercise all round. A few tracks have been previewed at the live giggings, and via the various online outlets, but there is about half the album that has still not be debuted anywhere.

Ha! Dex wasn't here! We did a groovy technical hookup thing over Skype so that we could raise glasses, but he's still on his sunburn vacation. By crikey he'll get a shock when he gets back to the Frozen Wastes - it's getting very chilly now. It's almost too cold to go out for a fag - well, it's not THAT cold. Let's not get too carried away.

Whilst in the celebratory mode, I am going to give what I believe is called in the trade a "big up" to my main man John Allison, creator of online webcomics "Scary Go Round" and "Bad Machinery", which I have been reading a lot of late. You can find them at these locations: http://scarygoround.com and http://sgrblog.blogspot.com - they really are wonderful and worth spending time reading when you should be working or doing something else! I haven't finished SGR yet, so Bad Machinery is still an unknown world to me. It's bound to be excellent though!

I suffered a terrible laptop accident here - I typed loads more, then the machine just died before I saved it all. So now I have to write it again. Anyway, here is the stuff as I remember it. Firstly, I wrote out a track listing for 7, which follows below:

1. Our Feature Presentation            0.10
2. Gniksam Drawkcab                3.20
3. I Close My Eyes                15.48
4. Rizla                        3.07
5. THX1138 (In Honour of George Lucas)        10.35
6. Hold Me In Your Arms Tonight (Radio Edit)    6.49
7. Chernobyl Hill Stalker Silent Zombies 2    18.38
8. You Can Not Win                9.28
9. The Flowers In The Dustbin            1.45

So there it is. It looks finished now I have listed it all. And yes, track 5 is in honour of George Lucas. He may have produced some questionable films since THX1138, but it remains one of my most favourite films ever ever ever. Thus track 5 is for him. I have just burned a test CD album to see how it works on disc, and am playing it via the old WinAMP version 2 - still my main music player.

In closing - if indeed I am closing - I should thank a few people for help and support around 7. As ever, my first enormous thanks go to Mrs. mad_vicar, who has to listen to endless mixes and remixes as I go about the long-winded recording process, offering me advice and critiques, but never in a bad way. I will certainly thank John Allison for Scary Go Round, my reading material when I can't get to work in the studio - or get the studio to work. His website addresses are listed above, and I think therefore I have given him tons of back-slap kudos.

Love always!

m_v