Studio day 3

Guitars still need sorting, this took most of the day. vocal o'clock was 6pm, so with took 3 days to just record the tracks looks like we're going to need at least another day for mixing this beast.

Studio Day 2

They clearly weren't going to need vocals laying down today (tonight is a possibility..) so decided to come to work and earn some money today, the others hopefully busy beavering away on getting the guitars nailed. we've only got today to record the rest of our stuff, so we'll see what happens. Tomorrow we need the day for mixing, and the tracks need to be with the label for mid-week, so fingers are crossed..

Studio Day 1

A 10am start, drums set up and then the arduous task of nailing these drum parts...a blast part in ZvA proved to be the only major issue, but this was finally sorted and..day 1 was all drum. I left for Leeds at 6:30pm, the others left with the all-nighter of sifting through the drum takes and sounds to do whatever it is they do. The only other thing worth mentioning are the spectacular buys from the local 99p shop - jases flat ain't ever seen so much crap! Can't wait to get back there & watch Transmorphers..

Studio -1

Last night was great, Danny's fully nailed the NewNew song so I got a video of the new ending part (an extra minute+ of music!), put it to cassette when I got home and had one last blast of Repeat Play brainwashing. New ending = King Crimson meets Messugha!

Spent my last day gathering supplies to help the throat during these taxing few days, then headed across to Barnsley by train in the eve for a last practice. Vocalised my lyrics over the new song for the first time, was super easy so confidence was further boosted and nothing like the anxious mess I was going into the studio last time!
Only a short practice, danny & calvin disappeared into the night, and me, theo and jase chilled with a Nicholas Cage film..tomorrow we drum.

Studio -2

The lads finished learning the new one last night, slapped in some crazy riff at the end and connected it to the other new one we're recording, ZvA (for the sake of 7" continuity, but am thinking it might be a cool way to kick off the set..). Tonight I'm across to Barnsley for my first practice of this new one, same again Saturday then we hit it with Jase and the mixing desk on Sunday/Monday/Tuesday.

I'm fairly happy with the lyrics, both content and placements, so we all seem to be on the same page of thinking these are going to be our best songs yet..our side of this 7" is gonna be fucking Rad.

Studio updates next I guess...exciting times!

- Steve

[update:leeds just got snowey-as-shit, hopefully we're still on for praco tonight..gonna get a video of our first run-through of the new song, should be interesting!]

Meeeeeeerry New Year.

So we're into the studio again in 4 days. Being laid down are Zanussi vs Ant and an as-yet-unnamed. We've got 3 days, so hopefully this'll be enough time and this time next week we'll have 2 new recorded efforts. we've had ZvA ready to record for a while, and i've already demo'd the vocals, so am fairly confident with this one (aside from theo and calvin wanting to change a few riffs..), but the other...the other is like a tazmanian devil (the cartoon version) - small, ferocious and very fast. all lyrics are placed for this one, but we've not had a chance to demo it yet, and theo wants to add another part to it so I guess we'll see what the hell happens.

we've only got one gig coming up, an alldayer at The Well (leeds) on Sat 29th Jan. It's a benefit for a cancer charity I think, our friend Paul from Curses is hooking it up, so hopefully it'll be a fun busy one and we can get some money for a good cause. but yeah, that gig aside, Nothing. so if you're reading this and fancy seeing us, bug whoever it is who books gigs in your town, we wanna play Everywhere!

Nothing else sorted yet - hopefully when we're all together in the studio I can nail the other guys down to dates they can tour, and we can get something booked for maybe the Easter break, and I need to get on with screening more shirts, but we don't have anything else on the cards...we've still got limited number of the CDr version of our EP, get in touch if you need a copy (antaresbanduk@gmail.com)

And that's pretty much it..so in closing, expect new songs soon, big news on the release soon after, shirts and CDr requests to the email address, and gig offers are most definitely wanted.

- Steve

The Weather Outside is Frightful..

December's here and things done got crazy-hectic! I'm back to Cardiff twice this month, our Danny is moving house, Theo will no doubt be down South for Xmas, we've got Zanussi Versus Ant to record Immediately, a new song to learn and get recorded and a bass player to get trained up in the subtle arts of antares.

And the Holy Roar 3" CD release of our l'esprit de l'escalier EP has sold out...was only 100, so no biggie, but still. Think we might try get the EP online for free download shortly, but that's several discussions away. We've got CDr copies still, and these will always be available to curious parties, but these aren't available as conveniently as our Holy Roar version..gizza shout if you want one though.

In other news, Theos other band (Cyvoid) should hopefully have a rad release out on a rad label and are continuing to slay-the-fuck out of the select few Leeds audiences who've been privy to their live outbursts - the Saviours gig last week was Sick!

2011 needs to be a year of many gigs, it's fully dumb at the moment just not playing gigs. Hopefully with a few new songs next year we'll be wanting to hustle for more gigs a bit more.

- Steve.