Courtyard / Warehouse

Why hello there! Haven't I seen you before? Really? Okay. My mistake.

So, tomorrow we head into Studio No.1 (Warehouse) to record our rehash of a Radiohead track. Covering Radiohead is usually considered on a par with spitting at a crucifix, but we were lucky enough to be asked, along with some other awesome Oxford bands (the likes of Ute and Stornoway) by Tim Bearder and Dave Gilyeat of BBC Oxford to take part in a 15 year commemoration of The Bends album. For Children in Need, you see.

We have tried to dirty the record with our fingerprints, and hopefully give it a spattering of our sound. Johnny, a friend of ours from Fervours (www.myspace.com/fervours) was a really great help and helped us to try and root the track with a sort of In Rainbows vibe: if Radiohead were to have written it now, kinda thing. Oh, i forget to mention, the track is Bones by the way. I have begun to warm to the original too. I have never been the biggest Radiohead fan. Don't get me wrong, they are talented, creative, at once accessible and violently inventive, but it has never really been my kind of thing.

THEN on Monday comes the biggie, where we are going to Courtyard Studios outside of Oxford, where the likes of the mighty Radiohead, Band of Skulls, Supergrass, Badly Drawn Boy have recorded, to lay down our 7-track mini-album called Pull Us Apart. Sick. We are there for 11 days: sleeping, eating, recording, smoking. We have a two day break in the middle, where we are mixing Bones back at Warehouse. Its fairly wonderfully non-stop.

Excitement and fear has kicked in already. I can't wait. The main question in my head is, 'is this record any good?'. Well, i hope so. I believe so. And there is not much we can do about it now anyway. Also, 'will we kill each other before we finish?'.

This should be a pretty incredible few weeks. We will be uploading photos / videos / whatever else one can upload.

Anywho, i better save cyber space.

Matt x