Day 1 - The sound of London's riverbanks

So today we set out in search of that elusive "sound", if this was some kind of indie film then there'd be a cardboard set with all of us represented by different animals in stop motion animation. The animals would travel the globe (a giant orange of sorts) attempting to discover the sound only to realise that all of their findings alone didn't cut it but when combined they created the perfect combination. This ain't no indie film and finding a sound is boring. Doug began his day confronted with 3 bass drums, at first he was delighted but soon remembered he only had 2 legs.

Soon after Jamie wheelied up on his bike, threw it in the river and, before we could blink, had his guitar on and was wailing away.

 

By this point we were hungry, so we went to the standard of every wharf in the world; an American style diner. That's right, instead of a classy Come Dine With Me competition, this time we're eating burger and chips and drinking milkshake EVERY DAY. When we got back, Oz (our producer extraordinaire) discovered this little gem on the mixing desk:

That's right friends, "Telephone effects". And we'd found our sound. Imagine phoning your mum, only to have her blurt out some mathy folk rock into your ear. Or imagine you buy our album and it's just a conversation with your mum. Neither will happen don't worry. We started tracking some stuff down, for the music tech geeks we plugged the guitars straight into the desk and are going to amp the recorded sound at a later date. I'm assured there are good reasons for doing this. 

We got 3 tracks done and one of them is the nastiest of the lot so we were pretty chuffed. As the tide came in and the boat started bobbing about we came back home to write blogs and eat crisps. 

Better stories tomorrow.

Bencat and the crabs x