Hello all.

So it would appear many of you are curious about the title of the new album and the tracks. Given that we are planning to take some of them out on the road with us you would think we’d have the song titles pretty-well nailed by now? Unfortunately that is not the case for the majority. We have “working” titles for all the tracks, however this is purely for the writing and rough demos that we’ve been playing with on our Macs.

At the time of writing this post I know of only one song that we have named (and which everyone has agreed with!) – but I will keep that one under my hat for now.

It will be interesting to hear your feedback once we start gigging the new songs.

As for the album title… Well we are currently using a working title of “The End of Infinity”. Again, this is still being discussed.

As always, keep smiling and keep rocking.

Chuck.

Hello!
We had a bit of a gathering yesterday and one item that was discussed was whether we should try and “air” some of the new material before we take ourselves into the recording studio.
I know we have tended to be a bit traditional and only tour the new stuff on the back of an album release, but since we have started out on the new album differently (what with the joint writing sessions and all) we thought perhaps we should break with tradition and actually try out the new stuff before it is cut to wax! It would give you, our beloved audience, a chance to here and feedback on the new stuff, and it would also give us a chance to try it out for size and see how well it plays to a live audience.

With that in mind, we are in discussion with a handful of our favourite venues, to see if we can squeeze out a few live dates sometime in April. No details yet, so stay tuned to here and our other social media outlets for details.

Until then, keep it real people.

Chuck

Hello
Well, we are fast approaching the end of our holiday writing break. Zane, Johnny, Dave and Jesus are heading home today. The rest of us are flying back at the end of the week.

We have 14 songs in the can so-to-speak, and another 3 or 4 that we like enough not to have binned. Tobes has uploaded the relevant files from his Mac to our cloud service (just in case his Mac goes the way of our own one!), and Randy has even gone as far as to provisionally book some time in a recording studio to get the whole thing moving forward!

I think we have all found these last four weeks or so to have been very invigorating, exciting, and productive. And it has been an absolute crack and a riot.

All that is left for us to do now is to dispose of the bodies empties, burn all the waste paper (they may be reject song ideas, but don’t want anyone else taking a peak into our madcap creativity), and pay the outstanding bills (food, bar and accommodation).

I’m taking a short break when I get back to the UK. If I remember, I will prod one of the others to write up some blurb of their own on their thoughts on this session.

Until then, keep smiling.

Chuck

Greetings one-and-all.

Our week has taken a dramatic turn for the best with the arrival of the Pit Vipers: Toby Jones and Chesney Harrison. Not only have they arrived with extra supplies and ideas, but they’re also armed with not one but two battle-scarred MacBook Pro’s. The guys are demons with both Garage Band and ProTools, and so we will embark to laying down some of the ideas for the songs being developed this week with renewed gusto!

In other news, a reconnaissance trip out by Zane, Nancy and Dave, has uncovered a new restaurant to try out and also a music store! Oh joy of joys my Bass has now been restored to its 5-string glory.

Regards

Chuck

Hello and Happy Valentines’ Day to you all!

Week three draws to a close. We now have 7 songs in the bag, 2 more nearly done, and a further 4 that are showing promise. The mid-week MacBook crash has not dampened our spirits too much (thank heavens for cloud backups), but it does mean we no longer have Garage Band to use to capture the bare essentials for the music.

Our waste basket is now brimming with crumpled paper; yesterday we caught Nancy going through it claiming that she had “thrown away the best song ever written”. We let her carry on but no epic was forthcoming from her.

In other news, we have now been joined by Zane Clarke, complete with the shiniest Saxophone ever seen. We’re not sure we will actually need a sax on the new album, but the evening jam sessions have now taken on a whole new dimension (and he appears to be a big attraction with the local lay-dees ).

What else have we learnt so far?
* You can never pack enough spare strings! My Bass is now down to just 3

That’s all folks. Peace, love and happiness to you all.

Chuck

Hello world!

Well we are almost at the end of our second week of “writing” sessions. We have 3 songs that we are all happy with, 2 of which we have even bottomed-out most of the music for too. It’s helped immensely that the jam sessions have been very productive (and constructive). There are another half-dozen or so songs where we have a good idea of where they are going lyrically, and just need a bit more refinement and work.

What have we learnt so far?
* Both Randy and I appear to have mastered Garage Band.
* Jesus and Nancy use the same make of plectrums!
* Raving’s shorthand is unintelligible to anyone, including himself! (I wonder just how many songs have we lost?).
* LGS cannot take his beer (we knew that anyway), but can hold his own in rum-drinking, even against the mighty Johnny Westinghouse!

Short, but sweet! I’ll provide more updates (and perhaps some more gossip) in a week’s time.

Keep smiling, keep rockin’

Chuck.

Well here we all are. Somewhere warm, sunny, and away from prying eyes (and ears). Alongside me we have Randy, LGS, Jesus, Raving, Dave and Nancy. Dropping in on us over the next week or so we also have Zane and Mister Johnny Westinghouse, and there is rumour abound that Tobes and Chesney from the Pit Vipers will be joining us too. I just hope we’ve booked in enough beer and writing paper!

Let’s make some music!

Cheers

Chuck