Tuesday, November 22, 2005
Dimanche Blanc
The new White Sunday CD is ready! I'm just waiting for the artwork before sending it all off to nice Mr. CD Mule (www.thecdmule.co.uk) to get a run pressed up. Having heard it at various stages of writing, rehearsing, recording and mixing I think I became slightly immune to it, or it lost meaning or something (try saying the same word over and over again for 2 mins for a similar and entirely comparable effect) but I finally managed to "listen" to it last night, and I'm happy to announce that it is probably the best thing in the world, ever. We're gonna get the tracks up on arkade.com as soon as possible, and we have photo shoots, etc. lined up to back up the new CD so it's all a bit hectic but great fun generally.
I was originally going to write in length and detail about how amazed and happy I was with the new recordings, but I didn’t want to get all gushing, etc. Of course I would be happy with it - even if I wasn't, I wouldn’t come on here and throw my rattles out of my pram - but after all the time, effort, expense, energy, stress and general bloody-mindedness needed to get to this stage, I had to listen to the music that we created and ask myself "is this worth it?". Yes, it is. Definitely; without question. Even if no-one outside of the band likes it, even if every critic in the world derided it, denounced it, ridiculed the four songs and us as a band, I wouldn't care a jot because when I listened to the CD last night I felt a sense of peace and assurity that I hadn't felt.. since the last CD (White Sunday or Müf) was done, really. Everything is worth it, anything would be worth it, I don’t care - if I get to keep being a part of making music as beautiful as these tracks, sign me up. My parts are all groovy, tasteful and slick (i.e. no fret-wankery beyond the limits of good taste) and are completely lost within the whole as far as I'm concerned. Mike's guitar is perfect (as is his piano playing, the talented little scrote), Jim's lyrics and singing is the star of the show - as it should be; Dan's drumming is concussive and his all round musicality has permeated all of the tracks in one way or another (as well as doing all the recording, engineering, production and mastering! He's like a Swiss Army Musician, an attachment for pretty much everything a band could need!). And Luke? Well, he's holding his own with the rest of us and probably deserves the most credit for it as he's worked the hardest over the last 10 months out of all of us.
I don’t know if it's the result of the hardwork that makes it all worthwhile, or whether working hard is the reward in itself but one way or t'other it'll be the way forward. It's wonderful to belong, even better to find a place.
I was originally going to write in length and detail about how amazed and happy I was with the new recordings, but I didn’t want to get all gushing, etc. Of course I would be happy with it - even if I wasn't, I wouldn’t come on here and throw my rattles out of my pram - but after all the time, effort, expense, energy, stress and general bloody-mindedness needed to get to this stage, I had to listen to the music that we created and ask myself "is this worth it?". Yes, it is. Definitely; without question. Even if no-one outside of the band likes it, even if every critic in the world derided it, denounced it, ridiculed the four songs and us as a band, I wouldn't care a jot because when I listened to the CD last night I felt a sense of peace and assurity that I hadn't felt.. since the last CD (White Sunday or Müf) was done, really. Everything is worth it, anything would be worth it, I don’t care - if I get to keep being a part of making music as beautiful as these tracks, sign me up. My parts are all groovy, tasteful and slick (i.e. no fret-wankery beyond the limits of good taste) and are completely lost within the whole as far as I'm concerned. Mike's guitar is perfect (as is his piano playing, the talented little scrote), Jim's lyrics and singing is the star of the show - as it should be; Dan's drumming is concussive and his all round musicality has permeated all of the tracks in one way or another (as well as doing all the recording, engineering, production and mastering! He's like a Swiss Army Musician, an attachment for pretty much everything a band could need!). And Luke? Well, he's holding his own with the rest of us and probably deserves the most credit for it as he's worked the hardest over the last 10 months out of all of us.
I don’t know if it's the result of the hardwork that makes it all worthwhile, or whether working hard is the reward in itself but one way or t'other it'll be the way forward. It's wonderful to belong, even better to find a place.
# posted by AK @ 15:38 
