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We've been too busy doing stuff to make it happen to talk about it, but you know we're serious when the Art Starts

Stormcellar return once more to the mid west of the United States Of America, late summer. 

Howdy Folks.

We did some pre-production planning for SC9 today and I recounted and realised there are 15 contenders.

Songs with * are ones we did on SC8 but now we want to do a 'proper studio' version.

SC9 contenders

Chalk Angels*

Chase The Dragon (brand new, unperformed)

Hard Rock &  a good time

Heavy Weather

Hey Child*

Isn't how I wanted it

Julie

Like a stone

Mama don't mind

Nobody knows better*

Stopping By

How it feels to win (brand new, performed twice, survived Frankies!)

Better Off without you (already recorded and released as a single)

Return of the king (already recorded as a single for the AWE Wrestling Championships, but maybe we re do it).

If you don't recognise any of these songs, it's been too long since you've been out to visit with us :-)

Some, none or all of these songs may be on the next recording.

Come to a live gig and find out which ones have what it takes.

Speaking of which I'd better update the lyric pages.

VOTING IS COMPULSORY IN AUSTRALIA!

Attending our gig is not :-)

But if you'd like to cleanse your palate after exercising your democratic rights, come join us. Fettler is coming! YAY! Twyce Daly is opening for us and reprising his run of awesome coast shows. It'll be a sterling night. vote with your feet!

The greens, the entrance, sat 2 july, from 8:30, free, like our country is and beer could be, if we only believe!

The Stormcellar Love-Nado strikes again.

On Thursday night, Bucko was outside at Frankies at half time and yep, he met someone at our previous Townie gig and now they've hooked up.

Proof.  

Way to go Bucko.

Regular cellar dwellers know that this sort of thing happens at our shows. It's almost a Shamanic Power!!

It actually kind of blew my mind.

When you stop to think about it, our shows have created commonly shared positive emotional experiences between people who had never met.

They've hooked up and even gotten married and had kids too!

We have reports!

Oh crap, that makes me realise we've been going for long enough now as a band that early Cellar Dweller Offspring have entered into grade school...hmmm...

Shared experiences are Muy Importante!

Live music can do that. Go to a gig. Anyone's gig. You might get lucky! Like bucko!

Also Bill played a badass bass solo again. 

Cheers to Diego on sound. Come out to a gig and get you a slice of this huh? Lol.

Woot!

Howdy Folks. It's been a time, I tell you. I've been helping some folks dear to me and it's occupied my attention somewhat.

As is the way with such things, the songs have continued to accumulate in the interim and I came back to find 11 guide tracks for SC9 are up there.

Depending on what happens with SC8, we might re-record alternate/replacement versions of a few unreleased tracks so does that mean we're ready to go?

Hmm.

Thus, depending on how you count and some other factors, we are:

In need of more songs!

Not in need of more songs!

Making songs anyway!

The Fall of Troy

We spent our last night at Troy Horse working on new songs.

Troy is closing, the times they are a changing. Love ya Chrisso.

Rehearsal studios are vital. 

Here's why:

Some songwriting ideas never make it, thankfully they fail expertly and swiftly.

Some bad ideas need time to brew into their OMG-what-was-I-thinking-state.

Some songwriting ideas start bad and then ripen into Blue Cheese Stinky Awesomeness (BTW yuck).

Yes that's right, I am comparing songwriting to stinky cheese. You heard it here first.

But it's necessary to be prepared to Fail toward victory!

Rehearsal studios give you a place to take the song once you think you've got it right and try it out without the risk of being pelted with pretzels at a bar.

(That's the phase you get to IF it survives full electric rehearsal.)

Besides which, Theo likes to work on his drum action with a full kit :-)

Troy Horse has been our go-to place once a song is ready to come out of the test tube.

We'll miss the space that Chris created. The Headspace he created. We did some of our very best writing there. I mean re-writing.

Chris approved of us riding the Troy Horse one last time, working on brand new songs with the liberty to fail towards vicotry. 

I mean Victory.

Here we are, once again, taking risks, one last time, at Troy Horse.

Giddy up.