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Due to overwhelming popular demand, we present another installment of TA LYNDON vs Reality.

This episode, Terry sings for us.

WOOT! We're opening up the Byron Crossroads Festival in Illinois later this year, just got the call.

It's still 5 months off, but, woohoo!

More info soon!

What kind of lunatic fringe maniacs spend all night on a one and a half minute song?

if you've just joined the conversation, then you might puzzle over that question.

For regular readers, you know perfectly well who's likely to do that.

Yep, that'd be us.

What a fun night.

It started with appropriate omens above the studio

Inside, we were gearing up for what we thought would be a simple single mike acoustic guitar and vocal piece, with maybe some minimal percussion.

Ok so we got through that and then opted to try a second version with more stuff.

Like a big-ass Marshall stack for some ambient slide guitar

Oh, I know, let's add the Kit and an additional Floor Tom overdub

Oh and some pink bass

Plus some harp (the Lesley organ effect was weird so we ditched it), some additional harmonies and another acoustic guitar.

So that's now brought the song up to 1:40.

Cheers to Richard for getting it all together. We'll mix it next week. Tick off another song on the list for The Curious Assembly.

Turns out it's been way too long in 'Cellar terms between albums and we've been pushing to get The Curious Assembly completed.

We initially were thinking of it as an EP. Oh but i get ahead of myself. Lets go back to when we were thinking of future projects after the completion of  Hired Guns.

There was a concept floating around of putting together a rowdy little EP of nothing but raucous 70's blues rock, as if recorded at a biker clubhouse full of drunken yahoos, where we would play not one single 'nice' sweet song. 

The concept had a working title of 'F--- Yeah' (I know, I know it wouldn't have passed marketing and besides which, Green Day beat us to it) and in fact the project got hung up on the name.

By the time we'd agreed that 'Hell yeah' was better (wusses), we'd written material to suit - 'Give me something I want' was perfect for that concept, 'Over yonder' (the boogie) was ready, we could stick 'dirty work' on there...and then...we wrote Sweet Adeline.

Oh crap. It's....nice.

Ok, still no problem, it's only one out of kilter song, we can put it aside and then follow up with..

Onward Traveler.

Right.

And Traveling Song.

(sigh)

Somewhere during this process, the project became a curious assembly of songs. You can see how we come up with titles. Rocket science it ain't.

By the time Twice Shy Girl came along our song writing had scattered into quantum uncertainty and all sorts of stuff started popping out. Curiouser and Curiouser.

We got back from the US tour and had some more nice Blues-y Stuff, such as Downwards Bound and Low Low, which we immediately followed up on with Queen Above The Ocean (Colonial Folk)

About a month ago we decided we really wanted to get this thing finished - we'd been releasing the tracks  individually as singles, as soon as they'd been mastered, but a full CD is still the preferred medium for most of the local DJ's (go figure) and not being ones to waste plastic, Mr Wizard called for a full album. Costs the same to press a full album as a single.

Ok smarty pants, we've only got 9 songs ready, what do you..

oh.

Ok so now we have 14 ready.

Oh.

This was meant to be an EP.

(sigh)

Fortunately, to our great delight, the new and unexpected songs are even more fun than the old fun songs. Now that's curious.

So to that end, we are embarking up the great Finishing-ening.

Est.

Yes, the great finishinginenggest, a concerted effort to Get This (EXPLETIVE DELETED) Thing Done.

This week we have 2 recording sessions scheduled, one for Cry for You and one for QATO. We're keeping the pressure on to get the next lot recorded.

Also, we're getting the final mix of Travelling Song out this week, so we're just powering away here.

All that's left to do is: GMSIW, LL, DB, LG, STTB, SSO, and maybe a reprise of Can't Tax Love (Theo wants to) and a new one working titled 'TF' so thats only 8 more to go. Maybe. Ah I just recounted. that's 9.

IT WAS MEANT TO BE AN EP!!!! AN EP!!!!

(little voice in my head reminds me, yeah, that's what you said about 'Carl's Chair' and lookit where that got you'

Damn the torpedoes sir, full steam ahead!

UPDATE: we're kicking off at 7pm now instead of 8.

Once more we return

to Oberon

for sport

and pleasures

acoustic

err no, not that Oberon, this one

Err...ok, that might be slightly out of date

Mayfield garden near Oberon. Pretty innit?

With luck we may even be joined by some special guests!

Sat night from 8:30,   7pm Oberon RSL, main street of Oberon (there's only the one kids you wont get lost) Free entry.