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We've unexpectedly passed another milestone today as the first complete set of mixes for all 13 songs emerged from this afternoons session.

Mr Wizard got his dates wrong, Theo was unavailable and Rosie didn't think he'd make the brief review session we envisaged, leaving it to yours truly and Pete to do the final tweaks. MUAHAHAHA!!!! Feel the Power! Now I can add in all the secret accordion solo's I have been planning.

Or not.

Great! So where does this leave us? Well, we have scheduled a Drum and Percussion review day for Theo, and in the interim we'll all be listening to the initial mixes and making yet more notes. Pete will be doing the same.

That means we wont be finished next week, but thereafter? It's anyone's guess.

Hooray, we're getting closer!

When we last left our intrepid heroes, they were taking a break whilst Pete went to Splendor.

For it was written, in my diary, that upon the return of the Pete, yea verily shall we recommence doing 'stuff' and that we would also maybe get some of those nice sandwiches at the food court at lunchtime and maybe have a coffee. So it was foretold and so it came to be. 

Oh yeah and I got to read that Syd Barrett bio some more whilst Rosie was doing Solo changes for Black Crow.

11/13 now mixed, fixes and changes made, new vocal approaches tried for Suit Yourself and Light in the Distance,  a bit of work on the harp stuff for Even in a Lifetime and some other...stuff.

I've been listening to the updated versions of Black Crow and Texas Rosie and the stuff is sounding more polished. Polished is a good analogy, as we mix, we're starting to reveal the layers of the song.

We have another session scheduled this week and I can foresee a few more to go after that, but not so many. The end approacheth! 

Howdy Folks.

What? I'm sorry you'll have to speak up, there was an arms race on last night between the band and the disco party in the room downstairs. I think they won :-)

The first residency at the Taverners Hill Hotel kicked off in fine style last night and saw the return of the blinking lights. Not so many this time. I remarked that the last time I had used a few more, Rosie quipped that a few more was actually  'all of them'.

Still, I think we had a better balance of effects last night. 

 Cheers to Ross, Dale, Claudette, Michael, Assan, Big Daddy and all the folks that spent the evening with us, especially the 21st birthday party downstairs.

I was trying to work out who was playing music every time we stopped a song. Weren't we meant to finish? What was going on with the rhythm? Then it dawned on me that the music I was hearing was coming from...somewhere else. I had thought someones ringtone was playing incessantly, but no, it was the Doof Doof coming up the stairs.  God Bless the Doofsters, I hope they had ear protection, I am a fan of having my internal organs shaken by the sound system from 30 metres, but I take the precaution of wearing earplugs. When the Doof from Downstairs outpaces the drums that are immediately behind you, it's probably quite loud. Next week I'll add further commentary on dance music in a new section entitled 'Get off my lawn'.

The THH is a great little pub and we're looking forward to our return.

I understand our local production hire place also does Bass Sub Woofers. Lots of Bass Subwoofers. Big Ones.

We shall see who has the last Doof!!

Aha!

:-)

I put this up on F/Book to see if people could be creative to say what they think the Grub is saying to the Birds ,So all you Stormcellar Fans it's up to you ? Go to comments please !