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Mr Wizard said we've been doing this for 16 years and I went naaah. Do the math, we started recording 'Whiskey Talkin' in 2007 that's....that's...one, two...um...let's see 2017 would have been 10 years, so...OH NO.

This whole COVID thing sure did compress 3 years there. Coulda sworn it was only 12...How fortunate we have been to get to do this as long as we have. Wow.

And we're still at it. The greenhouse project is running at 26 possible tracks. How many will actually survive the process is yet to be determined. It's good to be working, it's good to be playing shows. 16 years huh? wow.

That means 15 years of this blog. Heh. Oh well can't sit here typing, I'm still mixing. One day we might wind up back in a studio for 100% of the production process. Not today. Best part is that we can start bringing new songs into the set. Huzzah!

One day, I will be given the correct start times.

Not recently tho..fixed.

My blogging has slowed down for the last while because I am mixing. Long gone are the days when I would swan around at the back of the studio, having peeled grapes handed to me by the Sisters of Expense Account Lunches.

No, in these days of musical Austerity, I am in the salt mines of the digital audio workspace, clicking buttons until I need an icepack. Actually I changed my workspace angle to reduce that but still...

Greenhouse project is moving. I wrote up a discography the other day that discussed how each of the processes that led to an album, shaped it, but it was too spicy. Maybe later.

Meanwhile I have 10 tracks on the editing bench adding vocals. Which I am still writing. Plus what's still growing. We're taking advantage of the new world order of how you make music. Means less musing and more work.

This is the first time I have been written 'across' songs, rather than in a semi consecutive fashion. This is a new way or working, adding a little to each one as I go.

We're aiming to keep this collection low key, I guess in reaction to the depth and detail of 'Signposts'.

Without being able to formulate a Due By date, I can certainly say there's progress and this is another first, in an ongoing series of firsts, in how we make stuff. 

Did you know that 'Defiance' was the only album we ever made where everything went easily in the production process? Yeah the discography brought home to me how often things have gone wrong and that our reaction has been to create stuff anyway, as best we can. I kinda wanna tell you more about this stuff but nah...I have guides to listen to an adjust. More to come when the opportunity presents itself.

Remember that whole backlog thing I mentioned? Yeah well.

Theo went through the greenhouse and picked out 10 items ready for drum tracks.

The whole self recording/mixing thing sort of works like this - Theo's better off in the studio with Ben, delivering him drum sticks on a velvet pillow than in the backyard here with a brolly over his head while the lawn mowers whizz by.

Meanwhile, for the Plebs, it's an SM58 and a line in. Mind you, free coffee and I can wear comfy pants.

Taking advantage of modern tech would make Prince totally stoked. The speed with which you can get stuff out is just amazing.

Besides which, we have to keep up with our mate Space Engineer!

We just released Signposts in Nov, singles already, plus I am aiming to put all that unplugged stuff on an EP cos even tho it's pretty it's also...pretty bloody depressing subject matter and I am feeling much more cheerful.

So...that means there are 10 candidates to be fertilised with Percussion. That means we are realistically looking at another album....sooner or later :P

Good times, good times.