I knew it was a sad one, but as I sit here on the sofa in the control room, I am listening to Lukas playing some beautiful bowed double-bass over the guitar and vocal tracks, and I think we are all on the verge of going home and ending it all. The track in question is ‘Bones’ - you have been warned. Don’t listen to it if you’re having a bad day; it might just tip you over the edge. Lukas has now finished the second take of the bass track and says he no longer has ‘the strength to go on’, Matt claims to have shed a tear, I feel depressed, and Barnaby is just fine - but he’s the toughest of cookies.
On a more cheerful note, as I type Matt’s name, I realise you may not know who he is. Known as
‘Mattwise’ among friends, and ‘Matt Thomas’ professionally, he has joined us in the studio for
the last few days to capture some footage of the sessions. You may have noticed in some of the recent studio photographs some lighting equipment and camera stands – that’s all Matt’s kit. He’s been filming with a view to making a promotional video for the album, to be released in a few months' time. He also filmed Lukas and I during a double bass rehearsal of ‘Nicotine’ on an iPhone, which I will post here soon. Check out Matt's page here: Matt Thomas Film.
Tomorrow we’ll be recording the final drum tracks. Lunch has been a pasty three times in a row now, and the jeans are definitely tightening. Probably time to break out the salad, I reckon. Boring.
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