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FOTS-POD#18 – “The No-Robson Club: Part 1″ 0
Episode 18 of the Friends of the Stars Podcast is a PART ONE of TWO PART affair. Recorded just last week in the fine city of Glasgow, these episodes DO NOT feature Executive Producer Robson.
Wait….come back.
Containing tunes by David Bowie, Magnetic Fields, Kevin Ayers and Elvis Costello, “The No-Robson Club” finds Friends of the Stars members Campbell and Craig spending the afternoon idly considering exactly how many copies of their next album the band need to sell in order for all 5 members to live high on the hog. They also discuss the difficulties of having family and… Read the rest
Categories: Apropos of Nowt,Music,podcast,Promotion,The 2nd Album
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New Songs For A New Record: Lights Go Out 0
Here’s another demo from the pile of songs we’re sifting through and recording for the new album, “Faiths Meat Kiosk”. This is one of Cam’s and is called Lights Go Out.
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When it appears on the LP it’ll be a little different from this version. For a start we think that Anna will be singing it rather than Cam and also the piano you hear on this version is being played by Cam, but for the recording proper we’ll be bringing in a crack squad of additional musicians. More news on this soon…
Enjoy…
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Recording and The Lurgy 0
Apologies for the weeklong radio silence, I’ve been poorly.
At the height of my illness I told an American friend that I had been laid low by ‘the lurgy’ and she had absolutely no idea what I was talking about. She was, like, clueless. So, we totally checked Wikipedia and it seems that the word Lurgi (correct spelling) was made-up by Spike Milligan in the 1950s for The Goon Show and passed into common parlance (in the UK only, it seems) shortly afterwards. Every day is a school day.
Anyway.
Last Saturday we finally made a proper start to the 2nd Record. We travelled to… Read the rest
Categories: Apropos of Nowt,Collaboration,The 2nd Album
News Songs for a New Album: Bubble of Hate 0
Here’s another demo from the 2nd album, Faith’s Meat Kiosk. This one is called “Bubble of Hate”.
It started life as a slightly faster tune, but after a suggestion from Cam is was slowed down and stripped back to what your can hear now. We’ll probably keep the arrangements reasonably simple when we come to recording it for the album, sticking with the sparse nature of this recording done around one mike in a single take by Anna and Craig.
Listen:
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We head off to Shrewsbury next weekend to begin recording, … Read the rest
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9 Mistakes To Avoid When Recording Your Own Album 3
Today was a good day. I finally began to work on our next record.
It’s been almost 18 months since we were last recording anything intended for release. That’s a long time. One of the reasons for this was that I figured we needed to place an embargo on any new recordings until “Lighting and Electrical” was finished and available to anyone in the world who might want to hear it. I knew from experience that if we had started recording new material before that point then the songs would have joined that pile of other songs that we never got finished, and… Read the rest
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