BLOGGER: charles s bravo
LOCATION: scottish borders
BAND: vacuum spasm babies
LABEL: shark batter records
Drummer Wanted?
This week I have been in Liverpool, London and Glasgow for work, so not a lot of time or energy for VSB related maters, although I find sleep deprivation and the hypnotic flash of the passing countryside from a train window a great catalysts for the creative process.
Liverpool is a brilliant city to visit, and we’re still hugely impressed that two presenters at BBC Radio Merseyside have played a track each from our Thin Man E.P. Dave Monks does a show called ‘The Pool’ on a Sunday night where he plays a lot of local bands (and us) and that’s followed on by their alternative music show ‘Pure Musical Sensations’ with Roger Hill. Liverpool has been voted England's most musical city in a national campaign set up by the Arts Council and part of that has to be down to the local BBC station getting behind new music.
London still stinks..
Although the E.P has been out for a while now, we’re still finding great reviews like this from Penny Black Music popping up, which is just brilliant.
http://www.pennyblackmusic.co.uk/MagSitePages/Review.aspx?id=5913
Stoneghost Mike is in New York recoding with Michi Wiancko for their Mike & Michi project, and developing the interests of the Sharkbatter label over there. Roger Simian is in Orkney after working hard to get the Kimo Michi E.P on the radio and in the press, so it’s a quiet time for Vacuum Spasm Babies.
We’re taking this opportunity to plan how we’re going to manage to play the album plus some of the new tracks we’re working on live. I’m hugely proud of the way the album sounds. It’s down to my brothers’ ability to manipulate me and our recording technology to produce something that’s not too awful or offensive to the ear. The main difficulty is that although we’ve got what I think are some great songs, when it comes down to it I’m a terrible musician and at best can only just get by as a singer. Having been sacked from one band and not played in front of anyone for about 15 years, we’re going to need some very fine people playing live with us.
So we’re lucky (and honoured) that Roger Simian and Cameron Jack (otherwise known as Sharkbatter Records stars The Stark Palace) are going to help out. Hopefully then between us we can knock a set together, play some gigs and get the money together for our next release. Somewhere in the contract there’s a line that says something about Vacuum Spasm Babies returning the favour, I imagine playing Stark Palace songs live would a riot and in terms of things to do before I’m 40 comes in quite near the top, just after arranging a lock-in with Lords Summerisle & Byron, Mrs Bravo and me.
Drummer wanted? It looks like this. Our album was never meant to be played live. I’m 35 and live in a house in the country, I’ve got responsibilities and have no business playing on a stage, and if previous experience has anything to go by, very little chance of facing an audience without the best part of a bottle of reasonably good red wine inside me. I’m not set up for that kind of trauma. But if we need to do it, we’ll do it. So as we get the four of us into a soundproofed room and start to hammer guitars in time with the drum tracks lifted off the album, hopefully it will all come together.
LOCATION: scottish borders
BAND: vacuum spasm babies
LABEL: shark batter records
Drummer Wanted?
This week I have been in Liverpool, London and Glasgow for work, so not a lot of time or energy for VSB related maters, although I find sleep deprivation and the hypnotic flash of the passing countryside from a train window a great catalysts for the creative process.
Liverpool is a brilliant city to visit, and we’re still hugely impressed that two presenters at BBC Radio Merseyside have played a track each from our Thin Man E.P. Dave Monks does a show called ‘The Pool’ on a Sunday night where he plays a lot of local bands (and us) and that’s followed on by their alternative music show ‘Pure Musical Sensations’ with Roger Hill. Liverpool has been voted England's most musical city in a national campaign set up by the Arts Council and part of that has to be down to the local BBC station getting behind new music.
London still stinks..
Although the E.P has been out for a while now, we’re still finding great reviews like this from Penny Black Music popping up, which is just brilliant.
http://www.pennyblackmusic.co.uk/MagSitePages/Review.aspx?id=5913
Stoneghost Mike is in New York recoding with Michi Wiancko for their Mike & Michi project, and developing the interests of the Sharkbatter label over there. Roger Simian is in Orkney after working hard to get the Kimo Michi E.P on the radio and in the press, so it’s a quiet time for Vacuum Spasm Babies.
We’re taking this opportunity to plan how we’re going to manage to play the album plus some of the new tracks we’re working on live. I’m hugely proud of the way the album sounds. It’s down to my brothers’ ability to manipulate me and our recording technology to produce something that’s not too awful or offensive to the ear. The main difficulty is that although we’ve got what I think are some great songs, when it comes down to it I’m a terrible musician and at best can only just get by as a singer. Having been sacked from one band and not played in front of anyone for about 15 years, we’re going to need some very fine people playing live with us.
So we’re lucky (and honoured) that Roger Simian and Cameron Jack (otherwise known as Sharkbatter Records stars The Stark Palace) are going to help out. Hopefully then between us we can knock a set together, play some gigs and get the money together for our next release. Somewhere in the contract there’s a line that says something about Vacuum Spasm Babies returning the favour, I imagine playing Stark Palace songs live would a riot and in terms of things to do before I’m 40 comes in quite near the top, just after arranging a lock-in with Lords Summerisle & Byron, Mrs Bravo and me.
Drummer wanted? It looks like this. Our album was never meant to be played live. I’m 35 and live in a house in the country, I’ve got responsibilities and have no business playing on a stage, and if previous experience has anything to go by, very little chance of facing an audience without the best part of a bottle of reasonably good red wine inside me. I’m not set up for that kind of trauma. But if we need to do it, we’ll do it. So as we get the four of us into a soundproofed room and start to hammer guitars in time with the drum tracks lifted off the album, hopefully it will all come together.
