We just finished recording our second record with producer extraordinaire Ian Blurton and now have sent it to him in Toronto for him to mix it. We had an awesome recording blitz experience with Blurton during our weekend "band camp" at the Meatlocker in mid-april. It took us a day and a half to put down the beds, then the rest fell into place. Julia sang for about 4 hours straight on the last day and thankfully did not lose her voice. We then spent the last 2 months putting the extra guitar, Yogi and JP's vocals and cleaning things up. Our good friend Dan Watchorn from Priestess came in as well to lay down a vocal track in a duet with Julia. The song was written with his voice in mind and it turned out perfectly!
Highlights included:
Blurton worked hard as some of us (JP and Yogi) watched.
We had an Oboe player come in and laid down a tracks, as well as Tom Thomson, pedal steel guitar player who laid down some killer tracks on three of the songs.
Drunken times and delicious food were had. The last night Yogi and Julia disappeared sober upstairs to kitchen to leave Blurton to work alone but returned to the studio an hour later drunk. Julia decided to molest the mannequin as Blurton worked.
"I knew there was stuff going on behind me, but I was too afraid to turn around" Ian Blurton.
The Ottawa Citizen newspaper came by to take a picture of us on the second day. You can see the article and our hung over glows here:
Now that the record is done and sent for Blurton to mix, we are working on playing tonnes of shows and hopefully finding a record label to help us release the record.
For now we are playing:
August 28, 2009 in Toronto, Ontario at The Dakota Tavern with our friends The Mercy Now and Starvin' Hungry and then the next night August 29th at The Dominion Tavern in Ottawa, Ontario.
See you there!
