Recording Diary - Day 163/164

The Loungs were happy that they had decided to record in St.Helens as the early morning walks gave them a chance to reflect on the day ahead.

Ssssooooo we cheated a bit.

For the past few weeks we have using any spare time we have had between working, drinking and designing space shuttles to record little odds and sods for the album and endeavour to make it sound a mighty beast rather than a cheeky rodent.

The past two days have been a culmination of this as we transferred all our parts from PTL's recording desk of first flush kissing to Andy Bowes' mighty recording desk of sweet and tender lovemaking. As well as this we have recorded all the little bits that we had forgotten about until we got the preliminary recordings of the album on our ipods/cd players/8 tracks last month. There were plenty of these little blighters and it was not a task that we were looking forward to be it entire parts of songs that we are not used to playing live or a single word inserted where the sun don't shine. A list was drawn up and we set to work yesterday dotting a few I's.

Today however everything fell into place finally (apart from Jamie who is'nt very well at all) and we all came away feeling that we are getting to the point where the album is sounding like it does in our heads. Minus the bum notes of course.

In a week or two we will finally have our Bolton string quartet down and they will be filling out a few songs with their lovely arrangements. Around this time we should be grinning like extremely happy cats and it should hopefully spell the end of our first album recording experience and we can start looking into other potential minefields such as artwork, tracklistings and the like.

Then we can finally start thinking about album number two....