It’s been a while since I have talked and shared my thoughts and simply there’s no excuse other than the fact that we’ve been mental flat out busy! I am going to try and get this old girl of a blog back up to date over the next few days so what better way to start than with the RDU round up band competition.
Round up has been a cornerstone in the Christchurch music industry for years now. James and the RDU gang are doing a great job of growing this competition and this year was perfect testament to that. The entries I managed to see all created that sexy little buzz for me.
Jump ahead to the end of the competition and we were staring down the barrel of a loaded finals bazooka. ‘The Unfaithful Ways‘ played their best show of the year, The Burning sensations of course always strong with chch and SoulSystem ending the evening with their highly infectious danceable beats. But of course as we all know it was the newly formed ‘Sleepy Age’ that took the title.
The very next day they were in to The Sitting Room recording studios to lay their first single ‘Cat face’. We only had the day to get the song tracked and mixed so it as all guns blazing. It’s always a hard ask to get a band into the recording studio, meet the people, form those relationships, set up the gear, get the best from the band and try make it all happen in such a short space of time. Personalities and relationships is the only thing that will get you through the day, and luckily in this case the band is full of awesome dudes, simple.
I thoroughly enjoyed meeting and working with these guys, and with some great heritage in the ranks from the likes of ‘bang bang eche’, ‘Neil Robinson’ and ‘The insurgents’ this band is surely going to get some attention.
The first singe is a cute little song, and we’re all looking forward to having them back into the studio…. and it’s always nice to have the band genuinely say at the end of sessions things like: ‘Wow, thanks so much, this was the best time I’ve ever had recording. You guys easily have the best studio in Christchurch’
awwww… shucks… thanks… I completely disagree.. but thanks.