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Relaxing Times With Pine

February 23, 2010

Pine are in the studio right now. It’s hot, the music is warm, the beers are cold and listening with your eyes closed still looks gay.
Good times.

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Musical Numbsculls

January 18, 2010

I guess one of the occupational hazards of owning a recording studio is the feeling of numbness when it comes to music. I try and keep what I listen to fresh but, inevitably, it doesn’t always happen. If fact, at the end of last year, I was feeling particularly jaded and uninspired – not a [...]

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The Unfaithful Ways – congrats!

November 30, 2009

Gotta get a record deal, gotta get a record deal!
That has been the catch phrase for young indie musicians for decades, myself included. Hordes of long haired, guitar wielding mumma’s boys religiously following the teachings and trends of ‘Rolling Stone’ or ‘NME’ all pinning their hopes on the fact that it just might be them [...]

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RDU RoundUp – Sleepy Age in the recording studio

November 27, 2009

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 [...]

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Julia Deans debut solo album recording

August 10, 2009

Last week we had the ‘always wonderful’ Julia Deans (FurPatrol) in at The Sitting Room recording studios recording tracks for her first ever solo album. It was a star studded affair with the a multitude of special guest appearances on the record. I wont name names yet but it’s going the be a KILLER album.
There [...]

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There is no depression in New Zealand – Chart

August 10, 2009

Christchurch music industry, audio production and recording studio support…. like a well fitted push up bra
We are extremely lucky in this country to have a music industry and government that supports our arts sector. There is regular funding available for musicians and artists whom which to apply for it and there is a WEALTH of [...]

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Wilco and Feist on Letterman

July 18, 2009

Just another quick post… and another Letterman clip. This time it’s Wilco with a lovely duet from Tweedy and Feist. The haters will probably say it’s boring and pedestrian but I love it.
The production and sound quality is unusually good too for a TV record. Enjoy!

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Recording, mastering, and post production from my bedroom?

July 3, 2009

Are recording and audio post production studios a big waste of time?
One thing that really bakes my noodle, yanks my chain or flicks my wick is what I call ‘old school studio mentality’. What I mean by this is in the past many studios used to pull the old call of ‘We’re the professionals’ or [...]

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A Special Farewell Tribute Song For Michael Jackson

June 26, 2009

When we heard about MJ’s death this morning we knew something had to be done. We quickly put down the incredibly important work we were doing and set to work trying to create something that would really bring honour to his quickly fading memory.
Guitars came out, tears were shed, sweat was sweated, ideas were bandied [...]

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Earnest Goes To RDU

June 12, 2009

Earnest? Did someone say earnest? Well that’s me, and I went RDU this morning to do a little live to air on Breakfast with Spanky. Because this is 2009 and it was on radio the whole thing got recorded and posted to the Breakfast with Spanky blog within minutes!
I played my song ‘All We Could [...]

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