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.....so here goes then. I don't really know what this place is going to be used for yet; if it gets used for anything at all. I'll probably post a few comments about how The Hair Thieves is progressing from my point of view and maybe a few words about my progress in my new job - I have just started as a trainee train driver.

Hair Thieves: Chris has just sent me a demo of a vocal he has added to some music that I wrote for our forthcoming EP 2. Not 100 percent sure about it yet but we will make it work I'm sure

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Well April has been a most bizarre month. Easter, Family tragedies and other surprises.

Work on EP 2 has resumed after a couple of weeks of complete shut down.

The instrumental is getting there. I've almost finished recording my parts and have asked a special guest (maybe two) to add some bits and pieces. At the moment, it is called "E Weird", which was the initial working title, based on the fact it is E's ideas and it is darn weird.

Lyrics are almost done for another track. Which has been a bit of a struggle, but coming together slowly.

I'm assured the drums and vocals have been recorded for "The Mighty Fall" by Tim of the Dedheds. Just waiting for them to be sent up from Cornwall so E and I can record our parts.

E requested that we re-record an old Hair Thieves song for the EP. Which we shall start re-recording tomorrow... More on that soon.

E's work schedule isn't as bad as originally feared, so live performances may now happen later this year rather than next year. Once we have expanded the lineup further. More on that towards the end of the summer.

We have also started writing two new tracks. The first is called "Shorewards", which came about after I went around E's for a cup of tea and he handed me a bunch of random lines of lyrics. Next day, whilst noodling, I came up with a guitar part and luckily, his bits of lyrics fitted nicely. Less than half an hour later, I had recorded a rough version with drums, bass, guitar, vocals and accordian(?). It still needs some work to flesh it out further.

The second, untitled, song, E has been sending little MP3s of it during the week to me. It has a great little riff on it and I'm looking forward to see what he does next with it.....

In a mad "retail therapy" moment, I've bought a new guitar. Oh dear...

Later

Rollasoc

Daylight Savings time

Well, its the end of the month, so I thought a small update was in order as to the progress of EP2.

The instrumental is going well. E has put his guitar tracks down now and we've spent a couple nights this week, going through my ideas and trying to work out what goes and what stays. It has been a real pleasent experience. I believe we mostly have my parts worked out, I just need to practice them, until I can play them without mistakes, since the nature of the effects on them, means I probably won't be able to fix any mistakes later....

Lyrics are going slowly for the track we have music for, I'm mostly having difficulty with trying to ignore the very melodic bass line and come up with a counter melody that I can actually string a sentence into.

The rest is temporarily on the backburner, now E is away during the week.

Rollasoc

Time Flies by when you are a driver of a train

Ok a quick roundup of the last month. EP1 has been released and we have totally sold out of copies. We may make some more at a later date? We have had some very positive feedback from the vast majority of people who have heard it.

If you didn't get a copy, iIt is available to download for a small fee from

DeadLink

Work has begun on the next EP. The aim to get this finished and released by the end of May, (maybe end of June knowing us).

At present we have a half written instrumental, which we will start recording properly tomorrow, a complete track minus (some) lyrics and a rough demo of a collaboration that took place last August between myself and the singer/drummer of Cornish band The Dedheds. We are just waiting for the singer to record his drum and vocal parts.

Ian has gone and got him self a nice new job, although this means that he will be spending the vast majority of the next year in Cardiff training.

So the plan for the next twelves months will revolve around us mostly writing new material for more EPs and the album. Plans to start gigging and expanding the lineup in the summer have been put on hold as we see how the next few months pan out.

We have been offered an acoustic gig sometime soon, which we have started rehearsing for. So a few acoustic gigs over the next year might be the way forward, depending on work commitments.

Rollasoc

The Mighty Fall

Well the new EP is out. The original 50 nice coloured (Pink, Orange, Green, Blue and Purple) CDs I believe have all gone now and I quickly had to press up another 20 not so nice black CDs (there may be two or three of these left).

If you didn't get a copy it is available to download in MP3 format for the tiny sum of $3.99 from

DEADLINK

So there we are all hyped up and ready to launch into writing and recording EP2 when disaster strikes. E goes and messes one of his fretting fingers up at work and can't properly play for a couple of weeks and I go and get myself Tonsilitis and have been mostly in bed for the last 3 days.

So that's that until everyone is better again.

Right where's the Lemsip

Home Made Hit Show

Apotemnophilia has currently been added to episode 10 of the Home Made hit show.

http://www.homemadehitshow.com/

Please go to the site and listen to the show.

Rollasoc

Where did it go

Humm.. I did post a new blog item last week, but it seems to ahve disappeared off the site. Bizarre that.

Anyway, Happy New Year.

The Hair Thieves have regrouped for the new year and are finally putting the finishing touches to the new EP.

The track listing for which will be (not necessarily in this order)

1. Apotemnophilia
2. Break Casino
3. Girl with two names - Acoustic
4. Boeotia

The aim is to finish up any additional recording over the next couple of days and spend about a week mixing and re-mixing it. So hopefully next weekend we should be at a point to start producing the actual disks and mailing them out.

The artwork is also currently being put together as well.

So if you have applied for a free copy expect one sometime in early February. If you haven't applied for a free copy, goto http://www.hairthieves.com and join the mailing list and I'll send you details on how to get a copy.

Apotemnophilia has been receiving favourable reviews from a review site and others who have heard it. We have been tweaking it a bit based on their comments.

My favourite comment on it so far has been from Mr Robin Page whom summed it up with the following comment.

"Fantastic. For some reason I want to chase gibbons with a chainsaw... hmmmm."

Anyway, best get back to it....

Rollasoc