Noise Trade - Free Download

Hi,

We have released our first three EPs on the noisetrade website.

Noisetrade allows fans to download the albums (or in our case EPs) for free or donate a tip.  So it is all very simple.

Over the last couple of years, I discovered some good bands from the site and downloaded some free music (and later gone back and tipped some of the artists).

We are planning on putting the other three EPs on over the next month or so.

Elsewhere, mixing of EP7 has been going on behind the scenes, during our hiatus. 

Due to festivals coming up and a solo gig we we reconvene for final mix approval plus tea and cookies in early September and plan the release, EP cover and possible video ideas.

Writing sessions for EP8 will commence also.  (We have one song in the bag already).

So we will be back soon!

Later,

Rollasoc

Mid Summer Update

We have finished writing and recording EP7!

Due to house moves, holidays and festival season, we are unlikely to do much work on the mixing, until we reconvene in September.  So I think we will be looking at a late Autumn, early December release.

E has started mixing a few of the tunes. The final tune, I started mixing at the weekend.  So a couple more iterations of the mix to follow in the next week or so.

So over the coming months, I am going to work on the artwork and try and produce an animated video for one of the songs.

I am also going to work on some solo material.  Things left over from old Hair Thieves sessions that were abandoned or things in weird tunings or timings.

So we will be back in September with more news and a finished EP!!!

Have a good summer.

Shorewards - Live Video

Searching through my hard drive today, I came across this video.  It was taken a few years ago when we played Bridgnorth music festival.

Not too shabby a performance.  

Downing Tools

We are getting close to shutting down the recording progress for the summer, due to house moves.  Finally after almost ten years together, we will be living in the same town.

Hopefully, this might mean the return of us playing live, even if only at a few local open mics.  What this will mean is no more 36 mile round trips to recording sessions.  So less time driving, more time writing and recording.

EP7 is almost three quarters there.   Two songs ("Love is Overdrive" & "Epic Song") are ready for mixing, (other than possibility of adding additional backing vocals to one if we need it).

The third tune (as seen in the images) is making good progress and in a first for us, uses some royalty free samples. In addition, there isn't a guitar in sight either.

Hopefully this will be ready for mixing in the week. 

On every EP there is a difficult track.  This appears to be track 2.  This is currently called "Drowning in Air". 

It started as an electronic track.  Which wasn't working, it is currently turning more orchestral, which in turn doesn't work at the tempo of the electronic track, (at which the vocals were recorded).

So a complete re-recording will be in order during the band downtime by me(given he has to sing it).

So there we have it.  Close but no cigar.  We have possibly one more recording session, before we take a break.   Hopefully, we will reconvene in the Autumn and get EP7 out of the door, shortly there after or at least before the end of the year.

I'm off to start re-recording "Drowning in Air".



Later


Rollasoc

Tremelotastic

Well it has been a little while since the last blog post.

February was mostly taken up with Chris doing FAWM.  Where he attempted to write 14 songs in 28 days.  He managed 10 songs.  Two of which will be future Hair Thieves songs.

The first, "The Distance" was demo'd in the last blog post.  I think we are possible keeping that back for EP8.  

The second song is called "Love is Overdrive".  Which will be on EP7.  It is pretty much written now, just needs re-recording, which I started doing over the weekend, in a different key to the demo on the Soundcloud.

March was taken up with holidays and some work finalising the instrumetal for EP7.  See the video above for E practicing a guitar part for the ending.

So EP7 progress is being made.  Two songs written and in the process of being recorded.

One song in a partial written state and our usual re-record an old song, not started, but we know which song it will be and will possibly be the last old song to be re-recorded, since we have run out of ones we want to re-record.

So over the next month, we are going to crack on with EP7.  It probably won't be finished until Autumn, so location changes may be in order soon, so we might end up downing tools for a couple of months over the summer.  We shall see how things pan out.

Personally, I'm getting itchy fingers to go out and start playing live again, even if it is only open mic nights.  So time to get the acoustic out and start practicing a new set of tunes.

Later

Chris

The Distance (Demo)

Demo of a tune written for Fawm 2015. Basically we set ourselves a very short period of time to write and demo (as simply as possible) a song. So this was written in about 3 hours on a Sunday afternoon and then played with for a couple of hours two days later. Vocals are a composite of some vocals recorded on one day and others on another day. It is demo.... It was written using EZKeys as a tool to come up with the chord sequence. We aim to re-record this from scratch / replace / amend / change the r&b piano ballad. So it might end up similar or totally different. We shall see over time.

Deep Down You Know That I'm Right

Written as part of Fawm 2014