das gelbe vom ei

to keep anyone interested up to date, there are some mp3's here to listen to. progress is still slow with the new stuff; we played force field pt.2 at kuudes linja and immediately regretted it. however, this seems to be one of the necessary steps to be taken when writing something new. for us at least.

what we usually do when we're attempting to write a pop song (in four easy steps):

1. spend months playing nonsense, sixteen parts or something, then start to cut down, reel in the good, and argue amongst ourselves about which part was good etc.

2. spend many more weeks working on what you now have left, disagree with people about silly things like "nine chords in that progression is too much!" "well three isn't enough!". which is just shit

3. suddenly notice that everyone is getting tired of the new stuff and would rather work on new new stuff, which is basically going back to step one, before reading step 4.

4. at some point the something we've spent since august tackling is starting to sound like a proper song that still needs vocals. from here on it gets easier, usually someone has an idea of what the song might end up sounding like by now and we tend to go with that.

so here are some of the fruits of our labour:
AA-051206-1
AA-051206-3
AA-121206-1 (for Sheffield)

we're going to do something at a studio in the first week of january and the plan is to record 'this just won't do' and a second song, to be released later on in the spring of 2007.

kuudes linja poster in progress

orange,red & black ink on paper, colours inverted. this is for the show at kuudes linja on the 22nd of november.

the wheat and barley in the hem-of-your-skirt

lighten up, roy. we finally have a name now, 'athletic arms' is something that seems to be ironic and ambiguous enough for our purposes. we might have a gig coming up at the end of the month, apparently 90% certain.. 'force field' seems to be ready now in form, the only thing left to do is emily's vocal; 'death suit' seems to be going in a rather odd direction as of wednesday, leaning away from lumbering, teetering on the brink of fast music. still fairly big in it's way, which is always nice. something to empty stadiums with, or even small rooms if it turns out right. the general consensus at the moment seems to be that we should drop the title 'turned' out of the whole deal, these new songs work well played in a row, but at the same time they function perfectly well on their own too. so all is well now, things are looking up to an extent and there are some plans of recording something in january that we can give a proper release.

p.s. i will try to leave out the nonsense of previous posts in future. planning the future outlook of stuff is alright if i'm the only one that comes here, but i think it's time to put up some links to this blog soon. a redesign of the ole' website is on it's way too, if i ever manage to tackle php.