Teething problems....

We've been feeling the pressure recently to come up with new material, as it's been remarked in live jams several times that we aren't really jamming so much as just practicing. Nothing wrong with that of course, but jams should be that; jamming, not going over, again and again and AGAIN.....

So this has of course meant a push towards newer material... which has been tough as hell to write, because none of us seem to agree on anything.... except that we don't want to sound like every other band out there. So at the moment, we're only really working on four new pieces, and one of them we've called "Dog" because that's precisely what it is. The Dog of the set at the moment. It's got a shed load of potential, is fast paced, punky, catchy.... and almost totally im-fucking-possible to finish. We keep adding new bits, scrapping it, starting again, arguing over the structure, playing it.... and the worst part is, we come to a jam expecting to work on it, and no one can remember what was changed....

Grrrrr.....

That should, hopefully, have stopped. It's been transcribed, lyrics appear to be finished, and there's some set structure now. So that's one. There's '7:41', an entire song born out of tiny snippet of guitar harmony no more than fifteen seconds long that Mike gave us to play with. It's very dark, atmospheric, and definately metal... And Some of us are struggling to get our heads around it. And once again, it's impossible to finish. It's got two major time signature changes, and about five parts.

WTF?!

Then there's the other metally one. Hopes are high for this one actually, because we just went straight through the writing process in the space of an hour. It sounds cool, is the newest piece, but..... Has no lyrics yet.


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And finally, there's 'Lose control.' One from the pen of Mike. It's probably near as dammit complete, maybe one or two harmonies on guitar need tightening up. Other than that, it's pretty much done.



So there you have it. It takes time to write our songs. Time, a lot of frustration, heavy use of the care package, lots of tea, and lots of soft drinks. You guys better love them when we play them next, cos we're going nuts trying to write them for you!

Cheers Guys,

G13