This Week in the Studio: 10.08.15

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This was supposed to be purely a video day, but we ended up with a new song about Gus’s love of various iPod colours…

We didn’t mean to open the studio. The day was supposed to be about the video for Whisper. Andy and Jimmy met early (and earlier than Jimmy thought as he was still in the shower) to mix 500 Letters from New York. We are in our ‘new and improved’ mixing mode, so we mostly stripped out things, which is always satisfying. Sophie then arrived to add some cello bits to Whisper. Cecily was having a bad dad though, and Sophie spent a lot of time trying to convince her to improve on the cello bits, but she mostly kept quiet. But we got 17 minutes of an E flat, which surely will come in handy some time in our future. You can never have enough e flats on the cello.
We then moved into video mode and mostly filmed Gus singing Whisper staring at a 10 year old film projector playing a DVD. This is Andy’s idea of art. Poor Gus had to deal with Jimmy and Sophie singing their own version of Whisper in the background. This version is called Whiskas and is about a cat expressing her joy at not being a dog. Gus did not think this was very amusing. Then Sophie had to do the same thing – staring at a projector and looking ‘dumped’ (in Whisper, Gus ‘dumps’ the girl – something about leaving her to drown in a row boat… nice Gus, nice). Sophie wasn’t overly happy about this role in the video, so we let her also pretend to play the cello. All this took a ridiculously long time and about 40 run throughs of Whisper, which was everyone’s favourite Abubilla song, but now all of us really, really hate it.
Pizza was late (not good Papa John’s) but was delicious and then back in the studio for a new Gus song played on his nifty new guitar. It is called ‘Transform’ and appears to be about Gus’s love of transformers and desire to talk about his girl’s electronic equipment (new girl now and it is back to a love song – no one drowning in waves of feeling or seas of love). Has the line ‘I love the colours of your iPod’ – Gus’s finest moment. In our new minimalist mode, Andy then added bass, keys, organ and tin whistle, all of which were muted by Jimmy. Andy also played drums in his long term effort to control 100% of all performance credits and keep Mike from ever coming to Spain again, thus ending the role of Body Pong  in our musical history.
That was it. Only final point was Jimmy knocked over ‘THE’ mic stand — holding our best mic and our ‘shield’. Broke both. Blamed Lewie.

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