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The Boglin who found his way home. posted Feb 17, 02:48 pm

I can’t tell you how nice it was to play another show. Thanks to everyone who came out to watch us at Dublin castle last week! We hadn’t played in ages and had just been writing and rehearsing so it was much needed to play a show and let out some of our energy (or just play somewhere other than in the flat where we practice!).

Thursday and Friday last week we were up in Bristol recording a new song with the (working?) title of Wolf Parade, courtesy of NP Records. Something to do with drummer’s infatuation with animal t-shirts methinks. The studio just in the basement of a house in a back road, but it was wicked: a room just full of amps and cabs, a sh*te load of effects pedals, lots of really cool analogue gear and many many many twinkly fairly lights for a ‘great vibe man’. Notable was Matt (engineer)‘s midi Les Paul with built in ebow. Quite possibly heavier than the moon, but we got some cool stuff from it; an ebow vibrates the strings meaning you can play notes with infinite sustain by just putting your finger on the string(s) and it sounds like anything but guitar, it’s wicked. Thanks to the cool array of gear we got to do fun stuff like bi-amp with a guitar part going through two different amps and two different phaser pedals at the same time. I had to work unfortunately on the first day but came up on the second to do my vocals but could have spent a whole day just talking with Matt about gear and technical electrical jargon. Regardless of the recording, Bowman came out of the studio on Friday evening one happy and nostalgic boy at the sight of his newly-owned Boglin goblin-hand-puppet-thing. It’s definitely going to a good home.

We also finally have management in the form of Steve Orchard, he’s helping us out at the moment which is great. About time.

Right cold cold cold it is very cold sitting here typing this, I am going to get a big fat hot coffee now I think. Go and check out Wolf Parade up on our myspace player now!!

AK

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