INERTIA BLOOMS

In the continuation of a theme, not much has happened in way of work on the album. Not directly anyway. The studio has seen a break in activity long enough to get a bunch of our gear properly serviced, and as soon as it returns we’ll be back in the game. Like we were ever in it to begin with!

That being said we’re playing our first gig for a while on the 21st of April at The Flapper in Birmingham. Check out the facebook group for it here.

http://www.facebook.com/events/190594821053939/

I always say at the end of these things that we’ll try and update you more frequently, and then never do, so we’ll try and update you more frequently….

So we did the demos and realised lots of things were far too slow, so we’ve decided to sort all that jazz out and FINALLY get on and do this thing properly. Work starts on Thursday and I’ll be treating it like it’s my full time job until it is finished! The words ‘labour of love’ don’t quite cut it. We will finish this.

For now, here is a video of us playing one of the tracks, ‘Something, Something, Moscow’, live at The Flapper in Birmingham, supporting the mighty Brontide.

Hello all. Bit of a fork in our road to finishing this record. We’re trying to book up some gigs for the autumn, and in doing so have had requests for new material, so what we decided to do was turn the guide drums and bass into ‘album demos’. So now we have cds that so far have 8 tracks totalling over 56mins. The plan is to use these to work out absolutely what tempo everything should be, double check everyone is playing the best possible thing and to familiarise Joe with the songs, since he is tasked with helping us making them sound awesome. Check out http://zedface.co.uk/ out for behind the scenes pics and his general musings.

I would write ‘hopefully this next stage wont take too long’ but that’s not how we do things here at Blooms HQ. Hopefully this next stage wont take too long.

Here are a few pics of what’s been going on, and the previous Carnage Club @ Temple of Boom, at which we played.

Hello 3 or 4 peoples. We’re at it again. Mitch has been in to do his guide guitars, and Tim is currently gurning his way through a particularly painful looking solo! So far we’ve managed to find a guitar noise that sound like Sweep from Sooty getting touched up. A productive day!

By sticking some guitars on, we’ve noticed various bits being too slow or fast again. Argh.

Hello all. We’ve been busy, but busy doing other things. Running a working recording studio and rehearsal rooms can mean we’re fully booked up and can’t get in at our own place! Since we’ve done the drums we’ve had Stourbridge’s own Drop The Ball in doing Guitars and Vocals for their forthcoming EP, a drum mixing session for Nottingham’s Colonies and then local supergroup History of The Hawk in doing a vocal session.

We managed to get a couple of tracks down on bass during the small bouts of downtime between recordings and the usual weeks rehearsals. Hopefully we can get back to it on Tuesday, if Mondays mix sessions go according to plan.

Working it out, we reckon it’ll be 28 days of tracking, split over where and when we can get in. Just a bit of an inside to why this album is taking us so long!