tonight is the night that i will fall for you

when we were in america last year, there was all kinds of wild stuff happening with the studio that we were supposed to be using (a long story which includes the mafia, fire department, more mafia an breaking and entering). so at the start of our trip we had 2 days to check out new york before we got down to recording our album, 'hey everyone'.
we were in a clothes shop, and the radio was on. the song playing made all of us (we were scattered all around the store) to look up and give lots of "OMFG ARE YOU HEARING THIS?" to each other.
that song was 'fall for you' by secondhand serenade. now, every american who is reading this will know what i'm talking about straight away, but for those of you in europe (who weren't subjected to months of this song everywhere), here's what it sounds like:



now...
in the few weeks after we got obsessed with it - it constantly came on the radio on the drive to the studio, on tv, we downloaded it and got drunk and sung along - its like it was following us.
surely nothing could top that nauseating, autotuned shudderfest?
but one night in the studio we all got drunk and tried (travis from gym class heros even stopped by).
calum wasn't with us at the time so i sung it all, we played it live and you have NO IDEA how many takes it took to do the acoustic 'breakdown' part. some guy was filming it too, but we don't know what happened to it, hopefully that will show up soon - there's pouting and cigarettes and limp bizkit slam dancing.

enjoy (?)

http://www.mediafire.com/?o2ztjmz5inz

JBJ x

NY PART SEVEN

Dananananaykroyd In NY Part Seven from David Roy on Vimeo.

YOU ESSAY

So, just hours ahead of our 2nd ever visit to the US of States, here are some "images" from our 1st ever visit. Because I only just got them developed.

SONGS

For no real reason, here's the songs we recorded in New York, soon to be assembled into our debut long player. The countdown begins!:

Totally Bone (you know the score)
Some Dresses (ditto - particularly proud of the spacky breakdown middle section. Not too ridiculous, not too restrained. Just perfect)
One Chance (a sharp blast of hardcore screamo action)
Watch This! (stabby riffy shouty number with singalong start and middle sections. Trickiest riff to play for me, but probably the dumbest song on the record. Go figure)
Pink Sabbath (album version of the first single from the record. Might be slightly faster or slightly slower than single version. Who knows or cares? Rock on)
Black Wax (ridiculously cocky mid-tempo stomp with Andrew WK pianos. Seriously. Lol)
Hey Everyone (explosive intro track with Jim O'Rourke-esque riffy bit)
The Greater Than Symbol & The Hash (brand new, even more pulverising version of live favourite - The middle section sounds like we're summoning demons with our guitars)
1993 (same again - but more rocking at the rocking part and more pretty at the pretty part)
Infinity Milk (full length album version with destroying choruses and my favourite bit of guitars ever. Only sounds like Chrome Rainbow for a second and a half. Still too much? You need your head checked. Lol)
Hey James (old skool style Dana song with thunderous guitar end section and Calum hopefully sounding like he's dying - amazing. 5 minutes longer than it should be - amazing. Dedicated to our oldest friend and former drummer James - rocking)
America Runs On Duncan (Duncan's first song for the band is a quite outstanding slice of jangly, angular [jangular?] 90's indie-rock)
Crisps (dark and haunting rocktageous jammy one with shouty "bup!"'s throughout the verses)
Song One Puzzle (yeah yeah - same again, just far more rocking and punishing at the end)

DO I SOUND LIKE IM PROUD OF OUR FORTHCOMING RECORD?
YOU WOULD BE TOO IF IT WAS YOURS!
UNLESS YOU LIKE TOPLOADER
OR ARE RADIOHEAD

NYCya!

The recording has be going well, we have 2 days off to chillax, and here's what the first day looked like -

Rivington from Duncan Robertson on Vimeo.


Here's a vodka / travelsicked green David :