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As you may or may not have heard, we reached the final of the Walsall unplugged competition. Kieran isn't a fan of playing unplugged, but he arrived at my house nice and early holding what I believe to be an Indian tabla drum. We ate Bacon and set off down the motorway to Walsall. A short while later we got to the old square shopping centre and were greeted by a Beacon radio stage. The stage was small, the lights were a gazillion degrees and we were ready! Three songs later (So Alone, Morals and Hey) we were finished. I can honestly say I've never felt more like Tiffany in my entire life. We played a decent set, but obviously it would have been much nicer to play full band. The band following us turned up. Full drum kit, stacks the works. The absolute gits. ;) We've watched a few of the other acts, ...

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Eck! The final day of the recording of Murdoch Drive is here. We've been at Parlour Sound Recording Studios for 20 days now, and it's been a blast - hard work, but a blast nonetheless. So how's it's sounding I hear you ask? Fan-bloody-tastic. But you'll have to wait a while before you find out, we have all sorts of things to get done - photoshoots, cover artwork, mastering and all that shite before we're ready to launch - but to find out information before everyone else join our newsletter (use that green box in the top right!) In between recording, fighting the monster and working hard for the rhesus cause, what's occurred? Well let me tell you...

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So we've made it through the recording process. Now we'll spend the rest of the week mixing the songs to get all the levels and sounds right. Neil is doing all the hard stuff, we just get to go in and say what we like, what needs to be changed, and what just sounds amazing. While Neil is working his bollocks off, we're doing the same by taking the rest of the week to tie up loose ends, keep working on some design pieces, make sure we blog and update the fans on what we're up to, and we're getting together some more video clips to post (hopefully) in the next blog.

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I've tried to avoid writing a blog for as long as possible because, lets face it, I'm not very good at this kind of thing. In the studio day 12. Yesterday we finished yet another track for the album and Rich had somehow lost his voice for talking but strangely could still belt out the notes needed to record the vocals. Rich has been working on all sorts of extra stuff, but we decided to take a break from all the music making and Rich, Linds and myself went out into Kettering for a few drinks. The first bar looked like, and to quote Rich, "A few council houses pushed together to make a pub". But we went in and it was quite nice inside. After a drink in there we found the obligatory Weatherspoons. We had a drink in there and then went next door to what I think was a sports bar/restaurant. ...

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Rhesus log, star date 42073.1. Today has been a long and arduous day for us all. We've been putting our all into making this album, and to be frank, most of us are fucking shattered. Kieran's alright though. He's running off pure chocolate bar power. Ben, Linds and I are taking it in time to get our parts down - Neil Haynes (our producer) is putting us through our paces and the bloke won't except anything less than perfection, which is why we came back and why we love the bloke - we wouldn't want to be in any other recording studio right now!

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