Merry Seasonal Doo-Dahs!

Merry Seasonal Doo-Dahs!! Lots has happened since the last news, with the Brighton festival and Norden Farm Arts Centre gigs under our belts we set off down the road to the Granary studio in wee Toft Monks to record the new album ... a D.I.Y affair that saw us both playing and engineering.
We'd decided that the cavernous church sound - though having served us well on the last two albums - needed toning down. So back to the barn where we recorded our debut album.
We had a good couple of days recording and were listening back, but things were not quite hunky dory. Somehow what we had was not matching the sounds we'd imagined and the way we wanted this record to feel.
We left the sessions with a large question mark which has taken a few weeks and quite a lot of soul-searching to digest.... but, a plan has hatched which involves hitting the studio again in feb 2011 to begin again with a fresh approach, a few extra new tunes, and the possibility of (shock, horror!) Multi-tracking - courtesy of Mr John Vigar and his shiny studio.
Its always tricky trying to translate what happens live into a recording and we felt it was time to take off the restrictions we'd subconsciously placed on it and allow ourselves to use the studio as a creative space in order to realise our sound the way it is in our heads!
Soooooo, exciting times ahead. We'll keep you updated on progress and hope to have a launch at some point in 2011.
Meanwhile Laura has a very exciting (re-scheduled) Norwich gig with Handel-addicts 'The Brook Street Band' whose recent 'In Tune' session on radio 3 blew me away. Date tbc.
And I'm off on the bus for more adventures in Plovdiv, Bulgaria with my tamboura teacher Vladimir Vladimirov to soak up some sounds, tricks and ornaments and have some time just writing tunes.
Wishing you all the very bestest for 2011!!