..finally got a producer
Yes after much agonising we've at last settled on a producer for the album, which is a huge relief to say the least! We finally opted to work with Gavin Monaghan at his studio in Wolverhampton. We'd had Gavin in mind for some time, having heard about him through his earlier work with The Editors and The Twang etc....having met him, we were quite blown away to discover what a truly pleasant and positive chap he is - not that we should have expected him to be otherwise of course ;) .
It's nice (and reassuring) when someone you've just met seems to share the same ideas and perspectives on your music that you do...we found that straight away when when we met with Gavin for the first time, and we're now expecting some very big and epic things when we get in to the studio in May. We're really hyped up about the whole thing right now, and have already written about 3-4 new tracks since the start of the year, some of which are definitely going to be making it onto the album - and we thought we had the tracklisting planned out in December! It's looking like an early August release right now, so we'd better start planning a party.....any ideas would of course be very welcome!
Hope you are all good
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Thank you guys!
Gnome label, I know what you mean..I think we've missed the boat on most of the main festivals already though, sadly :( we'll still be trying our best on that front however, and are waiting to hear about a few events at the minute at least. In the meantime we want to plan a decent launch somewhere to make the most of things. We're almost certainly going to put on a big night here in Leicester, but would like to put together a second launch night, maybe in London....
This year is bit different, as well. Everyone's frightened about numbers being down because of the threatened downturn in the economy. Insurance has shot up because of last year's weather and the licensing authorities and police are turning the thumbscrews on.costwise. So I think there is going to be a flurry of late bookings. There are quite a few worried people out there that can't sit back and relax for a while.
You can afford to be a bit heavy handed with the PR
Don't forget to remind them that because of the Press take up on your achievement and the whole Internet fame thing--there are a mob of TV types that are screaming out to do live interviews with you at events.