French For Rabbits - Blue Barn Studio

Spent last weekend in Wellington recording Drums, Bass, Strings, Guitar and some Vocals for French For Rabbits, again at Blue Barn studios.They're due to come back up to Auckland to finish it off next weekend.

Hula Hope - Drum Recording

A few weeks ago I recorded the bones of 3 more songs with Hula Hope from Wellington featuring guest vocals from Steve Abel. I'm in the process of adding a few extra parts to them (bass, keys etc) and asked Alex to play some drums/percussion. I'd added some of me playing individual marching drums on a song but needed more of a full drum kit sound for the others.

French For Rabbits

French For Rabbits were here over the weekend recording and mixing some songs for their album. We finished a single a couple of weeks back and they've just shot a video for it. They've also just got another grant so I should be heading down to Wellington again soon to work on another single, and they'll be back up to finish their album.

Here are some pictures of how Brooke spent most of her time while we were mixing!!

French For Rabbits

 I spent a few days at Blue Barn studio in Wellington with French For Rabbits working on a Single that might feature on their forthcoming album. Pretty fun getting in to a different space for a bit although I hardly felt like I was in Wellington as I didn't leave the studio except for sleep! We worked hard and got all the tracking done, now I'm back in Auckland ready to mix it all.

Lets get outta this town.

Bearcat released their album nationwide a couple of weeks ago so they thought it was only fair to go and visit the finer parts of the country. Dan Jocee enlisted the help of Paul and myself (on drums and bass respectively) and we flew down to Wellington to play Watusi on the Thursday evening.

On Friday we woke up super early and caught the ferry to Picton then drove to Christchurch and played at Red Panda's (an organisation who put on all ages events in Christchurch) Prom. Oh my goodness there are going to be some great bands coming out of that city soon!

Both nights were great! Wellington had heaps of people in crazy (sometimes a bit scary verging on misfits) panda face paint and in Christchurch everyone was dressed in suits and ball gowns dancing crazy! Plus the people of Christchurch are super friendly!

I had to desert the Pandas to shoot back up to Auckland and play a show with Grace Lawry which was a bit disappointing to miss out on road trip to Dunedin, but Grace's show was well worth it! Pukekohe was crazy cool! Here are some photos from the trip...