The show goes on

After a brief moment when the sign on the studio door placed doubt in the minds of The Maerlock as to whether this project could continue...

it was thankfully established that we could in fact re-enter the studio. We wonder if pIF's momentous shopping trip to Ted Baker could have done something to dispel any fears from Fellside Central that there were in fact vagrants in the band. I mean, one can't go round with trousers stuck together with gaffer tape for ever...

It was a near miss, but I think Olly saved the day by his highly creative pan-pipe, I mean, marimba playing.

Yes, the marimba did get carted up 3 flights of stairs to the studio, all for the purpose of 5 notes... but they're good notes! See if you can spot them on the record... then we'll know that we didn't blow our budget on extra vehicles to transport huge percussion instruments around for nothing. I forgot to mention the orchestral bass drum...

So life is getting back to normal in Manchester after some larks up in the Lake District. Olly has negotiated the loan of a rather nice piano (and the house that goes with it) to put some tracks on at the end of this week, and then we're done. At least the weather's a bit warmer than when we did the The Maerlock Big Band recording in Feb.

So there shouldn't be so many technical issues with dexterity of the digits...

Here endeth my slightly feeble attempt to fabricate a feasible tale out of a few of the random photos I have of the recording process... It's probably time for bed now. If you want to know more about pIF's Ted Baker story, you'll just have to ask him!

Sarah

PS The album's out mid-June.