Kelly's birthday today. Have a lovely morning with her opening presents and cards. Amongst other things i got her a ukelele so we have some fun working out some tunes. My darling clementine is her first success.
Head into the studio. This morning it's claes' moment to shine. I should calrify that this is just one of many. The piano solo he has worked out for 'long way down' is a great thing. Melodic and understated and doesn't outstay it's welcome.
Fran wants the piano to sound a bit odd so liberally sprinkles cutlery over the strings. With a bit of sonic tinkering from Emery it sounds surprisingly good. All rattle-y and bar room.
I put on a high guitar part that I liked from the demo and then with a bit of tambourine from Neil it all sounds done and dusted.
We move on to 'something anything' which sounds pretty huge already. F puts an insistent guitar part down while Andy does a proper guitar solo. Perfect for air guitar. Make the sign of the horns if you please.
This is a hard song to sing so F goes to work. By late evening though he's got it done. Sounds great. I put on some backing vox and we are another song to the good.
Franny feels like singing some more so we put "song to self" on the reels. when he discovers a wee frog in his throat we decide to call it a night and I nip off to meet kell and her pals for a wee birthday drink (non-alcoholic of course).
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