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As mentioned previously, this past month or so I've been beavering away at the next Fringe show for me and Steve ( which is now pretty definitely going to be called "Hey Hey 16K") and I'd decided to try and get it DONE over the bank holiday weekend. There was a lot of other things happening, as previously mentioned and also including some BIKE RIDING (we hired them from The View Tube and they were BRILLIANT - proper actual comfortable bikes rather than the nightmarish hell vehicle racing monstrosities I had a go on at the Velodrome back in June) but on Sunday afternoon I had the flat to myself so settled in to record some DEMOS!

SIDEBAR: there really is no nice looking way to write the plural of "demo" is there? I usually prefer "demoes" but know it's technically wrong, whereas the correct spelling "demos" looks like a right wing think tank.

Anyway, I got the four track out and set it up to record live in the same way as I do for Totally Acoustic Podcasts. This has the advantage of sounding nice and being easy to set up, also to mix, but does mean I have to get the whole song right all the way through! A couple of songs gave me a bit of difficulty, but I managed to get them all done - here's the LIST of what i did:

History's Rewritten

I Think You Might Be Me

The Future Is Amazing

I Wish That I Was Normal

Dad Jokes

A.D.A. Lovelace

20 Things To Do Before You're 30

In The North Stand

Worse Things Happen At Sea

A Riff

The first six are all NEW songs for the show, and I did a version of "20 Things" because I wasn't sure if Steve had ever heard it. The remainder are some new (or new versions of) songs specifically for The Vlads - I thought I might as well, as I was sending them some of the new songs from the show too, in case any appealed.

It was a LOT of songs but I'm glad to say that I thoroughly enjoyed going through them again, so much so that after making one tiny adjustment to the script I decided to call that IT and send it off to Steve for his perusal. Tonight we're meeting in a pub to discuss PLANS and THORTS - it has begun!

posted 28/8/2014 by MJ Hibbett

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