About three years ago, me and some friends decided to form a band. At the time I was in Sri Lanka, the bass player was in Geneva, the guitarist was in Boston and the drummer in Winnipeg but that wasn’t going to stop us. We practiced our seperate parts and then played one gig to the rapturous applause of 20 before going our separate ways.
We decided to keep things going though by trying to record an album over the internet. I’d sketch out some songs and post the demos as mp3s for the others to comment on. Then during the recording process they’d email WAV files of their respective parts to me and I’d stitch it all together.
In the end there was about 12 songs and I think less than 5 people have copies of the full thing. But recently I thought I should send a selection of tunes to Nightshift, a local music magazine. One thing led to another and I got a phone call last week saying that some of our stuff was going to be played on the local BBC! How about that?! You can listen to the programme online (it’s about 45 minutes in) and vote for our song to be played in full next week.
The host says we’re his favourite *blush blush*
Edit: Download an mp3 of the broadcast. The full song can also be downloaded – “Your Morning Smile”.
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Anyone up for a second album? I’m keen on doing something again and I would be glad to make up for the embarassingly amateurish bass recordings I sent over to you. For me, this is way more about redemption than fame! heh
Just a bit more to add: SPDR got reviewed in Nightshift magazine this month.
http://nightshift.oxfordmusic.net/2005/nov/nov.pdf