Crispycat Recordings: The End Of Everything

Sunday, July 03, 2005

The End Of Everything

I'm due to have a later session today with Ian Sclater and so take the opportunity, after breakfast and after showing Anne how to use the digital camera and the software to download and edit her pics (of her flowers and of Meg the Black Cat), to redo the lead vocals on the six acoustic songs I recorded in June and on the new song written on Friday for which I recorded the acoustic guitar parts yesterday.

All of a sudden I have a new 7 song EP on my hands and I spend a couple of hours working on one of Anne's photos from this morning of some lillies and using this as the main pic on the cover of the CD.

Cover of the new CBQ CD Single "The End of Everything"

The session with Ian is cancelled at short notice due to unexpected unavailability of the piano player and drummer he's been trying to arrange to play on the disc.

Anne watches the tennis (Federer wins his third Wimbledon in a row beating Ruddock in straight sets) as I continue to tweak the recordings, the cover and the label art. Everything apart from two of the vocal performances are first takes. Two guitars and a vocal and that's it....

Then it's off to Anne's mum's for tea with Jane and Bobby and Ollie and Kitty. Keith's son, Craig is also there and we have a good old chat about the prospects for Hearts next season now they finally have a new manager in George Burley.

Back home later than usual and Anne's on the net trying to book us another holiday....

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