For our rehearsal yesterday evening at Studio 91 I decided to take the trusty camcorder with me to get a couple of vids of the new song’s that we’ve been working on. (Since nobody want’s to come and hear us rehearse)

The first is titled “Mechanical Butterfly” and its kind of got that epic feel about it.  There are a few minor fuckups, including myself but thats mainly because there are a few points at which I completely adlib.

Mechanical Butterfly by Happiness@Gunpoint from Gary Black on Vimeo.

Happiness@Gunpoint playing “Mechanical Butterfly” at their rehearsal at Studio 91 on April 23rd 2009

The second is called “Aisle 6″ and the idea for this song came whilst we were on a break thinking of ideas, when I happened to say “We need a hook” and Sian replied “They’re down aisle 6….”  Its truely strange where some song ideas come from.  This song is a little difficult to make out because of the poor sound quality of my camcorder and the loudness of the cymbals.

Aisle 6 by Happiness@Gunpoint from Gary Black on Vimeo.

“Aisle 6″ written and performed by Happiness@Gunpoint
Video recorded on 23rd April 2009 whilst rehearsing at Studio 91.

Neither of these songs has a real ending, which just kinda stop and make up the ending each time

Please have a watch/listen and let us know any feedback that you may have.

Ok I’m a little disappointed with the recordings since I listened back to them this morning on my trusty ear-pod.

I believe this to be down to the fact that I mixed the tracks with some crappy speakers that are connected to my computer.  When listening back to the tracks via these speakers they sound absolutely fine, but obviously the speakers are colouring the audio a little too much.

Looks like I may have to invest in some monitor speakers, as these give a complete linear response. Cheaper the better obviously so if anyone finds any let me know, otherwise I’ll probably get these

http://www.dv247.com/invt/23854/

Ok so I’ve uploaded a couple more dodgy recordings of our songs.  Which are as follows

Can’t Stop Me

Guardian Angel

Have a listen and let us know what you guys think.

Also I’ve managed to get some more photograph’s from our man FlipFlop and these have also been placed in the Media page.

Eye’s front guys…. not on your damn fretboards!

Eye’s front guys…. not on your damn fretboards!

A number of songs from our rehearsal on Thursday 12/02/09 have now been uploaded including

Shaun which has vocals now

Farewell To Innocance

Gone Away (Offspring Cover)

I’m still working on getting the vocals recorded for the others but I’ll repost when they are done.  Please remember these are infact live recordings of a practice session so they contain any number of mistakes and fuck ups!

Last night Happiness@Gunpoint descended on Studio 91 as they do every Thursday evening to have 3 hours of fun packed rehearsal time.  Only this time there was a difference!

Whilst we work out the time and money required to get Jordan to lay down some pro tracks we thought we’d take our old recording gear up there so

1.  we have a reference point
2.  so we could upload something here that doesn’t sound like complete wank.

Last night we managed to get some rough and ready recordings of Gone Away, Farewell To Innocence, Shaun, Guardian Angel, and Can’t Stop Me.  We would have had the funky version of Gone Away but Steven didn’t shut down the mixer correctly and it has been lost to the ether.So now I have to sit here get it all off the mixer and mix it down as best of possible.  I’ll post back once its complete.