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IN THE STUDIO DAY 1
SATURDAY 21ST AUGUST 2010In The StudioI arrived at Air Studios at about eleven forty five on Saturday morning. No drinking last night, I wanted to be in the right frame of mind for the recording process.
So I made my way through the pretty huge studio’s and was kinda overwhelmed, photo’s of these legends who’ve recorded there on the walls of the building people like Elton John, Paul McCartney, The Stones, Rush and Dire Straights, it‘s a bizarre feeling to be in a building where an album as iconic as Brothers In Arms were recorded.
So I head over to reception and they offer me a coffee which I accept, the young receptionist walks me along to one of the recording spaces, as we’re making our way along the corridors of the building, I realise that this place is fucking huge, very intimidating.
We arrive at my designated studio, it has my fucking name on the door, how crazy is that, I was out of my mind at that point. “Make yourself comfortable, Miss Walton.” I head into the room and I study it for a moment. I take a seat, begin drinking my coffee and flick through the free magazines.
I peek out of the door to see if anyone’s around outside of the room, there’s nobody around, so I sit back down and light up a cigarette, it’s a no smoking building, that’s the worst part about being in the UK but rules are there to be broken I guess.
I hear a knock at the door just as I set down a magazine and as I glance over it’s Danny Allen and Jason Smith, “Hey how you doing.” Danny asks. I reply, “I’m doing good, it’s big fucking building though, isn’t it.” After we sit down and discuss what I want to achieve from this album, we begin work.
20 minutes later and there’s another arrival in the shape of Eric Quillington, frontman of Infinite and all round legend, I’ve met him quite a bit over the past couple of months and every time I meet him I’m always so nervous. He says hi and we all talk for about 5 minutes.
I head over to the sound booth and record a couple of rough vocals and things begin to flow, as the day kicks on things start to fall into place, we’ve got a rough version of each of the vocals and on Monday I’m gonna be joined by my touring band and hopefully they’ll help give the songs that extra bit of power, so after the first day of working I’ve got a pretty positive feeling about things.
It wasn’t a long first day, a couple of hours just to sort of kick things off and then on Monday that’s when the hard work starts.
Next on the agenda, the pub across the street.OOC: I know it's not the greatest start, I've realised that this could be more difficult than I expected but I'd like to think it will improve. Edited by user 22 August 2010 05:12:11(UTC)
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