22nd November – o2 Academy 2 Islington - facebook event

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Still can’t promise a release date, it’s too hard to say when I have other work commitments, but I know I’m going to be extra busy in the next couple of months trying to get this album out!

Some pics of the studio this week…

“I wish more than anything in the entire world, that I could pick up a guitar and just know how to play it. I own a guitar, but I can’t play much more than the first 2 bars of ‘Simple Man’. So when someone comes along, with more talent than you could shake a Les Paul at, it makes me about ready to pull a London Calling on my guitar and break the entire thing to smithereens.

Cue Sydney native Daniel Peterson. Not only did the debonair musician play the impressive guitar licks for his Strawberry Blonde EP, but he also has a go as drummer, pianist, and pretty much everything else that you can hear on the solid, self-released rock/pop EP. The four song Strawberry Blonde is a mix of summery pop and indie alt rock which all form an extremely easy to listen to piece of work – despite Peterson citing Metallica, Megadeth and Jeff Buckley as his musical inspiration.

With tracks like the hopeful ‘Rose’ and the pensive ‘Good Love’, the EP succeeds in sounding fresh and intriguing, without ever straying into tacky or forced. ‘Good Love’ grabs with distorted guitar and a more alt rock sound, which is topped off by a perfectly timed acapella outro that brings a more grounded feel to the EP. Title track ‘Strawberry Blonde’ has all the elements of a massive pop hit, from the sing-along lyrics, to the tinkling piano.

Strawberry Blonde is finished off with ‘Last Dance’, a stunningly raw acoustic track that gives Peterson a chance to show off his soulful vocals and acts as the perfect lasting memory of the EP. Thankfully, the Strawberry Blonde EP is a taster of things to come with an imminent album from Daniel Peterson, which I am definitely looking forward to checking out.”

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Florrie is giving away loads of tracks for free on her site, check it out!

Download and share from the player below. You can also download Florrie’s original version - click here.

I recorded ‘I’m The Ocean’ in a day at Limestone Studios in Sydney… have a look here at the video blog post.

The artwork is a photo from my favourite beach in the world – Hawks Nest beach where we spent Christmas holidays (that’s summer in Australia) almost every year when I was growing up.

All instruments performed by Daniel Peterson – © & ℗ 2010 Daniel Peterson

I don’t really know why this happened today, but when I woke up this morning I decided to record an acoustic version of one of my old songs (Good Love) in a day, for a bit of a challenge or something. So I told Facebook this was what I was going to do. If I didn’t tell anyone then I might not be as compelled to finish it off, and it actually did help me focus. It took me from 11:34am until 2:45am to finish, stopping only to eat a can of baked beans for 10 minutes (my body hurts from sitting in one spot for 15hrs). I got a bit carried away and recorded a full compliment of instruments, and made an alternative arrangement of the song and even changed entire parts because I felt like it. So I don’t know what this is for, I just had the urge. You can download it for free to have a listen. It’s a pretty rough mix and hasn’t been mastered obviously, but it’ll do. I might do this version live sometimes, it’s different, I like it. Maybe tomorrow I will work more on the album and not get distracted by recording old songs, who knows?!

During the time playing bass for them, we took a trip to New York City to film a music video for their song Long Narrow Road. I took my video camera and filmed as much of our time as possible to document it. I cut 5 hours of footage down to 28mins or so, restraining myself from using more. It was a lot of fun doing a music video on a rooftop at the foot of the Empire State Building and around Manhattan.

Split into 3 parts, here is the result of our journey to NYC. Props to the very awesome directors of the actual music video, which can watch at the bottom of the post. They are called Twin.

Joe’s Birthday from Mark Sherratt on Vimeo.

The song I’m The Ocean, was the first to be recorded for the album, and at the moment, it’s the first song to be finished and mastered. Recorded in Australia on my last visit home – I was out there for 4 months playing gigs there for the first time. Fun times.

The opportunity arose to put this track down in a studio near Surrey Hills in Sydney, called Limestone Studio. It was a great little place run by two excellent guys, Louis Schoorl (from Holand) and Steeve Body (from France). They were a laugh to work with. It was a bit of fluke finding two gents with whom I could feel completely comfortable recording with from the word go, especially having only done a few google searches to find them.

The initial reason I gravitated towards their studio through google was because they had all the instruments I needed to use which were set up all the time, ready to go. This was perfect as I only brought my Strat and Vibrolux with me from London.  It makes such a massive difference to the recording process when the people involved are really great to work with. They made it possible to pull off recording the song in one day – thanks to their dedication and hard work. If you’re hunting for a studio in Sydney, definitely look them up!!

This video has been slapped together fairly quickly as I didn’t have a lot of footage to work with, I need to get someone to film more next time I’m in the studio!

I asked Paul to go through, in a little bit of detail, what equipment was being used to record the drums. I thought it would be nice to document for my future reminiscing of recording this album.