I am rubbish at updating this site. Sorry. To both of you reading this. I’m truly sorry.

What have I been up to? Recording mainly. The original idea was to record simple demos of the band versions of my songs with the current line-up of Johnny and Naomi. So we’d have something to show people as an example of the songs with the new line-up. As is the way with most things I do, the idea quickly escalated and it now looks to be some kind of DIY home recorded release. Maybe two. It will also involve all members of The Dead Set, past and present as Jon and Steve helped me record a bunch of the songs the new line-up hasn’t yet worked on.

Here’s Johnny ‘in the studio’ working out his parts:

I’ve been dawdling on recording my parts though, so things are progressing slowly. I hate recording vocals and I only marginally less hate recording guitar. Today I managed four vocal takes each for three songs. Hopefully, some of it’s usable. Here’s a photo I took earlier to try and convey the sense of boredom and despair I feel when recording. Instead it sort of looks like some Wall-E-esque home studio character:

In other news, the band played a pretty decent gig in Bournemouth recently. Naomi couldn’t make it, so Jon stepped in on bass. We didn’t have a chance to rehearse so we went straight up on stage and just plowed through a six song set (including two new songs) and winged it. On the night I was satisfied but not over the moon. Watching the video back, we were so much tighter than I thought. Makes me wonder how good we could be if we can nail down a solid lineup and get gigging/rehearsing regularly. Mad props (as the youth would say) to Johnny and Jon for being solid enough musicians that they were able to just jump right in from cold. Also, it was great to see so many friendly faces and we oddly had the biggest audience of the night, despite being the out of town opening act. Huge thanks to Paul, Hannah, Liam, Dean, Georgia and the one and only Poet Hi-Ho for coming out and to any of the other people who saw us and didn’t run off to the beer garden. A few new people signed the mailing list. As usual though, I can’t read their handwriting all that well. D’oh!

Lastly, I’m still looking for a bass player. London based. So if you know anyone, email me – adam-at-adamboucher.com. There must be someone out there? Preferably willing to commit to regular gigs/practice and hopefully recording and ideally someone who already plays bass. But don’t let that put you off getting in touch if you’re willing to give bass a shot.