Things that happened in January...

Hi folks,

I failed to keep a recording diary in December - I clearly overlooked the amount of time and effort recording would take and at the end of each night I just wanted sleep! Recording the way I'd always dreamed of was more nerve-wracking than expected. Everyone had to be perfect at the same time for a take to be useable! After the honeymoon period of the first two days setting up and sound-checking (whilst getting quite drunk) we settled into the hard work and I'm sure it was four solid days before we were perfectly happy with a performance of a song!

Still, we were only aiming to get enough material for a short EP as a debut release and that has gone as well as we could have hoped. We've been doing lots of over-dub and vocal sessions throughout January (as much as we could fit in without having to quit our jobs) and later on this evening I'm heading back in to Metway Studios to do some final tidying up before we send the tracks off to be mixed next week. We've been to hell and back but I'm starting to feel really pleased with what we did.

You can see some photographs from the sessions on our facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/fragilecreaturesuk

We've also performed two live shows in Janauary. The first was for The Bleeding Hearts Club on January 9th at The Albert. We got a bit of a mention in this blog:
http://brightonmusicblog.wordpress.com/2012/01/10/bleeding-hearts-club/

This write up had a bit of a mixed reception in Fragile Creatures camp. I, however, fondly recall dancing to Prefab Sprout's 'The King of Rock'n'Roll' and Simple Minds' 'Don't You Forget About Me' in many an 80's club night, so I can't be offended by the comparison! I really enjoyed 'The Men Who Fell To Earth' who also played, who seem to be a new band born from the ashes of The Hornblower Brothers. Our set was:

1. Fragile Creatures
2. Dear Michael
3. Stowaways
4. End Of The World (For Two)
5. She Makes Me Nervous
6. Strong Enough

On Monday evening (30th of Jan) we played another show, this time at The Latest Music Bar (which many still affectionately call the Jooglebury). We were a bit confused about stagetimes and thought we would be on somewhere in the mniddle of a large bill, but, probably as we were the only band with a full drum kit and all the trimmings, we ended up going on last and quite late! I won't mention everyone we played with but KATE (who we performed with at one of our water-testing acoustic shows last year) were excellent, great songs, refreshing instrumentation and lovely harmonies... personally my favourite of the set was their first song. All We Are were an interesting proposition, a three piece with the main vocalist playing stood up playing half a drum kit, lovely sounds and some memorable songs, but I wasn't to keen on their slowed down version of Chris Isaac's 'Wicked Games'. Our set here was:

1. Fragile Creatures
2. Stowaways
3. End Of The World (For Two)
4. This Strange Dance
5. She Makes Me Nervous
6. Strong Enough
7. Into The Night

The audio from the event was streamed live by 4thepeoplemedia, with over 300 people logging in globally to check it out (large clutches in New York State and Eastern Europe apparently). There were also some photos and video shot on the night, so maybe we'll see some of that emerge.

Over and out,

Adam