lars for president!

save me is ready! it's a kind of ballad, a sad ballad.
raf has done, once again, a wonderful job.
important news for mankind: david and I finally got our hair cut, sad but true!
My hair is too short, davids is not short enough, haha!
Is this news trivial? yes.
Am I not too cool for writing about my haircut? euhm no.
We watched a brilliant Metallica dvd about the making of their last album: you just got to see this, it's amazing! We especially loved the scene where lars ullrich, the egotripping drummer, goes into a frenzy, shouting 1 word over&over again: FUCK! FUCK FUCK!
god i love this guy! he's a true artist.
We are slowly shifting through our songs in order to choose our first single, which is tough!
Next week we should have picked one!
you'll hear it soon !
jxn

done&ready or almost!

we 've really really truly finished the recording of our album!
it's sure has been one hell of a trip!
3 songs are still waiting to be mixed,
tonight 'Shine' should be done,
tomorrow 'Save Me', and then, believe it or not, raf our mixmaster, is going on a holiday for a week,
that means the last song will probably be mixed in 1 and a half weeks,
in the meantime we're already thinking about the choice of our first single!
and ofcourse: the liveshows!
and the artwork of the album!
but before all that, our stuff has to be mastered before the release, maybe in london, maybe in paris, maybe in brussels...
more about that soon!
see ya,
jxn

troubles & fights

now recording our last song! Yes!
clouds of smoke is the last one...

Don't let me down almost finished.
message to david: beware of the dead dog!


we got a visit from sarah b. and tom kestensakalalalover today,
which was nice! They looked amazingly healthy, happy & sunburned, and most of all, fit
as a fiddle, unlike us tired dogs.

Sang along with 'troubles and fights' on the radio
groovy!

jxn

troubles & fights

now recording our last song! Yes!
clouds of smoke is the last one...

Don't let me down almost finished.
message to david: beware of the dead dog!


we got a visit from sarah b. and tom kestensakalalalover today,
which was nice! They looked amazingly healthy, happy & sunburned, and most of all, fit
as a fiddle, unlike us tired dogs.

Sang along with 'troubles and fights' on the radio
groovy!

jxn

freakzzz

freaks is ready! woohoow!
now working on shine, last recordings
we only got a couple more days
david is trying to tune his guitar as i write this
somehow he finds it rather difficult to tune his guitar
somehow this is slighly odd for a guitarplayer
but then again,
this is gonna be a slightly odd album
just the way we like it!

cheers,
jxn

654321?

easy way out is done! Asskicking!
recordings of don't let me down are over, now ready to mix.
last night we got to bed by 5 a.m.:
we are trying to work out how many hours of sleep a human being really needs:
6,5,4,3,2,... ?
anyone?

greetings from the shadowlands,
jxn

ps thank you to the sweet ladies who wished me a happy birthday on the forum!

the g-thing

easy way out is ready to mix!
shadowlands is mixed and ready: we are truly amazed by the brilliant result,
alamo does the trick!
some non-musical information:
-on the way home from the studio i stopped for a drunk hitch-hiking lady who told me the story of her unhappy life, interesting but sad,
-david encountered a drunk man lying in the middle of the road, he called the cops but not before he stole his wallet. Just kidding!

Now waiting for the mix of FFWDS/BCKWDS,
recording Don't let me down

It's gonna be a great album, if i may say so myself?

Goulash rulezzz!

jxn

guiiiittaaaarrrrzzzzz

i can hardly find the time to update this blog
unfortunately
we've been working like madmen
recording & mixing at the same time
we gotta be crazy
part of you is also finished: amazing!
recording in progress on Easy Way Out
guitars, more guitars!
quick!
Somebody just told me i've got some solo gigs next week!
very funny...


jxn

gonzoooo

we spent the last 2 days mostly at alamo studio for the mixing of Helping Hand
we can now say our 1st song is done and ready!
helping hand sounds just FANTASTIC!!
it starts off as an edgy groovy rocksong and ends in a sort of anthemlike euhm anthem!
faut le faire!
next on the list: part of you

1 down, 9 to go!

jxn

the unbearable lightness of being

TODAY
IS
MY
BIRTHDAY
!

sing a song
blow a candle
make a wish

...

more pixkkkss

no wonder why it's so damn cold outside, the heating is turned off!

gear & stuff

tree in the studio garden

jxn

rammar

while raf roesems is doing his magic on the mixing of Helping Hand, me and david are working like frikking maniacs on FWDS/BWDS and Shadowlands
yep, recording and mixing at the same time makes a man kind of schizofrenic
if you knowaddimean?
are you talking to me?
am i alone here?

pianos are making us go crazy
pianos are not what they seem

Stan said bawabooliewoobie
we said: damn right dude!

respect the RAM

lights will guide us home
bed needs us
us need bed

jxn

are you ready to sing?

recordings are going nice and steady
vocals on Clouds of smoke
final editing on Helping hand and Part of you
tomorrow we'll start mixing

o yeah: all the best for 2006
may the rock be with you!

jxnxn