pretty dark but then that session was hardly a chuckle-trousered affair.Īrrived this morning to play the first of two gigs in the lycabetus theatre, which is apparently near the parthenon. i've been listening to alot of the copenhagen tracks and out-takes and the overall sound is great. what has also become evident is that the summer panic that led to two months rehearsal may have been a little premature.or at the very least a little on the hysterical side.there was some good stuff recorded in paris, copenhagen and batsford. there's 'optimistic', there's another which started off as a thom doodle on the 505.there's also the paris version of 'lost at sea'.the batsford 'morning bell'.it is different. they were fantastic.thom and jonny conducted. they are definitely different.there's an eight piece brass ensemble in a charles mingus style on one - eight 'jazzers' came down for the day and blew their stuff all over 'everyone - the national anthem'. this has been our life for the last five weeks - we had a list of about ten songs which was then further narrowed down to six. which means that we have actually finished six or so tracks. we're in london at present and nigel is mixing he has been for three days. it's easy to get extremely self-conscious doing this. then there have been a couple of 'essays' written whilst stoned late at night, only to be re-read the next morning. i've tried to write something about what we've been doing in the last five weeks - there have been the day-by-day accounts which have been of the 'we did this and then we did that' variety.all incredibly boring to read.
Undated (mid-november 1999), posted on december 1st 1999
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