The Mekano Set

I've had to stop myself from uploading 'Come On, Behave', 'Sadim' and 'Not Face' {the results of the previous weeks recording binge} as they're not quite mixed, but I'm 'dead chuffed' with the way they sound and I can't stop playing them. Beth tends to look at the details but I enjoy the overall picture {and what that really means I'm more reluctant to tidy up mistakes than she is}. They still have all the usual ingredients {distorted vocals, unecessarily loud drums and bass, dismantled guitars} but they seem to be a little more tragic / introspective rather than the usual mix of spite and seedy sex stuff.

It's all a healthy measure of our current mental and physical well beings {or lack of} I'm sure.

In other news, the tracks that people have been downloading off my computer via P2P software are versions of 'Thirst / alias Kathryn Hulme' {a really early pre-Brighton idea} and 'Blue Eyed Christ' {a new idea which, at the moment, is just the product of a one-take jam of white-noise guitar and Joy Division / New Order style bass noodling}. Work in progress in-deedy.

Former pieces of The Mekano Set Nodule and J. Howell are working on a new project known only as 'Shrinking Sixpence'. They will be making their live debut at The Freebutt in february.

By the way, apparently whenever Beth posts to this Blog it never appears. But she really does exist, honestly, ask The Steam Age, who really does exist too {long-term visitors to the Scholtz Vitrine site will have probably figured out by now that not everything that goes on within its virtual walls is entirely real}.

"So come on girl."

Current repeat plays: Ladytron, MC Solaar, Idlewild, Dusty Springfield.