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Working titles only at this stage, I’m afraid. No real melodies or lyrics completely formed as yet, but core drums-bass-guitars down on the following:

Harvey

Me Caravan

Always Hope

Sharp White Teeth

Saccharine

Zepp

EZ

Neil

Cat & Blackbird

Bombay & Butterfly – my first fingerpicking composition. Certainly not masterful, but easily could be used as an Etude… Inspired by McCartney III.

• Epic (collaboration with The Dixie Narcos, Emily Dolan Davies on drums) – WIP
• Jack/ Pop Song (Collaboration with Emily Dolan Davies)
• Roberta (collaboration with Amaya Levels)
• Old demos yet to be tracked: Check It Out, The Quacking Dog, Go Away)
• Snippets to develop: AS4, AS8

Boring studio news – managed to upgrade to a tube preamp (UA 610) from the already quite good solid state one (UA 110) and that has helped move the whole thing ahead in terms of the overall sound I wanted. I also finally wired the Avantone monitors to the Radio Shack MPA-250 amp so if I can make these sound good on that, it’ll sound good on anything. That combo is as harsh and unforgiving as I ave ever heard.