Wednesday, july 23, 2008

Recorded electric guitar (red Squier Fender Telecaster) for "That's not OK' and 'Home'. Both were played with a slide and in an open 'C' tuning.

monday, july 21, 2008

Recorded some bass and some electric guitar on a new, as yet unnamed track.

saturday, july 19, 2008

Recorded acoustic guitar (red 'Zenith' archtop, 1950, signed by Ivor Marantz) on 'Me' and electric (Ibanez artcore AF85) and acoustic guitar on 'Slow The River'. The acoustic was tuned to an open C# minor.

friday, july 18, 2008

Mark presented his novel 'Martin Martin's on the other side' at the Latitude festival's literature tent.

friday, july 11, 2008

Mark recorded three songs worth of basslines using two basses. One being a custom Squier Precision, the other being a Fender Jazz bass.

The songs were 'Me', 'Slow The River' and 'Globo Electro'

wednesday, july 9, 2008

We listened through to a collection of songs that may make it onto the new album. The suggested release date is for 2009.

Paul presented a construction schematic for the 'new perspextive cube experiment'.

Monday, July 7, 2008

Sketched out guide bass line for 'Me Me Me' which is assuming a very pleasant 1970 Pink Floyd atmosphere with its minor/major key change. Also started looking at a composition from earlier in the year with the working title 'Globo Electro' which is sounding promising.

Saturday, July 6, 2008

Following a long telephone conversation with Paul on Friday evening, Mark starts work on a new song, called 'Hey, Hey, Hey'.

Friday, July 4, 2008

Paul and Steve work on a new track, 'Me Me Me', adding rough guitars and saxophone.

We hear a version of the mastered track 'Bombast'... it sounds good so we will probably use these people to master the whole 'Globo's This Nation's Saving Grace Experiment'.

Tuesday, July 1, 2008

Globo's version of Beautiful World delivered to Rev Toth in Akron in readiness for the NNBBM compilation, due for an August release.

Friday, june 27, 2008

The track 'Bombast' from 'Globo's This Nation's Saving Grace Experiment' was played on the BBC's 'BBC Norfolk Introducing'.

Thursday, june 26, 2008

Paul produces a loose storyboard for the revised version of 'Concorde Again' animation.

Steve begins the animation process...

Friday, june 20, 2008

Bass added to 'Independent Music Enthusiast', acoustic guitar and vocals added to 'Concorde Again'. Listened through to 'Hope and Glory'.

Thursday, june 19

Acoustic guitar, high vocals and sultry vocals were added to 'Stop the Scientists'. We listened through to several updated string sounds on tracks in progress.

Wednesday, june 18, 2008

Kaoru's vocals for 'Beautiful World' have been recorded. The session involved much 'method' singing, the results are very impressive indeed. The track is now ready for mixing and will be delivered easily by the end of June deadline.

Friday, june 13, 2008

Recorded guitar tracks for 'Beautiful World' and 'Stop the Scientists' plus bass and guitar tracks for a 'new' as yet unnamed piece.

Wednesday, june 12, 2008

Writing melodica and guitar parts for 'Stop the Scientists' at worldnet.

Monday, June 10, 2008

Paul says:

1. Beautiful world - need to do Vox with Kaoru - (needs to be next week)
2. Stop the scientists 2008 - approaching completion at worldnet, lovely
3. Hope and Glory 2008 - with fucking string section at worldnet, coming on I think
4. Concorde again (never give up till the fight is won) at CME, now has lovely Georgie vox - she liked her vox also and its sweeter and more tuneful than ever - I will email Native Hipsters about it when complete maybe even justify a little more complexity in the animation (a few frames of handbags, shopping basket, dress prints and a thin lady walking down)

Other news

My headphones turned up in a Mac carrier Am making 12 CDs of fall promo (need some for Anne, Emma and Bearsuit - will do asap) Must admit has been good getting back to worldnet, combining what we now know with the old S3200 and outboard keys like the juno does give even more of a quality (very boring loading the S3200 - yes Ive said it, S3200 and boring - but its still a lovely old beast and works nice with all the newer sounds)

Tuesday, June 3, 2008

Steve programmed guitar sounds for the Globo version of Beautiful World

Sunday, June 1, 2008

Basic structure laid down for the first Motorik track; 'Beautiful World', our contribution to the Devo compilation album 'Not Necessarily Beautiful But Mutated' is well in hand and waiting for guitars.

Friday, May 23, 2008

Steve trawled through a huge pile of DV tape cataloging and capturing footage, some to be displayed on this site, some to be sold in the shop and a great deal of which to be hidden for at least another ten years to protect the reputations of those involved.

Monday, May 19, 2008

Mark and Paul started work on the Globo version of Beautiful World for the Devo NNBBM project.

Saturday, May 17, 2008

A version of Globo's 'Onward', the b-side of our first single 'Beautiful Feeling', was played during the BBC1 show Comedy Map of Britain tonight. In 1995, we re-wrote this tune when asked to provide music for the BBC2 comedy show Lee & Herring's Fist of Fun. We also played live at the show's launch party.

"Fist of Fun's theme music is indeed the B-side of Globo's 'Beautiful Feeling', but they have re-mixed it for us, and done all the incidental music and stings. They have a new album out called "Pro-War" which is good. Their live shows represent the kind of info-overload we wanted, plus they are nice blokes. Stew says: "I really like guitary moany music, to be honest, no technical stuff, but we didn't want to have some cool indie band do the sound-track so we'd look like hopelessly out of date twats in about 2 months time. Globo's stuff sounds kind of efficient and grown up and outside fashion."
Quote from: www.fistoffun.net/pressarticles/questions1.htm

Saturday, May 17, 2008

Agreed with the Rev Toth Wilder to contribute a version of Beautiful World to the Devo Not Necessarily Beautiful But Mutated project.

Friday May 16, 2008

Meeting with manager Ian Johnson to discuss the terms under which we may release the 'Globo's This Nation's Saving Grace' album. Paul was unable to attend (he was visiting Duxford War Memorial with a friend).

Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Mark began work on the first Motorik Experiment track.

saturday, May 10, 2008

Yesterday, we attended a conference about The Fall at the University of Salford. In the evening, we presented our This Nation's Saving Grace experiment in a pub in Salford. We met lots of interesting people, including Grant Showbiz, who produced a lot of Fall records, and Mark E. Smith's mum and two sisters.

MES himself was present via a phone call taken by Grant Showbiz while he was on stage talking about his work with The Fall.

There was controversy when Mick Middles spoke about his relationship with MES and an irate MES sister loudly took him to task about some missing family pictures. It was very tense and made us very nervous about showing our film about our version of This Nation's Saving Grace.

We spoke to both sisters and MES's mother afterwards, and they were very nice to us. We waved them goodbye when they left in their taxi at about midnight. It was a memorable night.

Thursday, May 08, 2008

We are going to Manchester tonight for tomorrow's conference about The Fall at the Universtiy of Salford. We have been invited to present our new project, Globo's This Nation's Saving Grace. We have re-created this Fall masterpiece track-by-track with vocal contributions from friends like Bearsuit and Telemark. The album is due for a September release, but snippets will be emerging soon. There is also a short information film which we will be showing in Manchester and will soon be available to viewing online. Extra clever people may be able to track down the film already, but we will be announcing the link to it shortly.