Butterfly Polite’s Little Bit Of Blog

I have been listening through the acoustic tracks for the forthcoming release.  There is something very strange about listening to something you have made so critically - even above and beyond the initial ‘is that what I sound like?’ - there is the fact that a recording of us playing live suddenly becomes a … thing set in stone.  It becomes how some people will judge us.  Seeing artists ‘really live in the flesh’ is very different to ‘live on record’, as anyone who has heard The Who Live At Leeds will attest.  An actually recording is generally not good enough, so for a released version some degree of (transparent) tweaking and fixing is expected.  Is this cheating?  Probably.  But it lifts the released live albums above the bootlegs.

On some level, live albums, to a certain extent are the worst of both worlds.  Neither the care and attention to detail that a studio album allows, nor the atmosphere of actually being at the gig.

I am hoping to buck this trend and make a live-ish album that has the good bits of both.  Wish me luck.