The words of the wonderful world of Butterfly Polite
R.E.S.P.E.C.T.E.T.C.
Quite a different beast from the recorded version on TheMessWeMade. Mostly it involves five sevenths of the band doing an impromptu version on John Cage’s 4:33 whilst Sarah and Andy struggle on, then everyone leaping in for the finale like the goal hanging glory stealers they are. The references to Aretha Franklin and Shania Twain [...]
Unnatural Selection
Ironically dubbed ‘the hit’ within the band, this is great fun to play and pretty much always features in the live sets. It features on the Bursting Bubbles EP and utterly fails to credit Dan for his playing on it. Consider this remedied here.
Personnel: Dan plays djembe, and other percussion, Sarah sings and plays [...]
Whilst recrording the ‘new material’ we took the opportunity to run through a few ‘oldies’, and offer you them now gratis. The spirit of the season has obviously overwhelmed us, and generosity is oozing from our ever pore.
These songs give a reasonable idea of what we’re about, and what we sound like when we’re live [...]
The mixing of songs is going swimmingly. Insofar as I have been doing it in my speedos. I have also been tinkering more with surround sound mixes, and I am on a one-man crusade to bring the rest of the world to my way of thinking. On everything really, but specifically on the subject of [...]
Day Four
A typical day in the studio caught on camera. Nothing out of the ordinary here. Butterflypolite must be the classyist band in the shire. (Videos coming soon)
Food: Bagels
Wobblies thrown: 0
Day Five
Hmmm…some people got today off.
Food: I had a sandwich
Day Six
A brand new song ooooOOOOooooooh. This one could be good.
Food: Sausages
Casualties: My neck after falling [...]
Days one, two and three of recording.
Cor blimey, there are a lot of people in Butterflypolite. Setting up to record is a job in itself. This set of recordings are being made basically ‘live’ with some overdubs later. This effectively means lots of microphones, lots of leads and lots of takes.
After two [...]