CHAPTER 4... IN PIRATE SPACE!
We continued recording all the backing tracks at the
new Sputnik studio in Somerset during 2000 and it was all coming together...over
the last 2 years... there are as many tracks recorded and discarded as there are
on the CD!...we then went to a studio called Britannia Row in London at
Wandsworth to record the vocals... its a tiny little studio but it just has the
magic and Degville sings great there... his voice has suddenly improved ten fold...
Neals friends Oscar the mad Icelander and John Green who plays
with us live now, helped with additional keyboards... Japanese man Yoshi
let us use Westpoint studios, co owned by some one from Simply Red with
their great digital desk to mix it and our old faithful friend and Sputnuk fan,
the brilliant Michael Zimmerling (again!) engineered...the sleeve skull
was designed in Argentina, the new logo in the USA, the graphics in Switzerland...
people emailed me the parts... global.
We continued playing the tracks live and it's amazing... the vibe at the
gigs is so great now... where as before it was like a war, now its a
celebration, people love the news songs as much as the old songs, they've become
Sputnik classics, Everybody Loves You, Slave Trade and the others.....
Well its years down the cyberspace line now... we've finally finished the new
album. and a pre release version is selling through Sputnikworld and the
reaction has been fantastic...
I want to thank everyone who helped us...we did deals everywhere... begged
and borrowed... people who loved us let us use unbelievable studios for
free... its as if suddenly there was this whole community of people out there
who said to me... you know Tony we love Sputnik... we want to help you make this
work, people who said they wouldn't have started in this business if it wasn't
for Sputnik, they lent us computer equipment, gave us their time and faith and
now we have a new CD and sold out shows...
I love the internet - It changed our lives... we are continuing to play gigs
that come in via the net and fans buy tickets via the net... Everything we
have done and achieved has been through the net......... I love it, its the
new underground....... the name of the album, Piratespace, is
because we feel anything is possible in cyberspace... its as if we can go in and
just seize back what is ours and fly the Sputnik flag proudly again...
It's a long way from the star world of number 1 singles and celebrity parties,
but you know.. this time its real, what we intended, no sell out, no
compromise... future rock and roll
Watch it fly...
xxx
written and believed in by Tony James
tj boSSS October 2000
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