CHARLIE STRAIGHT

28/08/07
Back from the studio

Twenty days in a hi-fi wonderland! Maybe we should´ve kept a diary…  Anyway, I´ll write about the most remarkable moments like the day when a couple of younger girls arrived to form a choir. We did a new part of Platonic Johny with them and it turned out to be so much fun! Finally, we were all singing, dancing and laughing – you´ll get the idea once you hear it. Moving on, have you ever seen a Japanese violist play table tennis with her girlfriend (violinist) both wearing high heels, holding the paddles in their upside down fashion? It´s good they gave us their original candies when the string quartet finished.

We stayed just above the recording room, so it awfully tempting for us to climb down the stairs and jam into the night. Upstairs there were two or three rooms for us to sleep in, another one stuffed with drumsets and guitars, plus a quite comfortable living room. Every morning, one of us had to go and buy something to eat. Then we´d indulge a nice cup of tea and have breakfast. ´Round ten o´clock, a black iron door would normally swing open and two guys from the studio would be setting up the equipment. At noon comes lunch and at night, a short walk to a nearby pub. Once, we met a real stranger-funny man there, but I´ll tell you more about that later…

We want to play LIVE again! And we will.       

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