Redpoint

Remixing

2006-04-15T09:42:00.000+01:00

Been quiet for a while, soz. We're remixing a few tracks from Protect & Survive to make available as full downloads. There's also now a MySpace Redpoint page with full versions of four P&S tunes. The plan is to pimp around the remixed tracks and cook up a bit of interest in the album. As ever, though, the pace is glacial. Stupid work and domestic commitments...

Started new material

2006-01-08T19:47:00.000Z

Just knocked up a few tracks for a new EP to be finished later this year. We want to do something more upbeat - ideally as a mix that begins in a fairly ambient way and cranks up to a decidedly banging finale. One of the new tunes, 'Permafrost', is sort of Autechre meets Ennio Morricone. Oooh, yes.

Protect & Survive release readied for sometime in March. I've sent the album to our stalkee/buddy Ulrich Schnauss who's already e-mailed back saying he's looking forward to receiving it. If he likes it, we're gonna push for a support slot the next time he comes to the UK. Towards the end of October 2004, we holed up in a strange little cottage at the edge of Suffolk for a couple of days to do some work on P&S. I'm looking into somewhere closer to home, so we can head off there soonish and hone some kind of live set...

Wrapped...

2005-12-16T16:40:00.000Z

Great fun. Shot in two hours, edited in one.

The bloke who liked to think he was in charge of the shoot was a hectoring tit who got his kicks bullying the 16-year-old runner. We pretty much bypassed him and worked via the Assistant Director who was ace.

Pics above. Film downloadable when I can blag the bandwidth...

Movie shoot

2005-12-15T19:03:00.000Z

Off to make a one-minute film tomorrow at Pinewood. Work-related thing, but I've written a short little surreal/horror story that I'm hoping could be used as a video for a future Redpoint choon that's currently sloshing around my head...

Pic of one of the actresses we're using above.

Woah.

It's done!

2005-12-13T08:16:00.000Z

All the last minute stuff nipped and tucked, now. We have an album. Well, a collection of songs that we like to call an album. The next step is to get a half-decent distributor to agree with us.

One of the reasons we've seen this through - overcoming numerous creative crises, one or two dark 'What's the point?' moments, plenty of travelling and production by e-mail - is that we want as many people as possible to hear the damn thing.

Balls to the old 'We make music for ourselves and if people like it, that's a bonus' cliche. We've invested a lot into this in the hope that people will get an emotional kick out of it.

So, yeah. Sending it out to a select group, this morning... Tiny bit nervous about what they're gonna make of it, but I think we're both pretty sturdy in our belief that it's a strong piece of work with tunes, carefully crafted structure and - yeah - little bits of themes and hidden/muffled treats to discover...

Final mixdown

2005-12-11T18:16:00.000Z

Ian and I are finalising the Protect And Survive album tracks today. It's got to fly, now.