Gig: 10/12/1994, Mike Peters, Nottingham HMV store

Day Fifty : Sunday 21st July 2005 George is mixing ‘Zero’ this morning. The track has most of it’s information recorded. It only needs a guitar part from James which gets recorded by lunch time. I am going into London to visit Bobby Troman who first started working for The Alarm back in 1983 on the Stand tour. Bobby is only 42 but recently suffered a huge stroke whilst on [read more]

I’m on merch duties at Leeds the Cockpit. I’ve been to more glamorous places it has to be said 🙂 The band have just hit the stage just as the monitor system decided to crash. This is a nightmare for the band as it becomes such a struggle for the band to hear themselves on stage as they have to rely on the ‘outfront’ sound. I think we’re all feeling [read more]

Day Twenty Six: Monday 27th June 2005 Today, James gets stuck into guitars on ‘Cease and Desist’. It’s sounding great but we are having a few problems with the tuning. A lot of James Stevenson’s guitars are of the vintage variety and come from a variety of eras. Some from the 1950’s (The ‘Golden Age Of Guitars’) but mostly sixties and seventies. They all sound amazing but sometimes are hard [read more]