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Preview debut LP tracks!

4 August, 2011 Joe Leave a comment

Hi Everyone.

Today I can’t sit still with excitement.. we’ve got board mixes of the final edits back from producer James. These are for our debut LP, “The Tired And The Stunned”

We recorded it over various sessions at Furnace, Bulgaria; Abbey Road, UK; and Valley, UK. We plan to mix in Aug / Sept, begin to release free tracks / singles this year and have the LP out in Feb 2012.

Would you like to have a listen? Drop me a line at joe@lonelyjoeparker.com … What do you think? Which are your favourite tracks / moments? I want to pick out a 4-song sampler and snippets for a 2min ‘best bits’ reel. Please favourite or comment on the tracks (click on the blue comment bar underneath each waveform.)

And: Thanks very much for your time!
Joe x x

**Tracklisting (rough):
Side A

1. Brooklyn
2. Buttercup
3. Dum Di Dumm
4. Dead Man’s Pen
5. Amber
6. Sherrine!

Side B

7. Slurry Jamaica Rum Night
8. Barney’s Bathroom
9. Points
10. Quiet
11. Number Nine
12. Learn Yr Lesson

**Credits
Recorded at Furnace Studios, Bulgaria / Abbey Road, UK / Valley Studios, UK.
Engineered by Thomas Joseph / James Ewers / Ben Startup.
Produced by James Ewers.
Copyright Joe Parker, 2011. All rights reserved. All songs written by Joe Parker. Please email joe@lonelyjoeparker.com for all licensing / synch enquiries.

Musicians:

Vocals / guitar: Lonely Joe Parker
Drums / vocals: Dave Wade Brown
Guitar / vocals: David Miatt
Bass: Jimmy Hatherley
Trombone: Chris Alcock
Keys: Michael Anderson

Additional vocals: Emma Richardson, James Ewers, Jimmy Hatherley, Chris Alcock, Campbell Austin, Todd Higgs.
Additional bass: Joe Parker, James Ewers
Additional piano: Dave Wade-Brown
Balafon: Joe Parker

With thanks to: Sotones Music Co-op, Grant Dawson, Rysia Burmicz, Katy Ledger, Nathalie Robins, Jamie Jackson, Jimmy Shivers, Dan Parry, Ed Caruso, Daisy Bowman, Tom Sleeman.

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Recording.. aftermath

31 March, 2011 Joe 1 Comment

A pile of music gear — 54kg WizzAir luggage really worked against us at 3AM. Thanks, TfL

So…

1 producer,
2 engineers,
3 countries,
4 animals/toddlers,
5 musicians plus a Katy and a Rysia,
12 days,
15 tracks,
32 transfers and
countless bottles of Shumenska (cheap Bulgarian Beer)

later, we’ve finally finished tracking what will end up as my debut LP. It will be an incredible record with some unbelievably good songs played by amazing musicians sounding great and some gifted production…

If it seems strange reading that, well, it’s weirder typing those words, believe me. But that really is what’s happened, somehow. We’ve come so far in a few months from the midnight scribbles, to the 3am jams and demos, to the rehearsals, the fire and the fury in the studio. Listening back to the very, very rough tracks I can’t come to any other conclusion: this record is REALLY good.

I think I’m only able to write that without cringing because so many other people other than me have taken this project on now. Tom and Rysia have built an amazing complex out there at Furnace Studios, and he and Ben Startup of Valley got some wicked lush sounds. While with every passing day we’ve got more and more excited about the production James Ewers is injecting into the record.

There were some blood and guts on the studio floor but James got some incredible performances out of Dave Wade Brown and Dave Miatt (TT), I think it sounds to me like the guitar of Dave’s life. On the last day he sat there nailing take after take for 30 hours straight, while Dave WB’s perfectionism/power/passion on the skins actually scared me. Jimmy Hatherley and Mike Anderson also did really well to get their heads round the material so quickly. Even Startup got on the credits!

I think you’ll be surprised in the extreme by the tracklisting, so we’ll keep that under wraps for now, but we should be releasing an EP of the Falmouth stuff ASAP, then tracks from these sessions (including the odd Hicks remix) later in the Summer. Not sure when the whole LP’s gonna be done. There’s some bits and bobs left to do (string, brass, harp, BVs) before the main vocals but we’re basically there. Shock.

More to come including a (late) diary (sorry, slow internet + busy actually doing the job when we were out there). Bye for now x x

PS: We’ve got some dates coming up, might turn them into a minitour if we can bolt on London and Bristol either side:

April 29th Secret gig, Laines, Brighton (email for deets)
April 30th Sotones Spring Social, Hobbit, Southampton

PPS: Thanks to Katy very, very, very much for helping us not degenerate (totally) into moon-howling freaks.

More PS: Woke up this morning to find the garden had burst into technicolor while we were away:

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I want to stay in touch with you all… just not on Facebook.

9 February, 2011 Joe 8 Comments

I am leaving facebook for a while*.
It is boring but compulsive, and that is a bad combination of things.
Here’s what I’m doing instead.
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Yes. I’ve had enough, finally.

To get my instant-gratification social-networking rocks off, I’ll keep using twitter to send important ‘ooh, look, I just saw a banana that looks like Woody Harrelson’ updates. If you want to follow that crap see http://www.twitter.com/lonelyjoeparker

For actual communication I’m gonna use letters on this site, just like this one below. You like? I do.

A scanned letter from Lonely Joe Parker, Feb 2011 — I have a pen

So to fling new demos at you I’ll keep using myspace a bit but also soundcloud cos the whole thing’s just… nicer. Like this new demo:

You might have heard that I’m not working for Sotones any more. It was a big wrench, and I still love them all, but I’ve been brewing a really good record for 4 years now, and the time is ripe to go for it.

Recording notes — The LP we are doing has ended up a mixture of new stuff and (ahem) Greatest Hits...

The idea is that I want to concentrate on things I like, those being:

writing,
doing science,
playing,
presenting science
and touring

… and not things I don’t, like

updating facebook
checking facebook
spending entire weeks on facebook

So the plan is that Dave Miatt, Dave Wade-Brown, Michael Anderson and me (plus a couple of special guests) are going to go out to Bulgaria in March to record an album at Furnace Studios…

We’re doing a lot of pre-production on this one, even though most of the songs are fully written because it’s basically gonna be, in Davo’s words “a Joe Parker greatest hits, yeah? Done really well, really.. right! Isn’t that what people wanna hear?!”

We’re down to a shortlist of just 30 songs now, which includes faves like Number Nine, Brooklyn and Stutter but also new ones like Sherine!, Barny’s Bathroom and really new one Dead Man’s Pen (listen above or on Soundcloud). NO, Liz – Spanish Girls is not on the list!!!

When we get back we’ve got about a month to mix it. Some will be done by us, some by friends (Parry etc) and also remixed (paging rude_NHS and Ed Hix now..) and there’s going to be a few sprinkles of production magic courtesy of the brilliant James Ewers (My Luminaries.)

It depends on how the sessions go, but the likely plan is we’ll do a couple of free tracks and a single over the summer (anyone up for a 7″?) with some gigs then aim to get the LP out about October in time for all your crimbo stockings.

But we gotta get there first – so there’s pageloads of arranging and rehearsing to do for now! Will be bunging new tracks up on Soundcloud – updates about that on this site and also twitter if you want to follow us on our little journey…

In the meantime we’ve got a couple of gigs before we go:

Sat 12th Feb
SeeSound.co.uk showcase, Alleycat, 4 Denmark St, Soho WC2H 8LP. Deets here – doors 4-11pm — SET TIME 8pm
Thurs 3rd Mar
Soton Unstaged, Southampton. Oxfam Music Stage (TBC – check here for full details)

Listening a lot to Black Hearted Love at the moment (PJH/John Parish). Looking forward to her new album, too…

Well. Thats enough from me, so see you soon and thanks for leaving the warm blue safety of Facebook and coming over to mine for a bit.Hope you enjoyed it, come back soon!

Joe xxx

*Okay… I’ll still put gig listings up there, and let you know when the LP’s done and records are coming out…
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