Rock n Roll Angel's album recording

We've had to push the date of our album launch back a week to Saturday 24th March.  Venue and timings exactly the same (St Michael and All Angels, Windmill Hill, Doors 7:30pm) - just a week later so please don't turn up on March 17th!! The extra time will enable us to get the CD mixed and mastered properly. We really hope you can all still make it! The overdubs have been pressing ahead with great success - see below for pictures (clockwise from top left) Tobias, our engineer, records Pete Judge (trumpet);  Sophie Cowley (flute) recording at home with Shaun McCrindle;  Pete Webber (slide guitar); Pete Judge (trumpet) All Bristol based musicians that we are thrilled to have contributing their skills to our record. Tobias and Pete Judge Sophie Cowley Pete Judge Pete Webber Rock n Roll Angels would like to thank Arts Council England for their financial support of this project, dBs Productions in Bristol and St Michaels and All Angel church and congreg

Shaun gets his breath after a particularly high vocal overdub. Adding a bit of sparkle… And so we move onto what is commonly referred to as 'overdubs'… It's been six weeks since we recorded the basic tracks for our album at St Michael and All Angels Church on Windmill Hill, Bristol; time has flown. We've gone through all of the sixty (yes! count 'em...) individual takes we recorded over the two days. The results are in…and we have our 10 final songs.  So now, we are adding the finishing touches/ embellishments to each track to try and make them 'sing' that little bit louder. Such sonic polishing involves Shaun and I cramming into a small recording booth in a studio in central Bristol on a rainy Sunday in January. Rock n Roll indeed. With headphones on we add falsetto harmonies, triangle parts, cowbell rhythms, finger clicks and hand claps. It all takes time: "Was that any good?"; "I think you can do it better…"; "One more