Pockets Filled With Matches. Pockets Filled With Matches.

First gig of the year*; Pockets Filled With Matches, recording a demo before they blow £250 big ones on a Proper Recording at 2-Fly. Good call, new band, practice run is always good so's Alan doesn't have to spend hours covering up your problems.

This lot are fucking shouty and atonal, it's a great racket. Paul their guitarist is a legend and presuming he can stop sound engineers fucking with his sound just cos he's 18, all will be well. My favourite's Spazz-Maths and it came out best too - think I prefer it to the 2Fly version, cos the vocals degenerate into static at the end, which is ace (Elie's idea). But the room was a bit boxy-sounding and the PZMs I used on the drum overheads didn't help. Nic Scarlet: "Sounds great, really garagey". Yep.

Reference materials: Pretty Girls Make Graves
Where: Elie and Paul's front room
When: 12-13 January 2008
Songs: 4: Spazz-Maths, Dictatorphone, Thumbscrews, City Bright Lights.
Charge: £40 + beer
Links: Match Myspace - 2Fly final products on 2 songs, don't bother with the proper website it's a placeholder.


*Incidentally, I've been doing on-and-off recording for people for years, just never properly put a name to it until about a year ago. Will probably put up some old stuff later.  ¶ 6:59 PM