Cool night

Audioscope was great last night :-) Practically every act was a highlight, and playing our set on a decent sized stage was particularly nice.

And of course, hopefully it raised a good amount for Shelter as well. Well done to the Audioscope team for putting all togther!

Here's a few pics

Album launch pics

After much prevarication by yours truly, we now have some album lauch pics on the website, courtesy of Rex Diablo - Thanks!

We've also got something special planned for the video we took at that gig as well - details coming soon...

Truck 10

Truck 10 was lots of fun (even though certain members of Witches were too wimpy to camp). Here are a few pics of my first Truck:


If you were there for our set, thanks for the response - it's great to play, but even better to see that others are enjoying it as well :-)
See if you can find yourself (and add a note) in this one:

Album launch gig a success

The gig went really well, I reckon. Although our set wasn't flawless, we had a really good energy on stage pushing our performance. I think it's the best gig we've done so far (and luckily others have said the same).

Having all three bands playing headline length sets (~45mins) is a good format - so long as you've got good bands, and The Workhouse and Flies Are Spies From Hell were keeping the standard high :-)

I would have jumped about to FASFH a bit more, but my headbanging days are in the past. I think they found some new dancers anyway. Quick pic:


Here's the end of the gig, from my PoV:


We've got audio and video recordings of the whole gig, so we might be able to get a nice live video put together. More on that as it develops...

Oh! bar Camden

Our first London gig was fun. Inevitably a bit disappointing compared to the great gigs we've been having in Oxford, but not a bad start :-)

Flies are Spies from Hell

Wednesday was another sweaty night in The Wheatsheaf, for Russian Circles, with sunnyvale noise sub-element, This Town Needs Guns and Flies are Spies from Hell , but it was worth it :-)

It was a very good night of music, and I'm even happier then before that FASFH are on the bill for our launch gig. Check out the pics:


Oh, and Hi to Jason, Scott, and Tom - hope to see you on the 15th!

Flash! Bang!

More album recording pics

I found some more album recording pics, from June, including a nice (IMHO) shot from the control room as Benek does a take.

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Drum kit

It's been a while since I posted anything - I need to organise my pics - so here's a stitched pic of my drum kit...



Hopefully that's useful for any bands we do kit-share with.

More updates as soon as I get time...

Witches headline for Gappy Tooth at The Wheatsheaf

A great gig on Saturday, with lots of energy and a crowd that were into it - thanks to everyone who came, I really enjoyed it!

The Wheatsheaf was like a sauna again, there must have been a few pounds sweated off by the end of the night :-)

More photos on Flickr, and at GTI.

Album recording 2007-03-30

Here's a lovely pic of most (but not all) of our gear from the main album recording sessions. Follow the link for more photos from the studio.

Notably absent is Benek and his trumpet, because we recorded his parts in another different sesion.

Album recording

Ok, here's the first lot of pics from our recording sessions at Oxford Brookes Uni music rooms - not the first chronologically, but a nice little selection Rich Witch helped me pick out.



This session was the same day as we recorded Putting you Back in the Ground with Umair from Xmas Lights. We were very happy to find that Brookes had a harpsichord we could use :-)

Gig pics

Well, I've not got any of the album recording session photos ready yet, but I do have some photos from our most recent Zodiac gig. Many thanks to Hamayun for taking them :-)