Catching Up...

Hello Everyone...

After a succession or really fun and memorable gigs, we've decided to rest for a while although we did have a sort of short practice session last night just to add some songs to Elaine's repertoire... I was feeling really tired, reason enough for me to end the session abruptly...




We focused on songs like "Better View", "Sad Inside", "Something Wrong" and the Eraserheads cover "Light Years"... I can see that Elaine's quite comfortable with these songs... we also did review the two other covers we did during the "Guilty Pleasure" gig...

Speaking of that gig, i guess it was quite an eye opener for me... specially now that i've been having a hard time writing songs... Doing covers is not a bad thing after all... Specially when pattern it to your band's style... This gives me an idea to record all of the covers we do and either release it or just include it as a bonus thing if ever we (Candyaudioline) get to release an album soon... As in really soon...

Here are some of the songs that Candyaudioline has already covered and how we approach the songs:

See See Rider - She Sings Alone (Almost close to the original version)
Cub - Secret Nothings (a bit noisier than that of the original)
My Bloody Valentine - Never Say Goodbye
My Bloody valentine - Nothing Much To Lose
Pixies - Velouria
Pixies - Wave Of Mutilation
Pale Saints - Time Thief
Smashing Pumpkins - Today (We messed this up a bit... kicking off in it's original state then shifting to a reggae-ish stanza, the lounging to a punked-up chorus then Back to it's original state... but we did add a twist to it by a show-band type 2 bar solo of each instrument then turning full-on ala "My Sherona" jamming session near the end before going back to the original arragement at the end...)
Eraseheads - Light Years (This one we kinda made it our own, incorporating indierock and shoegaze elements with a few grungey moments for good measure)
Peter Bjorn and John - Young Folks (we added song Noisy Guitars to it)
4 Non Blondes - What's Up... (our approach to the instrumental aspect of the song is very much inspired by listening to bands like Slowdive, Fleeting Joys and Malory)...

There you have it... it's almost an albums worth i suppose...

That's that for now...

By the way, the My Bloody Valentine thing last Thursday (Feb. 14) was really a great gig but sadly we had to leave early... wish i could've stayed on just to see Skies of Ember and Sonnet