Been Busy...

Sorry about the lack of posts lately, I've been too busy to sleep, let alone blog! I had to finish a couple songs (that means recorded, mixed and mastered) for this past weekend, so that Jordan could constantly plug our new myspace page, which features the two songs that I finished by staying up late and getting up early for a week. The reason for the deadline and the forum for the plugs was our show in Seoul on Saturday. Finally, the big city! And not just any big city, one of the biggest in the world. Not the biggest stage in the world, mind you, not even the biggest in Seoul, but that will possibly come later... For now, we settled for the Big Electric Cat, in Itaewon (the foreigner district). Not a bad place, a decent sound system, but it was too loud for anyone's good. Couldn't hear much more than noise. But we diligently played our opening set (an hour, longer than I expected), which means we got our originals all out, plus 2 covers. The Dave Martin Band (the Speakeasy's house band) was the headlining band and, regretfully, I missed their show due to Dawn's illness.

So now comes the push before I head to Canada, but we still have a LOT of work to do. We've decided to make this a full length album rather than an EP as was originally planned. This means that instead of the 6 songs we had intended, it has turned into 11. Difficult to do, daunting to say the least, but we should be able to churn this thing out by (and this is NOT a promise) September. Hopefully earlier, but we have a limited amount of time per week, and we have lots to do. But it will be worth it, I can promise that. I also recently took a project from A Fistful of Nice, mastering their new album. Sounds good so far, check them out! I may also get to do some more mixing in the future, so keep your fingers crossed for me, that would be fun.

So what have we been up to besides my vain attempt at a career? Well, good question... Dawn is in negotiations with her school right now, to see how much longer we want to be here, and unfortunately we saw a bunch of friends leave Mokpo for wherever the next step is. What else...

We had our "Cabana Party" a couple weekends ago, which unfortunately was rained out. Abby and Dawn made lots of decorations for the party, including a palm tree in the kitchen, and a Towlie poster advertising the rules for the pool. All in all it was fun, with or without any actual usage of the pool. We did use the pool for about 5 minutes in the rain and wind, but it was so cold we decided to just watch a movie and play a drinking game. Not a bad time actually. We also learned that we have neighbours living in the apartments behind us. And that's about it for now, maybe I'll be able to blog a bit before we head back to Canada on the 16th. Until then, take it easy and thanks for taking the time to read this nonsense!

And visit the new band page while you're at it, in case you missed it earlier. It is:

http://myspace.com/thejordanemmansband