Hey all
Above is my 2nd design idea for the album front and back cover, there are 2 variations, 1 with the logo on the cover and one without which is below. Let us know what you think either here on wordpress or on our myspace and facebook profiles
http://www.myspace.com/dearacetate
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dear-Acetate/7544908125
Have a good week
Marc xx
Hello lovely readers, Rob here updating you on another week in the life of Dear Acetate.
Where to start?! The past week has been pretty darn sweet. We allowed Shane the deserved luxury of a breather from mixing the debut album, so off he went back to the land of his fathers for the Oxygen Festival, where he rocked out to The Mars Volta, Blur and many more. Do not fear, he’s back in the studio slogging away to get the final mixes for all the songs in order, and has got it all sounding immense!
Jealous of his festival-going antics, Stee J, Marc and myself took matters into our own hands and set about seeing as many top bands as we could in a few days. Monday 13th saw us at Somerset House to see The Mars Volta who blew us away with 2 hours of amazing prog rock. I think we are all in agreement that Thomas Pridgen is the best drummer we’ve ever seen (aside from Shane of course), so it really was a breath-taking performance.
And as if that was not enough, we went to see Jane’s Addiction AND Nine Inch Nails at the O2 Arena on Wednesday. It was supposedly NIN’s last ever headline UK show, so we simply had to be there and got lucky on ebay. Stee J is a massive Jane’s Addiction fan so that was top for him, but Marc and I could not get enough of NIN – a massive musical assault on our eyes and ears. They even got Gary Numan on stage for a couple of songs, including his smash hit Cars, which ensured that the crowd went absolutely friggin’ mental. Amazing show, can’t believe we might never see them live again.
Marc and I have been working on demos for a few new songs and previewing them to the other guys. These are songs that hopefully the others will like and we can start incorporating them into our live sets, and maybe they’ll eventually get recorded for the 2nd album (we’re trying not to get too ahead of ourselves!). We thought it might be cool for you to see how we go about the songwriting process, so have uploaded one of the demos, Heads Will Roll, onto YouTube for you to listen to. Simply visit www.youtube.com/dearacetate to see the demo, and a load of other stuff! Do let us know what you think. Basically, we spend a few hours in Marc’s bedroom recording this kind of thing, then will get together with Stee J to work through ideas for the vocals. If we think it’s good enough, the track will then be brought to a full band rehearsal, where we can thrash it out. We’re quite excited about this one though.
So that is it for another week. If you haven’t already, do please check out the photos on the MySpace from our recent photo shoot, we’d love to know your thoughts. We’re thinking of using a few for the album artwork, so let us know if you think it works!
Much love from the band.
Rob x
Rob, Sonny, Jack, Stee and Shane check out some of the shots taken
Hey Friends
We had a photo shoot this week at a golf course of all places, though we were in the woods just behind the golf course. The shoot was a lot of fun and we ended up getting some really cool shots.
Rob and Sonny in the woods
The photos were taken by our mate Jack Watts who use to be in a band with our bassist Sonny. We will be posting the photos once we have selected which ones we like and jack has edited them. In the meantime I have uploaded a few photos of us goofing around between having our pictures taken.
Take care
Marc
