Aaaaah. It's the Bee Gees. Being murdered.

Had band members Michael Kirkland and Ben Woollacott round to do some recording yesterday. We had a lot of fun putting down three part harmonies on a few tracks for the new album. I guess we thought we were being the Beatles on 'Because' or The Beach Boys on 'Pet Sounds' but listening back like we were being more like the Bee Gees really, only sans medallions and sexy outfits and being murdered.

You can watch the quite amusing results here. First you hear the ungodly sound of us singing alone at the start of the video, and then at the end you'll get to hear the track with all our ahem, bits put together.

Chris Singleton, Ben Woollacott and Michael Kirkland attempt to sing some very high notes on a track called 'This Stuff'.

Recording keyboard parts with Michael Kirkland

Here is a clip from a new track I'm working on, This Stuff. Michael is playing my weird old keyboard from (I think) the early 80s. An 'Orla'. It makes a lot of farty noises but every now and then you can coax something rather nice out of it.

Anyhoo, enjoy - video below.

Recording session for Chris Singleton's third album - this time, we whip an organ out for a track called 'This Stuff'.

Saxophones in the studio

A lot of instruments, including some fairly obscure ones, have ended up on my recordings. But one instrument that hasn't (somewhat surprisingly) is the saxophone. So imagine my delight when it turns out that my good friend and fellow Hackney-ite Michael Kirkland turns out to be a very soulful sax player. Had to have him round to blow some notes all over some of my new stuff.

Do take a listen at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9SgzrQUW_M (or if you're via player below).

Michael Kirkland records saxophone on Chris Singleton's "Baby's in the Band" track, resulting in a quite Lennonesque "Walls and Bridges" era sound.