Scenes from the Studio - Day 1

Added on 13 February 2009

Day One in the studio done and dusted. A successful day, five songs in the bag. Rock God-dom awaits. The current thinking is to lose the name The Solomon Grundys, and instead of going with the bar mitzvah sounding Solomon Green to use the full title The Strange Case of Solomon Green as the band name...

The Songs Of The Solomon Grundys

Added on 11 February 2009

Thursday 12th February - recording studio day. Normal blogging service will resume in the near future... This week sees the Solomon Grundys make their first visit to the recording studio. We're going for a stripped down, early Dylan kind of sound. Acoustic guitars, banjo, bit of harmonica, bit of bo...

The Return of The Solomon Grundys

Added on 10 February 2009

And so we come at last to the great recording studio session of our times... I labour under the illusion that I'm as able a songwriter as I am a novelist. Perhaps that just means I'm not very good at either. Since I write books for a living, and have an agent and all that goes with it, that makes me...

Sporting Catastrophe

Added on 09 February 2009

Sporting heartache for Two of Two at the weekend. He and his team were playing in the final of some Warsaw indoor football competition. A twenty minute game, which they'd had four weeks to prepare for as the semi-final was back in January. As ever the nuns were in attendance, and worryingly for our ...

The Barber Surgeon's Hairshirt

Added on 06 February 2009

The Final Cut is done for the moment, and safely in the hands of that editorial velociraptor, TPCKAM. Have moved on to editing The Cutting Edge of Barney Thomson, with the intention of re-releasing it at some point this year as The Barber Surgeon's Hairshirt, to tie in with the already re-released f...