stockholm and dry

thats the end of week one of the sessions. Tonight we say goodbye to Atlantis Studios. Its been a spectacular week, we're all on the proverbial cloud 9 with the results so far, the songs are all sounding pretty amazing, and there is still a week of overdubs to go, and even then it will be a very different sounding beast once its mixed and mastered. So its basically all good. So its with a wee tear in each of our eyes that we are leaving here tonight. Next week we do the overdubs in another studio and then its home, heads down for a few months of live shows and day jobs and then mixing the album in July.

Someone asked if there was a release date set yet, but we haven't got a definite time in mind. It will likely appear from the ether at the start of next year, but you never know, if there is a good wind behind us it may be a little sooner. Whenever it ends up coming out and whichever label it comes out on, we'd like to tell you now, its going to be an absolute wee cracker.

I just turned on my computer to discover that some cheeky scamp from the band has replaced my lovely Doctor Who Timecrash desktop (my first laptop had a lovely 2nd Doctor desktop sitting at the TARDIS console with a 500 year diary and my second had a lovely Daleks vs Cybermen scene from the Battle of Canary Wharf, so it only seemed right that my this one continued the Who related desktop theme) (Timecrash was the wee 10 minute special Steven Moffat wrote where the 10th Doctor meets the 5th Doctor, and how happy am i that Steven Moffat is taking over from Russell T davies after next year (yes folks, its magic news) but i digress) has been replaced by a beautiful picture of ABBA in which they appear to be dressed in tinfoil (i say dressed, half dressed would be a more appropriate description).

In true obscura style, we couldn't help ourselves this evening and posed ABBA style outside of Atlantis for a photo, which we will doubtless stick up on the website/myspace in the next few days.

Cheers, Gav