microwave spaghetti

At the moment were in the middle of making our next EP, just finished a week of tracking and waiting to put the final touches on over the next few weeks.

I think we've started to accept my theory of songwriting that the first idea to come out of your head is most often the best. With some of the new songs we turned ourselves inside out trying to improve them in some way but in the end returned to the original form... there's a certain honesty in the first draft that you can't quite put fingers on.

Our producer didn't disappoint either, we spent most of the time in the studio deciding which of the 20+ guitars to use. (I ended up using the cheapest instruments in the studio instead of the '61 jazzmaster once borrowed by thursten moore or the '63 one that johnny marr wanted to buy). We all recently got a bunch of new guitars too which we're pretty happy with and they made their way onto the record too...

Ricky-lee from australian idol was doing a new single in the studio next door with t-pain or flo rida or someone, sounded so fresh.

Kerridge wore a suede jacket and elvis sunglasses and sang on a few tracks.

   

hair extensions, meth and the plaza

Spent the weekend doing some more interstate shows with Wolf & Cub, this time in melbourne and adelaide... Reinforced to ourselves that 12 hours of waiting around isn't that great when you're staying at a 1/2 star hotel that smells like soap. 

All this time hanging around in adelaide gave us a chance to stroll hindley st discussing the finer points of life, like the effects of a meth habit on the weight of our cab driver (he claims 270kg, later reduced to 250). Kerridge picked up a nice 70c hair accessory from a variety store, i think it helped to increase our cred on the street, that and me making all calls on a hands free earpiece.

The hairpiece had quite a bit of buzz around adelaide but sadly it didn't translate when we got back home...

We've finished pre production for the next EP and are in the studio next wednesday to start a week of recording. Its just occurred to me that all the tracks we've chosen are about bad relationships... hadn't recognised this recent pessimism until now but i think it works well because the music is quite the opposite. Maybe the title of the record will be a nod to the divergence of lyrical and musical moods, or maybe The Holidays II if we could be lazy enough. Doubtful.

goodbye

Welcome!

Hello there, welcome to our blog. 

Whenever I'm on a computer it always feels like I should be checking something, and if there's nothing interesting emailwise it was always a good feeling to see what people are saying on your myspace and if you're lucky accept some friend requests with nice messages attached. But myspace, whilst being a particularly beneficial phenomenon for bands in the last few years, is a bit annoying and also kind of dying. 

We don't really like writing anything on our myspace page either because it gets lost amongst all the shit that happens on screen and it always seems like you're trying to sell something (we're not in it for money... i swear). So we've decided to kill two birds with one blog and marry our love for talking rubbish with the hope that some people somewhere like our music and would like to read about what we do...

So anyways, at this point in time The Holidays have released one record that amused radio announcers with the its triple name score, 'Holiday' by The Holidays off their EP The Holidays, and are now working on the next installment; another EP, probably 5 tracks or so to be recorded in just a few weeks time at home in sydney. Its exciting and I find studios are a bit like a holiday themselves, and you have so many voices and ideas that in the end you make decisions depending on what you had for lunch at 5 in the afternoon. This studio has one of our favourite japanese places across the road so it looks like soft shell crab will be producing this album.

We're about to play a bunch of shows all over the country in the next few months too so we'll keep posting as often as wireless hotspots and mondayitis allow.

Aspirat primo Fortuna labori

~The Holidays