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So 17 of the masters have gone out via the web, and Dan posted off around 5 or 6 in the post this morning, it'll take like a week or so for all of them to come back, in which time we should be finishing up the final bits of mixing and making the few last changes that we want to make to the songs.

Last week I taught Hicks and Dan how to do the mailouts to everyone on the email list, so the next few times you hear from us, it'll probably come from one of those two. Dan is also finding us live shows at the moment - and we told Hicks to sort something out with a promoter he likes in town but I haven't heard back from him about it, i'll catch up with him soon.

Max.

Veering between ego and insecurity.

Here's an update for you, and some proof that we're back rehearsing after a pretty long time off. This week was like our fourth rehearsal back, so we're pretty much back on top of everything, played all the old songs a couple of times and worked out some stuff for live shows.




So how about the album then? Well, there's progress:

Dan hooked up the information of about 25 mastering companies, and I am sending our current version of "Warm Glows And White Lies" out to them. They'll all master the song, then send them back. By the time they all come back we are hoping to have all the mixing finished (this is gonna be tight, but we will hopefully make it).

As soon as we're done, we send it all off and they master the lot. Meanwhile, I will be frantically trying to finish the artwork.

I am constantly veering between intense pride and an assurance that this is an amazing album and it sounds great and a deep insecurity that the production sucks and I will be found out as a fraud. This is not rational and is messing with my head.

Max.

Finally, some photos on this thing...

Hey, hope you all had a good easter. Back in the studio today, been mixing vocals for a few of the songs.

We went in to the studio on sunday afternoon with three lovely ladies and had them talk about first dates and other things that made them laugh so that their voices could be laid over the middle-8 of a song called Caffeine.

Now that we are officially a pro member of the Flickr community, I have been uploading all the photos from the old gallery up there. There are some old shows missing, but i'll get them up over the next few days.

I also created a new set called "our friends", this is for people we know away from touring and being in a band - I am sure they will all be embarrassed, but I don't think many of them read this site, so we're pretty safe. Here are some shots from our Sunday night:



This is JohnnyB - he deletes your forum posts.



This is one of Dan's sisters - I don't know which one, they are identical twins. They both appear on the artwork for Friends In Name Only.



This is Anna - we have known her for years and despite me asking her to be on the album with just a speaking part, she still refused. We still love her anyway.



This is Paul, he is on the group vocals on the album. He makes us laugh, but he neither owns a computer, nor knows how to look at websites so odds are he will never see this.



This is Lizzie, she is one of the voices in the M8 of caffeine, she was talking about some loser guy, haha!!



This is Cara, another of the voices in the M8 of Caffeine. Yes, she is blurry like this in real life.

Max x

RSS feeds and geeky stuff.

So I'm still getting stuff ready for the new website. In case you haventt had your ear to the ground in the geek fraternity, RSS feeds are the new black and the new site will be using them for pretty much everything. So if you are a bandwagon jumper like myself, below is a handy list of the feeds that we have already set up - these are the definite final addresses so feel free to put them in your readers/whatever it is you use.

If you have no idea what the hell any of that means you have two choices:

1 - You can read about RSS feeds here, and use a reader on the net like these or one for your PC like these (hint: Internet Explorer and Firefox take feeds now).

2 - Ignore this and come back to www.onedaylife.co.uk regularly where all this stuff will be laid out for you to browse through until your heart explodes.

Oh yeah, here are those feed addresses:

Max's Blog: http://feeds.feedburner.com/maxodl
Dans Blog: http://feeds.feedburner.com/danodl
Kev's Blog: http://feeds.feedburner.com/kevodl
ODL Photos: http://feeds.feedburner.com/onedaylifephotos
Studio Blog (what you're reading): http://feeds.feedburner.com/onedaylife-studioblog
ODL Videos: http://feeds.feedburner.com/onedaylifevideos

I am sorting out the podcast feed with Matt, who adds all the photos and stuff for iTunes users. The podcasts will be on the site for everyone too so don't panic about it.

OK, geekfest over and out.

Max.

Flash, flash, flash photogrpahy.

So we got a new digital camera as the last one was screwing up - I will take photos and get them up soon.

Rehearsal last night, played through every song we've recorded and a few we haven't. Having to get my mind around all the lyrics again, still forgetting the odd verse here and there, but it's all coming back to me slowly. The actual playing is getting a little easier as well. We'll step back up to twice a week rehearsal's when the albums mixed so we can get down to some real playing.

Captain Hicks was there last night and we chatted briefly about the street-team and the promo stuff. He will be in touch with you all soon, please reply and tell you are interested in getting involved.

We also did an interview with Steve Hicks for ICRFM - a local radio station. I'll see if I can get a copy and post it up here or put it in a podcast or something.

The first sample master came back, but it's not quite what we wanted (although admittedly I haven't had a chance to play it to the others yet) so we'll just carry on until we find what are looking for.

Max.