http://www.aeroplaneattack.com Just another WordPress weblog Fri, 04 Dec 2009 20:15:15 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Been a bit quiet here of late, hasn't it? Well, that's not because we've not been busy, I can assure you... the iLiKETRAiNS/SDOLE show at The Wedge went well, and we played Munroe Effect's single launch party about a week afterwards. And that show, folks, was my last with the ... http://www.aeroplaneattack.com/2009/12/04/the-demobbing-of-a-guitarist/ Back in September we moved into the Old Blacksmiths Studios in Portsmouth for a couple of days to record some songs with Rich Tamblyn. The idea being that we record live in the rooms we use for practice each week. Rich's mix of The Subject is Too Dark has already ... http://www.aeroplaneattack.com/2009/10/24/aa-recording-the-subject-is-too-dark/ Below are a couple of text message reviews received from my housemate, who drafts them between songs and hits 'send' at the end of our set. "I think no actual words is a great idea. But I can envisage some vocals: 1st song great intro, add woo-oh-Ooh's. Rolling style. 2nd song ... http://www.aeroplaneattack.com/2009/07/30/sms-critique/ The title says it all really. We're playing the Vision Incision show at the Edge alongside Crocus and Lavotchkin on the 27th and we'll be first on so if you do want to catch us then it's best to turn up early (doors are 8pm). http://www.aeroplaneattack.com/2009/07/18/gig-news-july-27-edge-of-the-wedge-southsea/ Fresh from judging at the Wedgewood Rooms Showcase with KO tonight, I've returned to find footage of my appearance at the National Drumb Off, this year in Birmingham. The creme de la creme of the drumb world were there, and we battled it out to the end. Apparently there was ... http://www.aeroplaneattack.com/2009/07/17/drumb-off/ In 1983 I stood upon RAF Sealand, North Wales with my parents, watching some kind of aircraft display – not uncommon for the territory. My father worked at the base back then, and we’d been to other open days and get togethers. This one was different because I cried. Aged 4, ... http://www.aeroplaneattack.com/2009/07/13/chasing-vulcans/ Those who've seen us play will have noticed that we don't sound a great deal like the songs that currently sit on our MySpace page (other than the Youtube vid of Joseph), so I thought I'd explain why as it crops up in conversation from time to time. The songs in ... http://www.aeroplaneattack.com/2009/07/12/the-myspace-songs/ PRESENT/FUTURE Well, these past few months have been pretty busy for me, especially after a few years break in the musical wilderness. Our live debut in April seems like a distant memory, and we've found our strengths and weaknesses along the way. Being a band still in our infancy, we're in ... http://www.aeroplaneattack.com/2009/07/09/51/ Welcome to the first of hopefully, many ‘drumb stools’ - a brief view from behind the traps at the rest of Aeroplane Attack with a percussive skew. I should begin with a glossary of sorts. Drumb comes from a term coined in 1996, when Dale Crover of legendary Melvins fame released ... http://www.aeroplaneattack.com/2009/07/07/a-word-from-the-drumb-stool/ Picture the scene: there we were, out on a band mission to buy (among other things) some latticework MDF, Araldite and some genuine Gibson machine heads*, and it was mentioned that yours truly still hadn't gotten his arse in gear and set up the proper website he'd been promising to ... http://www.aeroplaneattack.com/2009/06/21/new-aeroplane-attack-website-taxis-for-launch/