We have entered he mix stage of the album and the songs are sounding really good, we can't wait for you to hear them.

We are just adding a couple of finishing touches to a few of the tracks, one of these is some live drumming from Bob Malkowski (Ex The Modern). Bob came in to add some drum parts to 3 of the tracks on the album.

More soon......
Glen

So there's me saying all the vocals have been done and all of a sudden we are back recording vocals again. As we near the end of the album we had to go back and add a couple of extra vocal parts on to one of the tracks, Steve says this is the last we have to do.

Only a couple of bits to do before we are off to mix .....

I will be updating the diary soon with new images....

Glen

So can you guess who was doing all the work today, i will give you a clue I am the one with the headphones.....

We have been playing around with some new drum tracks for Taking on this Love, we are working to give it a grittier sound. So far its sounding really good.

Ross came down to show us his new jacket, very nice Ross....

More soon

Glen

Today we played back the whole album to get an idea of any tracks that need any extra elements. Everything sounded good with the exception of a couple of tracks that need some backing vocals and some drum programming, these will be done in the next couple of weeks.

Byeeeee....

Glen

Chris prepares for his session in the studio by taking on board some coffee. Today we were working on the albums instrumentals. We were adding some extra keyboard parts and working on the songs structure and drum programming.

Byeeeee....

Glen

Ross and Chris and myself were in the studio doing some work on a couple of tracks as they near completion, these were All is said and done and City Lights. We have another session of guitar work coming up with Nic so we are edging closer to a completion of the recording process.

All of Ross's vocals have been done, we may be using some backing vocalists on a couple of the tracks. We will update you as soon as more info is available.

stay tuned for more info coming soon..

Byeeeee....

Glen

More guitar work done today as Nic played the guitar for Ascension and Let me see. Extra guitar work has been done on The Miracles Gone and What's on your Mind?. These tracks are sounding great, things are sounding great. we are very excited about how the tracks are sounding.

MP3's will be online soon, we promise.

Until next time....

Glen

Another day another track almost finished, we are getting into the final straight on the album now as we work thorough each track finalising the songs. Nic popped in to see how it was all going, it was a sunny day outside which was nice.

More studio news soon.....

Glen

Back in the studio again putting the finishing touches to a couple of tracks. We are trying to eat a little bit healthier while we do the album. Who thought rice crackers would be so tasty....

More food news soon.....

Glen

Another day another track... We were working on the track called Ascension, this is a great track with a great summer feel to it. Chris was down adding some drum programming to it to give it a cool summer groove. If it only worked on the English weather ...

More soon....

Glen

We were back in the studio last week working on an instrumental track for the the album, its called The Girl from. . . . ?? if you want to know where you will have to wait for the album. This wont be long as the tracks are sounding amazing. We will be launching a micro site for the album soon. We will add MP3 clips to that site.

Stay tuned for more updates.....

Glen

The work over the last few weeks has focused on vocals, we are now finalising the guitar parts and additional keyboard parts. New photos soon.

More news soon.....

Glen

We worked on more guitar for the album with Nic using his E-Bow on "Tears of Silvery Rain" this gave the track a great haunting sound. We also put down some acoustic guitar ideas for the same track.

The next few weeks is going to be all vocals and guitars, stay tuned for more updates.

More news soon.....

Glen

So as February draws to a close we are starting the next phase of the album production. Recording of the albums vocals started last week, at the moment we are just laying down some vocal guides as some of the songs have changed dramatically from the original demo's.

We are planning to get the vocals all finished within the next few weeks.

Back soon with more news......

Glen

Here is the latest exciting installment of the albums progress.

The last 2 songs from the original batch of demos was worked on over the weekend, these being Who and Everyone is Someone. Both of these songs have taken very different courses from the demo's.

As well as the main recording area a smaller editing / programming area has been set up in the studio, this will help us to work on other tracks. This will speed up the production process as we move onto the vocal and guitar recording sections of the album.

So far we have about 15 songs which will be short listed for the album.

stay tuned for more info soon.....

Glen

Wow 2007 has come round very fast, and we are in for a busy year what with the new album coming out but also the re-release of Incoming.

So today was a chance for me and Chris to get in the studio to work on the albums instrumental tracks while Steve was out on the Piste...

So today we were working on the instrumental Wobble, I think this name is going to change before the album is finished. This track started out as something we made up during rehearsals.

We have moved it on a lot today from the original idea, bringing in a lot of external analog keyboards to fatten up the track and give it a unique and edgy sound.

More soon.....

Glen

While still nursing post Christmas hangovers, Me and Steve were busy programming a sound on the System 100 for a new song. My first attempt was right but a few cable changes and slider movements resulted in a bizarre sound that was not exactly right, Steve stepped up and created a great sound, which was right.

I still think we are going to need some more cables

Till next year.....

Glen

All the songs are starting to sound really good with our producer Steve Travell working on the arrangements of the songs, with new and longer verses, choruses etc etc.

While this is going on my tea making skills have improved which is also a good thing.

Milk and sugar??

Glen

Today we worked on the track All is said and Done. The song has gone through a major rework with Steve extending the verses and adding some excellent strings and a killer bass line.

We are hoping to have some of the new versions of these songs ready for our shows in March 2007.

Glen

As the winter evenings draw in, we have been busy in the studio Yet more images from tonight's work in the studio.

Nearly all the songs have gone through the process of being stripped back to basics and rebuilt, some songs have changed dramatically from the original demos. They are all sounding amazing.

Until next time....

Glen

Yet more images from tonight's work in the studio.

As you can see from the photo's we let Nic rock out with his guitar tonight, and what fun he had.

We worked on guitar ideas for 3 tracks. Taking on this Love, Spinning on the Fullstop and Who? at the moment we are still laying down ideas for the guitars but we are getting a good feel on the direction of a couple of the songs.

We have recorded some video clips and will be posting them online soon.

Until next time....

Glen

More images from today's work in the studio.

Today we started the second stage of the production.

Now all the songs are in Logic, we are working on the main programming of all the songs, this is where we see what parts from the original demos stay and which ones go.

Today's song was People are Strange. Quite a bit of the original percussion has been removed and the bassline reworked to fit the song better. This has created extra space within the track.

Steve added some new Melltron parts to the Mid8 and Ending, which has helped one of the best endings to our songs.

That's all for now, check back soon for new updates...

Glen

More images from this weekend work in the studio.

Things did not go well from the start, a series of knocks to the head put me in a bad move which lasted until lunch time, luckily the all day breakfast from the local cafe helped ease the pain. Meanwhile back at the studio we were transferring all the Cubase files over to Logic 7

This was a long job as there is not an easy way to transfer the songs between the 2 platforms.

All the songs are now in the G5 and we will start further production over the next few weeks.

We are pleased with the sound of the tracks at this early stage and feel they will get better as the production evolves.

That's all for now, check back soon for new updates...

Glen

Images taken during the session at the weekend when as we were working on Ascension. Chris was working hard on a sound on the bassstation which involved a lot of lying on the floor as it is in the bottom of the rack. We think he was having a sneaky sleep...

The track sounds good even at this early stage, most of the programming from the original demo is good enough for the track so we will be adding to that new parts and guitar..

Hello again,

Today we started playing around with some ideas for Spinning on the Full Stop. This song has a few different names giving to it from Alice and Andrew something to do with seats and buses.....

We have played this one a few times in the last year and is already a crowd favourite.

We have stripped the track back to basics and are working from the drums up. We are using the BFD Vst drum plugin as a source for the drums on the track. Anyone know what BFD stands for? Answers on a postcard......

Its sounding very big and quite different to the live version we have played.

Until the next time...

Glen

Once again we have started the exciting process of recording a new Blue October album. We are hoping for a Spring / Summer 2007 release.

2007 is going to be a big year for us we have 3 albums planned 2 re release and 1 new album.

We are hopefully going to keep this diary updated with all the latest goings on at the studio, as we record the album. Over the next few weeks we will be including images and video clips from Wizz Cam of the production of the album.

Tonight me and Ross along with the albums producer Steve Travell worked through all the songs written for the album and started working out what direction the tracks are going to take.

So that's about it for now, we will bring you the next exciting installment soon.

Glen....

So the process of building a new studio to record the forthcoming album is under way. We have re located to a house in London. There was a lot of building and organising to do. Steve Travell the bands producer got stuck in with the setting up the miles of wiring that needed to be installed to get the studio up and running.

More soon

Glen....