Believe it or not, we have a SHOW coming up.
And this isn’t just any show. This is “Sinch featuring the Ocular Noise Machine”. We will be performing about a 30 minute set before the premiere of the film “Turnaround”. Our set will start at 7pm. This show will taking place on May 17th, 2001 at the CBS Auditorium at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia. (full address and directions are at the bottom of this post.)
So, you’re probably wondering what the Ocular Noise Machine is. Well, it’s made up of 3 words that are all in the dictionary. I’m sure you can figure it out.
Anyway, here is all the info:
May 17, 2001 @ 7:00pm
CBS AUDITORIUM (use the front entrance)
The University of the Arts
320 South Broad Street
Philadelphia, PA 19102
Admission is FREE
We have pretty much confirmed that the reason the Ginger Snaps soundtrack has been pushed back to an October release is to coincide with the theatrical release of the film here in the US.
But if, for whatever reason, you just can’t wait that long, you may be able to pick up a free copy of Roadrunner’s Summer Sampler CD which features the same song that we have on the soundtrack.
According to the official Roadrunner site, they’ll be handing these out starting around mid-June at Ozzfest, the Warped Tour and other summer shows.
Click here to see the cover. (So you know what you’re looking for.)
Apparently, the Ginger Snaps soundtrack will now be released sometime in October. We really have no idea why, so don’t ask. It was originally supposed to be released on June 26 here in the US.
The UK release date still appears to be June 25, so you may be able to order it online or have a store order it for you if you just can’t wait until October. And I think it will probably be released in Canada soon (if it hasn’t been already) since the movie just opened in theaters there a few weeks ago. Still no word on whether or not it will be realeased theatrically in the US. Maybe that’s why the soundtrack got pushed back…
We have added a whole bunch of new avatars to the message board. Many of them are courtesy of the Rebel Alliance. Avatars are simply pictures that you can select from which will appear next to all of your posts. You can select one by modifying your profile. We now have such avatars as David Lopan, Steve Albini and Blanche from the Golden Girls. Enjoy.
It looks like we’ll be heading down to Nashville sometime during the first two weeks in June where we will spend the next 40 or so days recording and mixing the album. We’re being told we will start no later than June 11, so we’ll see what happens.
Over the next two weeks we will be finishing up our pre-production with Walter and making a trip up to the Roadrunner offices to meet with their art department about the album artwork.
If you haven’t already, check out our Roadrunner Artist Page.
We’re getting ready to wrap up pre-production with Walter and head down to Nashville to get started with Malcolm (Springer). The tentative starting date is (no later than) June 11.
I know this studio journal thing probably hasn’t been too exciting yet, but once we get into the recording, things should get a little more interesting. At least, that’s the theory.
Not too much has happened since this past week. Walter stayed home and we worked on a new song that’s been sort of half-finished for the past few months. It’s pretty close to being finished now. No title for this one yet. We’ll just call it Untitled 4.
We also got started on our EPK (Electronic Press Kit). This is just something that we’re doing for Roadrunner that will be sent out to the media (magazines, radio, etc.) as a promotional type thing. It was nice to get a little break and do something different for a day. When it’s finished it will be about 5-7 minutes long. We’ll probably be posting some clips from it as we get farther along and the whole thing will eventually be available for download from the site. So far we filmed interviews with each band member and got some rehearsal footage.
We’ll be getting together with Walter again sometime within the next few weeks to kind of finalize everything we’ve done with him. Other than the 10-11 songs that Walter worked on with us, there are a few other ones that we’ll be working on before we get into the studio: The Silent Acquiescence of Millions, Maybe a Purpose, and two songs that were originally supposed to appear on the Project:Bluebird EP, An Author for the Authority and Breathing Cliche.
Unless any other new songs are written between now and when we get into the studio, we’ll be going in with about 16 songs ready to go. The total time for the 16 songs clocks in roughly somewhere around 65-70 minutes.
More arrangements. Lots of rehearsing. A visit from the manager and the A&R representative. Another acoustic type song in the works, possibly to replace the other one we were working on last week. The one we were doing last week is tentatively being called “Stolen.” The one we worked on this week doesn’t even have a tentative title yet.
Here is an updated list of the 13 songs we have been working on:
Tabula Rasa, Pain, 433, Plasma, Uniforms, Me Parade, Die in Fall, Selfish Reasons, Bitmap, Maasinuum, Stolen, and Untitled 3.
