Our Debut Album is allllllll recorded

Alright and cheers for reading

I am so pleased to tell you that we have managed to complete the recording of our debut album "Widow Country". We spent a total of two weeks recording with good friend Jason Sanderson in Barnsley and we managed to just squeeze everything we wanted to do in. We began May 11th until May 17th, then home for a week to demo some vocals and then back to Barnsley May 25th to May 31st. I am most of all happy to tell you that it has all come out much better than we expected :-D

As for the recording experience itself, it turned out to be a lot less stressful than we thought it was going to be. That possibly being also down to using intoxication to pass the days in Barnsley and spending a lot of time hanging out with all our friends in the area. Big Big props to our friends in Errander. Its always so good hanging out and its been a dream getting to see you all for a full two weeks.

Heres how things panned out time wise.

Day 1 - Drums + Live Recording
Day 2 - Drums + Live Recording
Day 3 - Drums + Live Recording
Day 4 - Drum Editing + 1 Vocal track
Day 5 - Guitar 1
Day 6 - Guitar 1 + Beginning Guitar 2
Day 7 - Guitar 2

We went home for a week to work and demo the vocals for 8 tracks

Day 8 - Bass + Vocals
Day 9 - Bass + Clean Guitar + Vocals
Day 10 - Clean Guitar + Higher/Bright guitar + Vocals
Day 11 - Higher /Brighter guitar + Heavy as fuck guitar + Vocals
Day 12 - Heavy as fuck guitar, Vocals + Gaffers birthday :-D
Day 13 - Vocal Edits + Vocals
Day 14 - Vocal Edits + Voclas + Feed Back :-D


Key Things To Mention!

+ Black fox ;-)
+ Errander and Cocean hang outs.
+ A lot of intoxication
+ iceland's cheap food
+ Competative boweling
+ Hub got to go to london with Lock and Keys when they played with Polar Bear Club
+ Hubs good cooking
+ A lot of Tea/Coffee being drank
+ Jase working 10 to 12hour days for us
+ The amount of sweet amps we got to use
+ Assistant Joe!


Information on its release will be coming out in the summer fingers crossed, so until then please bare with us. Its going to be worth the wait :-D


Thanks for checking by our page and seeing what we have been up to. We have been having an amazing year so far and hope that it carrys on the same way. Bellow is a shit load of pictures from our two weeks of recording. Check them out and keep an eye out for a video thats being edited together from our experience.

Big shout outs to the following people for keeping us entertained in barnsley

Jason
Gaffer
DAWG
Ryan
Ryan's Joe
Awesome Joe who also assisted in recording us
Ross
Dave
Gibb
Kalvin
Scarlet
Scott
Chris
Tom Beasts
and sorry anyone i have forgotten that feels they should be in the list. My memoury with names sucks.


Good times


Martin + The Lavotchkin's

Lavotchkin/ OutCryCollective Mini Tour April 09

Hey

So we got back from doing a mini tour with OutCryCollective from southern England last week. Tour post bellow ;-)



Thanks so much to everyone who came out to the shows, had fun and bought merch etc etc. It was a real cool set of shows and was a pleasure to tour with OutCry who were real sound guys. Big props to steve OutCry for putting us up and looking after us so well and even bigger props to Jenna for putting us up in Brighton for most of the tour. Double thanks to all our friends in the south that came out the shows and hung out with us at the shows. Ashford and Brighton especially. Last thanks to Andy, Jag and Meb Ghost of a Thousand + Friends for there parts in partying with us till 7am several nights and andy especially for getting us home.

So this time we took a camera away with us though took fuck all pictures. We are really good at the whole making an effort to get some pics from tour business........ However, there was actually a few bits of video footage from this tour, which is being put together as a real small tour diary by our boy John Barmby. Some live footage/ some fucking round footage, you never know it migh be funny ........ though hopefully we wont look like dickheads in the process :-D

What pics we have are bellow if you havnt already seen. Enjoy!














So now back from tour, next up for us is Recording our Album which is begins in May. We are recording with good friend Jason Sanderson in Barnsley over 14 days and we have full faith in the fact hes gunna make it sound amazing. So atm we are spending as much time as possible putting the last bits together and i can honestly say i cant wait to get it all recorded. We're totally stoked with how its all come out and i can tell you now its a reallllll angry Record.

Lastly, May 1st we will be putting a brand New Track online via myspace. Its been a long while coming though its going to be the first of many new tracks this year! The track going online is called "You Were Dawn" and will be featuring on our fourth coming split with our boys in the South, the mighty Crocus. Release information for the Split will go up May 1st as well as the dates for a Release UK tour with both Crocus and ourselves. Stay fucking tuned!

Cheers for reading my rantings once again.

Wish us luck with Recording :-p

Martin + The Lavotchkin's

Lavotchkin/ Human Fly March 09Tour

hey

so we got back a couple of days ago from Touring Northern England with the mighty Human Fly from leeds. We played 6 shows in total and it was an absolute treat getting to see Human Fly that many times in one week. We can assure you that there new songs are imense, so keep an eye out for there new recordings which are coming soon! All in all it was a cool tour and it was nice to be not so far away from home for a change :-D


Anyway, the shows were really cool and we got to hang out with a lot of friends we havnt seen for a while as well as getting to make a few more. Very much two birds with one stone and to be honest everything happend without any real problems for once. 6 nights of getting fucked up and head banging to Human Fly. Big shout outs to Chell, Lincolin Dean, The burning the Prospect guys, The Horse and Groom Manager, The Manville house guys, Errander, joe, all the Human Fly Drivers, all of Human Fly and Merch man Boydy.

Heres a few pics from the shows! Enjoy.















Once again as painfully obvious, we didnt take a camera with us. I swear i will actually try my best to get one sorted for the OutCry dates that we are doing in April, though my fish like memoury does me no favours. Until then, we are back home using what little time we have working on the final bits for our album. Totally siked on how its all sounding though we stil have a fair bit to do on it, which we are gunna get ready for recording if it kills us. So after our dates with Out Cry Collective are over we are going to be spending all our free time in our cold practice room getting shit done. BUSY FUCKING TIMES. But productive times....

As for the rest of our plans, we are going to be taking June off for a much needed break to practice and work for a month so our jobs/bank accounts forgive us enough to let us tour in the Summer. Come July though we are back on the road with firstly Shotgun Riot from London and
late in the month with Crocus to support the release of our split CD (which has a release date pencilled in currently for June 29th.) August we are still planned on doing a Europe trip with Crocus to also support the Euro side of our splits release. Busy summer ahead, so keep an eye out as we will be putting up tour dates in the next couple of months.

A subject which i havnt mentioned in a while that has come to light now is our split 7inch with Attack! Vipers!. Its been a long time coming, though the masters are done now as far as i am aware and we are just waiting on the Art Work being finished. Its going to press straight away, though i dont want to jinx the whole thing and say a date until it has. We are all really excited for our first 7inch and are also stoked its with Attack Vipers. So stay tuned for that as well!

Come see us with OutCryCollective next week if you live in the south! It will be the last shows we will be playing before July.

Cheers for reading! Cheers to everyone who put our shows with Human Fly! Last Cheers to everyone who came out to the Human Fly shows! It was sweet!

Martin + The Lavotchkin's