I'm pretty new to this recording stuff as you can tell...it's just me and my trusty Martin guitar and M-Audio through my PC. 

All I can manage is click and record...no fancy smansy business...guess you can really tell. ehh?  With time and a lot of help I will improve the quality of my recordings and one day may even get some professional recording done......Watch this space. More from me  to come.   Hope you like it?

7 Feb 2015
Still writing the songs but unfortunately still struggling with the recording process. Now I have a new Mac Pro laptop and a Blue Yeti mic so that's what I'm using. Still tussling with Garage Band. God I'm rubbish with technology :-)

The little studio that won't stop growing

Margot Escargot are Dorset based purveyors of traditional English guitar rock, strong on melody, universal lyric and the odd surprise for those who crave it. They believe in real songs being written and performed by real people on real instruments. 

"A talent show semi-finalist sitting in a room somewhere, having a song written for him, hopefully getting coke blown up his asshole, has nothing to do with music. No one has an acoustic guitar out, trying to write a middle eight. We are writing that middle 8 right now."

Formed in 2014 initially as a songwriting experiment between Steve Butler (singing) and Jamie Pinnow (electric bass) who drafted in drummer Rick Veall, a hugely in demand drummer in Dorset and guitarists Peter Roberts and Andrew Hurst. The two guitarists play both rock and classical as well as traditional stringed instruments such as lute and mandolin, and ethnic instruments such as sitar between them. Lucy Hackett, on keys and vocals, is a professional music teacher in Dorset schools, musical director for stage productions and all-round sweetie. 

Out of this confetti of musical differences emerged a sound that combines The Beatles with the Beach Boys, the Kinks with The Who, while also managing to include progressive elements reminiscent of Yes and Genesis. 

Margot Escargot are releasing the single When You Were My Girl on The Animal Farm on (date)

Someone WAS once 'your girl' and her current lifestyle might make you want to puke with regret, and we have all 'laughed until we've cried.. until the stitches fray and fall away..' 

It's only life eh? And life can only be sung about by those who've lived it.

Just a random guy writing eclectic music for random occasions, hopefully somebody likes it :)


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