Emptiness And Bliss, by Phil Plumpton, Jamie Parker and Jim Blunt

Philip James Plumpton - Vocals, Fretless Bass Guitar
Jim Blunt - Lead Guitar
Jamie Parker - Drums

Learned, practiced, arranged and recorded in a single day at Jamie Parker's poolhouse studio in 2012, the day we met Jim in person for the first time.

Mixed by Phil Plumpton in his dining room home studio in 2013.

Emptiness And Bliss (2012)

Phil: vocals, bass
Jamie Parker: drums
Jim Blunt: lead guitar

Recorded in Jamie's living room in 1 day with no prior practice,  neither of us having met Jim before that day; a song I'd written shortly beforehand.  

I still love that dirty funk vibe.

Bracing For The Dawn (2012)

Quick Remix of Sarah Holmes - Excuses 1.1.1

First sketch of a prog metal track I'm just starting to write.  Wanted to test run my new Seymour Duncan pickups in my old trusty Ibanez RG550.  Also wanted to play with my old ADA MP-1 guitar preamp.   Drums and synths were programmed on Reason.  Guitar and bass were recorded using Reaper.  

New prog metal track first sketch

Jamie Parker - drums, keyboards, backing vocals
Phil Plumpton - lead vocal, guitars, bass

Crazy night in Darkline Studios, Warrington, involving a LOT of red wine and much merriment.  By the time I got around to the lead vocals I was... a little worse for wear to say the least.

Totally unplanned recording of this song, very much like the Anna Begins night.  Turned up, opened the wine, started having the conversation about what song we should cover, wanting to do a song we'd never played together before.

It's a bit painful in places, but there's a few interesting moments in there occasionally.  :) To fully appreciate it (ahem) you should probably try to listen to it when you're somewhere near as drunk as we were when we made it.

Bright Lights (2008) (recorded very drunk)

A song I wrote in London in 2006 when I was working at Olympic and living next door.  It was mostly recorded at home on Logic.  Strings, drums and additional bass were programmed in Reason.  Vocals were recorded at Olympic Studios in Studio 1 if I remember rightly.  I think it was a Neumann U87.  Harry Collier, formerly of Kubb and my housemate at the time, is on bass for the bulk of the song.

Phil - Vocals, guitars, strings and drum programming, additional synth bass.
Harry Collier - bass guitar 

Nothing Left To Burn (2006)

Another crazy night at Darkline Studios in Warrington with Jamie Parker, who was managing the place at the time.  If I remember rightly, this one involved a hideous amount of fine wines and a selection of cheeses and french loaves.  Possibly.
Anyway, it was one of those "Come and visit, and we'll have a night in the studio recording something and getting wasted!" kind of evenings.  We both love the Counting Crows album August And Everything After, and this song is one of the crown jewels of that album, so when I arrived and we still hadn't prepared anything, it was a natural on-the-spot choice.

Great night.  Hope you enjoy the fruits of our evening of decadence and debauchery.  

Phil: Vocals, guitars, bass
Jamie Parker: drums, piano

Anna Begins (2008)

Hehe, I just found this old techno track I wrote in 2003ish using Reason 2 or 3.  The vocal samples are tiny snippets of in-studio smalltalk courtesy of Beth Lambert, who had absolutely no idea I would later use her words "erm" and "I'm ready" from our conversation as samples on a track.  Sorry Beth! :)

It's not properly produced or anything, it just made me smile, so I thought I'd upload it as a contrast to the rest of my stuff on here.

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