A beautifully weird, old fashioned album of original songs about Cat Masks & Sex Dolls, Devils & Crimean War Generals, C list Celebrities, Indian Cuisine, Space-Sex, Romance, Individuality and Judge Judy,
Genre: Rock: 70's Rock
Recorded 2009 - Release Date: 2013

Musicians:

Steve Stroud: Vocals, Acoustic and Electric Guitars, Ukulele, String Arrangements, Percussion, Kazoo, Keyboards on 'The Betrayal of Abigail' and Wah Bass on 'The Reason of Your Beauty'

Marc Joy: Electric Guitar, String Arrangement, Percussion and Backing Vocals on ‘Little Cats Mask’

Colin Wilson: Bass Guitar

Mike Collins:Piano, Keyboards and Telephones

Jai Stark: Drums

Dave McMillan: Saxophone on ‘Ice Cream Ladies’

Sarah Jeory: Backing Vocals on ‘Little Cats Mask’

Jim Softley: Backing Vocals on ‘Little Cats Mask’


All Songs Written by Steve Stroud © Steve Stroud 

Produced and Engineered by Marc Joy
Recorded at Ferndale Productions


What If We Had No Moon? (Album 2009)

Little Cats Mask

Real Doll

Sending You To This World

The Reason of Your Beauty

What If We Had No Moon?

A Singer/Songwriter from Liverpool. Owns a home studio. One half of The Deltatones, One third of The Skin Imps. Harvey Stroud's Dad.

I record using a Focusrite Saffire PRO 14 firewire interface. This is connected to my PC which runs Cubase 7 64 bit.
All Guitars, Pianos, Basses, Vocals etc are played live.
Drum are programmed using  BFD2 samples. 
Synths, strings, brass etc are programmed using Cubase's Halion Symphonic.
For Piano sounds I use Steinberg The Grand 3 SE.

Acoustic guitars are played on a Yamaha APX700.
Electric guitars are normally played on my homemade strat with Seymour Duncan 'Everything Axe' pickups.
Bass Guitar is played a stock 5 string Mexican Fender Jazz bass.
For Amps sounds i use VST AMP RACK which comes with Cubase 7. 

Vocals are recorded with a Rode NT-1A condenser Microphone.
Keys and Midi parts all are played on my midi keyboard m-audio oxygen 49.

These recent demos for my new solo album are just rough sketches. The finished versions will be edited, polished up, probably with many parts re-recorded  and then properly eq'd and mixed.
 
This project is purely for my own amusement. I have no delusions of grandeur. I do not expect to get signed, famous or sell a single copy. 

That said, if you do like what you hear, or even if you don't, please feel free to get in touch. 

All comments, likes etc are gratefully received.  You're welcome to download, share and play any of my tracks.




