We recorded Vahland live with no headphones or click tracks just four blokes standing in a room unrehearsed with a few old microphones. The sound of the recording is two or three microphones on the drums, one on the bass cabinet and two ribbon mics on respective guitar amps. The studio was total vibe central as it’s a old gable roofed garage made from stones lying around from the property which was first established in 1857. Vahland was recorded live onto 1/2″ tape on a 8-track reel to reel machine with lead vocals and other instrument overdubs completed post basic live tracking. If we ran out of tracks to record on, things like backing vocals and percussion were recorded live while the album was being mixed down. The album was mixed live using an all analog custom built desk onto a 1/4 inch tape which was skipping along a 1968 built 2 track reel to reel machine. – Shann Lions, July 2016.
credits
released August 19, 2016 

Four Lions – Vahland 

Produced By Four Lions 

Recorded & Mixed By Alex Bennett At Sound Recordings, Campbells Creek, Victoria, Australia 

Mastered By Ludwing Diaz At US Mastering, Weston, Florida, USA. 

Digital Transfers By Rob Roy And Tony Bongiovi At Power Station Recording Studios, Pompano Beach, Florida, USA. 

All Songs Written By Shann Lions (Ink/Universal) 

Except Nothing Land Music Written By Shann Lions (Ink/Universal) & Keith Macqueen (Control), Lyrics Shann Lions (Ink/Universal). 

Four Lions 

Keith Macqueen – Lead Guitar, Backing Vocal On Misery Loves Company, Acoustic, Slide &Barritone Guitars. 

Shann Lions – Lead/Backing Vocals, Acoustic/Electric Guitars, Whistle, Harp, Synth & Tambourine. 

Gav Moncrieff – Drums, Tambourine &Cabasa. 

Greg Perry – Bass Guitar. 

Guests 

David Moore – Pedal Steel. 

Rowan Blackmore - Accordian. 

Stephen Briggs – Hammond, Mellotron& Upright Piano. 

Thank You’s, 

Our wives, partners, children, extended families and animals for their constant love/support. Also a huge thanks to Ross “ The Boss” Jardine who always goes above and beyond for us, Reagan Barber for her fab designing, Jordan “Nacho” Allen for his hard work with us previously- thanks man, wrestle on! David Moore the darn best pedal steel player it’s such a pleasure to play with you, Alex Bennett lets do it again! Ludwing Diaz you totally rule, Stephen King At Media Arts Lawyers, Muso’s Stuff Bendigo for always fixing our gear, Roy Lever and all the crew at Coopers Brewery for the many sips. Thanks for supporting our craft…Trevor Petrie, Justin McPhail, Simon Wooldridge, Steve Saxton, Mik Weir, Nicole Ferrie, Chris Pedler, Col Thompson, Rowan Blackmore, Stephen Briggs, Col Brady, Cameron Holmes, Brett Dunlop, Jo Printz, Stan Liacos, Sarah Sheedy, Andreas Bazzani, Larissa Romensky, Bendigo Weekly, Bendigo Advertiser, ABC Australia, Retreat Hotel Brunswick, Spotted Mallard Brunswick, Handle Bar Bendigo, Newmarket Hotel Bendigo, Queens Arms Hotel Bendigo, Golden Vine Hotel Bendigo, Rob Roy & Tony Bongiovi at Power Station Recording Studios.



Vahland

Four Lions - Vahland Drive

Four Lions - Bones Of Ash

Four Lions - You've Ruined All My Favourite Songs

We recorded Vahland live with no headphones or click tracks just four blokes standing in a room unrehearsed with a few old microphones. The sound of the recording is two or three microphones on the drums, one on the bass cabinet and two ribbon mics on respective guitar amps. The studio was total vibe central as it’s a old gable roofed garage made from stones lying around from the property which was first established in 1857. Vahland was recorded live onto 1/2″ tape on a 8-track reel to reel machine with lead vocals and other instrument overdubs completed post basic live tracking. If we ran out of tracks to record on, things like backing vocals and percussion were recorded live while the album was being mixed down. The album was mixed live using an all analog custom built desk onto a 1/4 inch tape which was skipping along a 1968 built 2 track reel to reel machine. – Shann Lions, July 2016.
credits
released August 19, 2016 

Four Lions – Vahland 

Produced By Four Lions 

Recorded & Mixed By Alex Bennett At Sound Recordings, Campbells Creek, Victoria, Australia 

Mastered By Ludwing Diaz At US Mastering, Weston, Florida, USA. 

Digital Transfers By Rob Roy And Tony Bongiovi At Power Station Recording Studios, Pompano Beach, Florida, USA. 

All Songs Written By Shann Lions (Ink/Universal) 

Except Nothing Land Music Written By Shann Lions (Ink/Universal) & Keith Macqueen (Control), Lyrics Shann Lions (Ink/Universal). 

Four Lions 

Keith Macqueen – Lead Guitar, Backing Vocal On Misery Loves Company, Acoustic, Slide &Barritone Guitars. 

Shann Lions – Lead/Backing Vocals, Acoustic/Electric Guitars, Whistle, Harp, Synth & Tambourine. 

Gav Moncrieff – Drums, Tambourine &Cabasa. 

Greg Perry – Bass Guitar. 

Guests 

David Moore – Pedal Steel. 

Rowan Blackmore - Accordian. 

Stephen Briggs – Hammond, Mellotron& Upright Piano. 

Thank You’s, 

Our wives, partners, children, extended families and animals for their constant love/support. Also a huge thanks to Ross “ The Boss” Jardine who always goes above and beyond for us, Reagan Barber for her fab designing, Jordan “Nacho” Allen for his hard work with us previously- thanks man, wrestle on! David Moore the darn best pedal steel player it’s such a pleasure to play with you, Alex Bennett lets do it again! Ludwing Diaz you totally rule, Stephen King At Media Arts Lawyers, Muso’s Stuff Bendigo for always fixing our gear, Roy Lever and all the crew at Coopers Brewery for the many sips. Thanks for supporting our craft…Trevor Petrie, Justin McPhail, Simon Wooldridge, Steve Saxton, Mik Weir, Nicole Ferrie, Chris Pedler, Col Thompson, Rowan Blackmore, Stephen Briggs, Col Brady, Cameron Holmes, Brett Dunlop, Jo Printz, Stan Liacos, Sarah Sheedy, Andreas Bazzani, Larissa Romensky, Bendigo Weekly, Bendigo Advertiser, ABC Australia, Retreat Hotel Brunswick, Spotted Mallard Brunswick, Handle Bar Bendigo, Newmarket Hotel Bendigo, Queens Arms Hotel Bendigo, Golden Vine Hotel Bendigo, Rob Roy & Tony Bongiovi at Power Station Recording Studios.




Four Lions - Never Giving Up

We recorded Vahland live with no headphones or click tracks just four blokes standing in a room unrehearsed with a few old microphones. The sound of the recording is two or three microphones on the drums, one on the bass cabinet and two ribbon mics on respective guitar amps. The studio was total vibe central as it’s a old gable roofed garage made from stones lying around from the property which was first established in 1857. Vahland was recorded live onto 1/2″ tape on a 8-track reel to reel machine with lead vocals and other instrument overdubs completed post basic live tracking. If we ran out of tracks to record on, things like backing vocals and percussion were recorded live while the album was being mixed down. The album was mixed live using an all analog custom built desk onto a 1/4 inch tape which was skipping along a 1968 built 2 track reel to reel machine. – Shann Lions, July 2016.
credits
released August 19, 2016 

Four Lions – Vahland 

Produced By Four Lions 

Recorded & Mixed By Alex Bennett At Sound Recordings, Campbells Creek, Victoria, Australia 

Mastered By Ludwing Diaz At US Mastering, Weston, Florida, USA. 

Digital Transfers By Rob Roy And Tony Bongiovi At Power Station Recording Studios, Pompano Beach, Florida, USA. 

All Songs Written By Shann Lions (Ink/Universal) 

Except Nothing Land Music Written By Shann Lions (Ink/Universal) & Keith Macqueen (Control), Lyrics Shann Lions (Ink/Universal). 

Four Lions 

Keith Macqueen – Lead Guitar, Backing Vocal On Misery Loves Company, Acoustic, Slide &Barritone Guitars. 

Shann Lions – Lead/Backing Vocals, Acoustic/Electric Guitars, Whistle, Harp, Synth & Tambourine. 

Gav Moncrieff – Drums, Tambourine &Cabasa. 

Greg Perry – Bass Guitar. 

Guests 

David Moore – Pedal Steel. 

Rowan Blackmore - Accordian. 

Stephen Briggs – Hammond, Mellotron& Upright Piano. 

Thank You’s, 

Our wives, partners, children, extended families and animals for their constant love/support. Also a huge thanks to Ross “ The Boss” Jardine who always goes above and beyond for us, Reagan Barber for her fab designing, Jordan “Nacho” Allen for his hard work with us previously- thanks man, wrestle on! David Moore the darn best pedal steel player it’s such a pleasure to play with you, Alex Bennett lets do it again! Ludwing Diaz you totally rule, Stephen King At Media Arts Lawyers, Muso’s Stuff Bendigo for always fixing our gear, Roy Lever and all the crew at Coopers Brewery for the many sips. Thanks for supporting our craft…Trevor Petrie, Justin McPhail, Simon Wooldridge, Steve Saxton, Mik Weir, Nicole Ferrie, Chris Pedler, Col Thompson, Rowan Blackmore, Stephen Briggs, Col Brady, Cameron Holmes, Brett Dunlop, Jo Printz, Stan Liacos, Sarah Sheedy, Andreas Bazzani, Larissa Romensky, Bendigo Weekly, Bendigo Advertiser, ABC Australia, Retreat Hotel Brunswick, Spotted Mallard Brunswick, Handle Bar Bendigo, Newmarket Hotel Bendigo, Queens Arms Hotel Bendigo, Golden Vine Hotel Bendigo, Rob Roy & Tony Bongiovi at Power Station Recording Studios.


Four Lions - Misery Loves Company

New Years Day
Performed By Lever and Lions
Written By Roy Lever (Control) 
Produced By Shann Lions 
Recorded By Erek Ladd 
Additional Record & Mixing By Bohdan Dower 
Mastered By The Cabin Mastering 

Roy Lever - Lead & Backing Vocals, Acoustic Guitar 
Shann Lions - Bass, Backing Vocals, Clap Sticks, Harmonica 
Jarrod Hocking - Drums 
Keith McQueen - Electric Guitars

New Years Eve/New Years Day

Lever And Lions - New Years Day

New Years Eve 
Performed By Lever and Lions
Produced & Written By Shann Lions (Ink Music/Universal) 
Recorded By Erek Ladd 
Additional Record & Mixing By Bohdan Dower 
Mastered By The Cabin Mastering 

Shann Lions - Acoustic Guitar, Lead & Backing Vocals, Tambourine 
Roy Lever - Drinking A Cold Beer 
Jarrod Hocking - Drums 
Keith McQueen - Electric Guitars 
Erek Ladd - Bass, Electric Guitar 
Bohdan Dower - Electric Guitar

New Years Eve

Lever and Lions - New Years Eve

Cash Grab is a retrospective reflection of a tale about the greyhound industry. This was informed in part from a conversation I overheard while having a haircut most likely modelled on Rod Stewart in his Faces era a few years ago. Cash Grab was written sitting on my couch at home after spinning The Faces, The Stones and The Who, Keith came around on a Monday night and we played around with the chorus and added to it, finished in 20 minutes. Arrangement/structure wise it was mapped on those said bands, horns very mo-town which as soon as it was written was aching for that and some honky tonk piano, Hammond organ just sitting under the mix. Lyrically it was written in an hour which is never how things work as a rule, this is as pondering is normally needed for that conducive flow of words. Musically and lyrically I have to be satisfied after much self critiqued scrawl goes into my songbook but lyrics always seem to receive minor alterations during the recording process. – Shann Lions 01.11.2018.

Cash Grab

Cash Crab

Four Lions - Cash Grab

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