TM records.

We had a somewhat depleted practise on Sunday through at the Brill Building in Glasgow. With Dom and Dave both off on holiday, Mart, Doug and I were standing around in the middle of cavernous Room 2. Doug, fiddling with the mixing desk and his MP3 player, said "I'm going to try recording some stuff tonight."

Gulp. Really?

Oh yes. We played Reasons (née MonkeyOne) and Sister Isabel a couple of times, with a wobbly wall mic capturing it all for posterity. Some farting about with web pages later, the recordings turned up yesterday afternoon.

They're both hilarious and brilliant at the same time. The playing is actually relatively compentent, which is a relief: I'd be worried if, after a year of trying to play the bass, I still couldn't pull off a 4-chorder like Reasons with a degree of composure.

By the time we got to the second run through Sister Isabel, a few cans of Stella on an empty stomach had worked their magic on me. The intro is supposed to begin with some picked guitar and low-key bass, and then everyone comes in for the first verse. On the recording, everything starts off quite reasonably but then on the change to the verse I go apeshit, pounding away like mad to compensate for the absence of rhythm guitar and vocals. The poor bass amp is bludgeoned into submission, farting away with a hideous destroyed-cone noise while we batter our way to the next quiet bit.

A lot of fun.