I've been hunkered down in my studio for the last week and a bit on and off, playing guitars, fiddling with dials and faders, shouting into microphones. Am exhausted and thoroughly looking forward to the Christmas break.

I have some rough mixes to listen to over Christmas, then it'll be back to the grindstone...all sounding good, though. Recording with Mat Sampson last Wednesday was a great experience - top guy, top studio. Very relaxed.

So anyway, happy Christmas to all from The Sky Is Blue. Look forward to seeing you in 2007.

Our rescheduled, hastily rearranged and relocated recording session happened yesterday and was a great experience from start to finish!

We kicked through the four tracks we'd planned to do and are reasonably happy with the results (so far... i.e, we only did bass and drums. All the rest will be added at home). Mat Sampson is a great guy to work with for drums, I've concluded. Anyway, something funny: I took a CD home with a rough mix of the rhthym tracks to pore over in my own time. When I put it into iTunes these are the matches it suggested for the CD I'd inserted:

Toxicity -- System Of A Down
She Don't Use Jelly -- The Flaming Lips
Bring It All Back -- S Club 7
Do You Wanna Have Sex With Me -- Dirty Stevie
Subsidiary:Excerpts From The Other World -- Another World
Be My Twin (Single) -- Brother Beyond

and about 6 more.