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Trapped in the Closet

Dear intarwubs,

Echoing the sentiments of Jimothy over there, I hope you are having a joyful christmas break. Recording the new EP is going scarily well. So well in fact, that I think aliens have beamed down from another galaxy and replaced the old Jim and Chris with terrifyingly genial chaps who get along with each other like a house on fire. So far ther have been absolutely no major disagreements over how much crossfadey reverabated magical technology things there should be on this .5 seconds worth of a song and bla bla bla… (I am a simple vocalist - it all sounds the same to me…). They’re getting along so well that I’m beginning to suspect that they might be secretly boning each other or something. Because that’s never happened in this here band before… *cough cough*

Also because they are innovative young chaps they have made an impromptu vocal booth out of an under-the-stairs-cupboard and some bedding. Which means I have spent most of my time trapped in a closet listening to my voice go round and round and round and round singing the same phrase over and over and over again. It’s like being in a tiny padded cell with only myself with a limited vocabulary for company. In brief: I am going madder than I was before. And the madder I get the better the results seem to be. Some of the harmonies we have recorded are so good I want to lick them - and I think Chris will attest to the fact that I have tried. Apparently electrical equipment is dangerous and you shouldn’t lick it. Oh well, lesson learned. Didn’t taste that good anyway.

Anyway, I hope you like the results of our recording seclusion as much as I do. And we didn’t even have to kill each other to get it. Definite plus. The only thing that possibly made me happier than the harmonies is the fact that the EP has been named after an epic Ghostbusters quote. In case you didn’t know, Ghostbusters is the best movie in the entire world ever. I think the EP totally deserves its title.

I’m off back to solitary confinement. “It’s not funny anymoooore….”

‘Til next time,
Hannah
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