The Hundred Days’ blog

The venue's booked, the final mixing underway, the artwork in production and worldwide online distribution is sorted.  Amazing how much stuff gets done when you have a deadline!  We will be officially launching the album and the band on May 30th just down the road at The Sparkford Inn.  Support to be confirmed so keep an eye out on our myspace and facebook pages for full details:

Hundred Days MySpace Page
Hundred Days FaceBook Page

As we near the end of the album writing and recording process we have started going through the mixes of the tracks we have so far and make some tweaks and improvements.  The first one we've done is 'No Better' and it's now up on the myspace player: www.myspace.com/thehundreddaysrock

We'll be setting a completion date for the album soon too, what's definate is that we'll be holding a band/album launch party somewhere local when it's done...  Watch this space for details! 

We're one step closer to completing our first album.  We have now finished what could be the last track, still deciding on a final name, but something along the lines of 'Cut' or 'The Cut' seems appropriate.  It's quite a catchy tune, and is very much a candidate for the 'single' track, ie the one which goes 1st on the cd we send off for promotional purposes.  Recording for it shall begin soon, just as soon as Ryan's new drum kit is ready...  He has just bought a very big and very loud new kit.  A Premier Artist Maple series 'Rock Legend', it's vast and has a 26 inch bass drum.  Just needs some new skins and a bit of a tune up and it'll be ready to rock.  Can't wait. 

So it's been a bit quiet for us online this month.  Not that we've not been doing anything!  We now have 2 more songs on the go with a 3rd in the pipeline.  With any luck we'll have enough enough for our first album anytime soon, things are moving fast!  Gigs should be following shortly, but before we confirm anything Stu want to sort out his live kit.  Something about buying another four-by-twelve cab for one of his amps and linking the things togeth-oh no I've gone cross-eyed.  Whatever, we're assured it will sound awesome!  So, the most likely places we'll be gigging to start with will be in Bristol and Yeovil.  Until then we'll be popping down to our very own local, Woods Wine Bar to participate in the open mic night this Wednesday.  If you can make it down then great, if not then I'm sure we'll turn up there in subsequent weeks...  Open mics are a great place to get feedback about new stuff and in any case are an excuse for a few beers in the week!

Here's the second of our new songs, hot off the mixing desk!  Have a listen and leave us a comment on what you think...

The first of our 2 new songs is now just about complete... We just finished vocals on it this evening.  It's called Loved and Won.  Take a listen here or on our mysapce page and let us know what you think, we're all quite proud of this one!

Yeah, we're not terribly keen on the whole 'Battle of the Bands' thing.  Well, at least not the unorganised whoever-can-bring-as-many-people-to-drink-our-beer-wins type.  But there are a couple which we will do for our own enjoyment and just to see what people think of the music.  To that end we have entered a couple of local events, one being this years 'Live and Unsigned' in Bristol, the thing that was on Channel 4 regularly last year, and also the Glastonbury New Talent competition, seeing as it's only down the road!  The judges for these things are well known and hopefully will at least give a brutally honest opinion what what they think.  We'll keep you posted on how things go!  If anyone wants to come down to the Bristol gig then feel free...  It's taking place on Saturday 16th February at St Georges Bristol (http://www.stgeorgesbristol.co.uk/ ) from 1:30pm.  Let the Rock commence!

Live from the studio tonight, we are here discussing tracks for getting into festivals this summer.  That includes Glastonbury and another local festival in the village where we live (an update later on what we've decided!).  We also about to record ghost tracks for our next batch of tracks so Ryan has something to drum to on Sunday.

Update: We went with No Better and Burning in the Sun in the end...  Hopefully hear some good news soon!

Here we are.  This looks like it'll be the place for regular updates on what we're doing and to have a listen to new tracks as we finish recording them (well myspace too, but some will be exclusive to Vox)...  Anyway Christmas is over and it's now 2008, we've had a bit of a break and drank far too much over the last 3 weeks or so, but already we have 3 new songs underway...  One finished, arranged, lyrics written and ready to record and 2 more 50% complete.  Expect some mixes online before the end of the month!

We seem to have hit quite a nice creative pace at the moment, songs are coming together fast, and the sound is becoming pleasingly refined as we settle back into writing as a band once again.  It's just like old times, but far more polished.  We're looking forward to seeing how things develop in the next 6 months!