The Maccabees Learn French

This is another studio update from The Maccabees:

Hello everybody.
We're in Paris, finishing the record... Yes! It's freezing but beautiful. We have an amazing house for three weeks; it's got a spiral staircase and a tree. We'll take that. Every morning we walk through 'Pere La Chaise' cemetery to get to the studio which is really something. Jim Morrison and Oscar Wilde are buried there. There's something proper peaceful about walking through it, but I've been listening to Wu Tang Clan on the walk the last few days which doesn't really compliment the poignancy. We're getting really good at French. Really good. We've absolutely nailed 'ca va et toi?' and can do 'oui oui oui' with real assuredness now. The rest is a bit of a mystery. Luckily Sam, drumming on this record, is fluent. Which has turned out to be a bit of a burden for him probably?

Blood Red Shoes and Peggy Sue played here yesterday and so of course we went, the gig was great, we were all so impressed to see Blood Red Shoes pulling such a crowd in Paris. A real achievement. While they were here, we got Peggy sue and Laura Mary down to sing a few bits on a couple of the songs which we're all well happy with. So for the first time we have some new voices on a record. It's all change. The album is coming along well, we're starting to hear it all take shape now and it's finally feeling like the year of really holing ourselves up writing and writing and writing has paid off. We've recorded 14 songs. Don't know how many will end up being on there though.

Having done most of his bass parts, Ru has had to look for other things to do. He's got the bass line to Deal or No Deal down. In the pocket. We were all taken aback that he has also, overnight, become a huge AC/DC fan. He spends his days in the 'experimental' room with a drum machine working out Back in Black. He reckons he'll have the solos sorted by the end of the three weeks. We wait with baited breath. Hugo continues his search for barbecue sauce and amuses himself by asking 'ou est l'office de tourisme' whenever he gets the chance. That's about it. I'm writing for something to do while Lando is singing, once he's done we should have the first little set of songs done.

I'll write again in the next couple of weeks when the whole record should be finished!!
Felix

P.S Here is a video update from the studio in Liverpool... It contains a small recording of one of the new songs for the album...