#TodaysWork: the yoozhe ("yuzh"? there's a raging linguist-nerd debate about this, i have just learned)
- a lil tour management
- talking with a new venue in a new city!! not [REDACTED], we're playing there too much
- mix tweaks for bone haus, who send *excellent* mix notes, some of the best i've seen
- more mix tweaks for nuuksio. getting closer on a very particular vocal sound we're working to find!
- a shitload of rehearsing. the show sounds KILLER 💀
#TodaysWork: go go go!
- a little more mixing
- some tour management
- researched cassette duplication 🤔
- edited another good to me trailer video
- lots of rehearsing
- fine-tuning the sound of shannon's vocal in the live rig; huge improvements
#TodaysWork: i finally had time to do some video!
- tour management first
- then another version of henrik's mix
- lots of mentee notes; @WonderTruly finished three mixes! 🥳
- rehearsed the show with @shannoncurtis. it's getting good again 🕺
- spent the last 5 hours of the night getting going on trailers for the show
- did selects from most of two cameras worth of shots from our sacramento pilot concert 🙀
- made a little trailer of a speaking bit 🏆
#TodaysWork: pretty simple day!
- did some tour management stuff in the afternoon
- did a first mix of a song for a new dreampop band from scandinavia
- did some tour promo after that
and that's it! 🏆
#TodaysWork: it's friday baybeeee
- NEW 80s kids song is out: west end girls 🤠
- did another ton of show promo organization
- did some advancing and tour management type stuff
- had a very promising talk with a venue in [REDACTED]
- not the same redacted place as earlier this week, either!
- clear on the other side of the country in fact
- had a great rehearsal — first time re-integrating the storytelling!
- i remembered most of my score bits; encouraging!
#TodaysWork: new 80s kids song!
- https://shannoncurtis.bandcamp.com/track/west-end-girls
- we shot a 7-second video for it, which you can see in the spotify canvas for the song — still shot attached
- did a bunch of tour promo stuff
- that's it! 🖤
from the album 80s kids
#TodaysWork: it's hard to work in a pnw heatwave!
- got my tour advancing spreadsheet in order 🏆
- spent like an hour scouting locations in downtown for a SEVEN-SECOND VIDEO SHOOT tomorrow 😂
- odds and ends on the computer; website backups, wordpress upgrades, et cetera. the non-sexy stuff
- NEW 80s kids SONG TOMORROW THOUGH!! 🥳🥳🥳🥳
#TodaysWork: the least fraught monday in a while!
- being back in active rehearsals helps so much
- it is somewhat heatwave-y where we live right now so rehearsal was VERY SWEATY
- got our tour tee shirt order in
- talked with a new venue in [REDACTED] 🙀
- watched through a bunch of the footage from our april show in sacramento in preparation for editing together trailers
- wrote a couple jamie's list posts that i really like
#TodaysWork: IT'S THE WEEKEND BABY
- god damn! what a week!
- rehearsed the show
- my voice is FEELING IT today. i'm all raspy 🥲
- got a MUCH better monitoring situation hooked up for rehearsing 🏆
- mostly finished mixing that punk song. it rules. super heavy
- sent notes to another artist i'm doing some remote production with
- did some random show promo (PLEASE GET TICKETS TO ONE OF OUR SHOWS. THANK YOU)
Dreamscapes
jamie hill🏴☠️