An early recording of a young Spacehog performing ‘In The Meantime’ from the Nadja soundtrack.
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Song notes, as provided by Jonny Cragg himself:
“The song was our first recorded effort together. Created during down time at Crushing Jingles studio on W57th street in New York City in the summer of 1994. It features our original guitarist Bob Curreri before he was superceded by Richard Steel. An adolescent Sean Lennon visited us during the session and whisked us off to the Dakota Building to ‘jam’ with him and Timo Ellis, which blew our young minds. Around this time Royston was working as an assistant engineer at Baby Monster Studios where he met Bryce Goggin. The music for Nadja was being edited there and the track was brought to the attention of the director who promptly put it in the film. The version on Resident Alien was a recut recorded along with the rest of the album at the Barn at Bearsville Studios, Bearsville N.Y. the following year, produced by Bryce Goggin.
Jonny x”
For those of you who tuned in on Wednesday, you may have heard Roy and Ant interviewing with Steve Jones on Indie 103.1’s Jonesy’s Jukebox. They talked a bit about the Spacehog reunion and played live acoustic songs. If you missed it, don’t fret, I missed it too… although I spoke to Ant afterwards and he was very excited. Some links from the show:
With help from Anonymous’s much better memory than mine and the photo of the playlist that Stephanie found taken by the brilliant Joshua J. Smelser, I’ve revised my report on Friday night’s show. Thank you to our Cap’n Freeman for letting me add it to our blog. For those that read my report yesterday that’s posted over at the forum, this is the same babbling giddiness, but with those song related corrections. Continue reading ‘Spacehog at the Troubadour’
Spacehog registered their new Myspace the other day, and I just got it up and going. Still working on a few things, but I am happy to say that the band now has their own online space to post blogs, songs, and pictures to their heart’s content. I put up all of my polaroids from this week in the studio. Jonny took some great ones too. If you are wondering what all the video cameras are for, it’s a surprise. Go add Spacehog on Myspace!
From left to right: Ant and Richard; Roy recording bass; The buttons that make the hit songs; Jonny on the drums at Viper Room.
As you know, Spacehog is working hard on new tracks this week. I took alot of cute pics (boys, thanks again for always being so sweet). Spacehog’s official myspace should be up soon. I’m sure that once it is, they’ll be able to add new songs and fill you in on the happenings. I got a couple emails about the earthquake and everyone is perfectly fine, thanks for asking. If you are a venue, studio, label, etc interested in the band, send word to the Arckid myspace for now. Don’t forget, they are playing Troubador on Friday night.
11:15pm, Monday July 29th, 2008 at Los Angeles’ Viper Room. Royston, Antony, Jonny and Richard enter the Viper Room’s front door to the screams of an almost-capacity Viper Room crowd. Instruments in hand, they ran onto stage, behind the drawn curtain. A bearded Rich Steel emerged briefly and approached me after I shouted his name. We had a brief hi-volume club conversation over the house music. (You know the type… “How have you been?” “I’ve been outside” “What’s outside?” “Yeah, wild!” “What???” “Badgers?… What about them?” “Cool!”) I attempted to tell him how excited I was about seeing them live, and that it satisfied a long-term dream of mine. I think he said that they weren’t ready, that they’d hardly rehearsed and he hoped that the show lived up to my dreams. It’s entirely possible he was talking about badgers, but I think I heard him correctly.
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