Back... but for how long?

And now I am back online, I have 16 demos to work with: the amount I originally aimed for. I've been working on two songs, one previously mentioned and another yesterday - which strangely was the first song concept I came up with for this album called 'Get It Right'. I wrote it on Barra de Lagoa beach in Florianopolis (Ilha de Santa Catarina, Brazil.. I'll just keep on flashing foreign names to make this seem more interesting) but never got round to trying to write it properly. Now I'm nearly there.

I've listened back to all of my current demos and created a "Yes, No, Maybe" list of songs to include or forget all together. "Maybes" will be songs I'll include if they develop further. In general, this is very much going to be a pop-record, based on rhythms and hooks, with lots of distortion and guitars for good measure. Some songs are almost the opposite and suddenly go for a very 'live' sound.

I'm still hoping to write another couple of demos, as listening back to the 'Yes' and 'Maybe' tracks, I'm kinda worried there's a lack of consistency here and at the same time, worried some of it is just too samey, but I'm fairly confident that I can string together a good album. I'm hoping to record some guitars for more developped tracks with Alan Webb over the coming week (or failing that, when I return from Glastonbury) and we'll see how it all goes from there.

Time to buy a decent pre-amp for home recordings.