NancyJohnson Posted December 3, 2018 Share Posted December 3, 2018 (edited) I'm knocked out that my band (Lutz) have had our album listed on a couple of these top ten releases of 2018 things; I'm assuming this came out of the New Music Saturday podcast and a few people have just picked up on it. At the very least, it affords me a little smile after what has been a fairly traumatic year in which I lost my father-in-law, my mother and my job. [Edit: I also emerged from the wreckage of losing my band, the band I formed eight years ago, to a bunch of fairly unpleasant interlopers.] 2019 has got to be better, eh? Edited December 3, 2018 by NancyJohnson 19 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mickeyboro Posted December 3, 2018 Share Posted December 3, 2018 Good on you, pal, and all the best for 2019! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SICbass Posted December 3, 2018 Share Posted December 3, 2018 Congratulations. 🍾 It’s nice to hear of good things happening to good people. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uk_lefty Posted December 3, 2018 Share Posted December 3, 2018 1 hour ago, NancyJohnson said: 2019 has got to be better, eh? Sounds like the end of 2018 is definitely pointing you onwards and upwards! Best of luck 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
petebassist Posted December 3, 2018 Share Posted December 3, 2018 Congratulations mate. Keep on truckin!! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
police squad Posted December 3, 2018 Share Posted December 3, 2018 Yes great work mate. Sorry to learn about your father-in-law and mum. Bring on 2019 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thebigyin Posted December 3, 2018 Share Posted December 3, 2018 Good luck for 2019 looks like you have had a real traumatic last few months all the best 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NancyJohnson Posted December 3, 2018 Author Share Posted December 3, 2018 (edited) ...well in a somewhat bizarre turn of events, I interviewed for a position last week and the agency just called and told me I'd got the position and start on the 17th. Amazingly, I'd initially turned the interview down, largely questioning my abilities, but the agency were told the decision was unanimous and I was head and shoulders over the other applicants. Feeling a bit happier. Edited December 3, 2018 by NancyJohnson 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheddatom Posted December 3, 2018 Share Posted December 3, 2018 Nice one! Where can I hear the album? I googled "lutz band" but not sure which to click on Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NancyJohnson Posted December 3, 2018 Author Share Posted December 3, 2018 (edited) 8 hours ago, cheddatom said: Nice one! Where can I hear the album? I googled "lutz band" but not sure which to click on If you have Spotify/iTunes etc. it's been up on there for about a month. Bandcamp as well (amazingly we've already recouped the outlay of recording it). I'll post a disclaimer here...it's not an easy listen, but as a collection it kind of works well. It's more shouty and aggressive than we planned; it just evolved that way the further we got into it. Just search on 'Lutz' and 'Nowherebound'. Cheers! Edited December 3, 2018 by NancyJohnson Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheddatom Posted December 3, 2018 Share Posted December 3, 2018 nice one, I'll get it from bandcamp and check it out, always like something new and different 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NancyJohnson Posted December 3, 2018 Author Share Posted December 3, 2018 (edited) 6 hours ago, cheddatom said: nice one, I'll get it from bandcamp and check it out, always like something new and different You bought it? Thanks mate. Honestly, you didn't need to do that. PM your email address and I'll send you a couple of other things. There's a radio edit of Light 'Em All Up (changed radio chatter, no use of the word b*stard) and a bass and drum mix of 3rd Shock Army Sniper (I did this on my own over a couple of takes and just left it with the guitarist to do whatever he wanted). Thanks! Edited December 3, 2018 by NancyJohnson Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheddatom Posted December 4, 2018 Share Posted December 4, 2018 No need for that, I buy most of what I listen to! I've just listened on headphones. I really enjoyed it, very different to the other stuff I hear at the moment. It has a bit of a throwback to the 90s with all the distorted vocals, samples, and electronic noises mixed with the band. I recognised the samples on "Light 'em All Up" straight away - I actually used them in an instrumental band I used to be in! There are some awesome bass tones on this album! Did you produce it yourself? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NancyJohnson Posted December 4, 2018 Author Share Posted December 4, 2018 16 minutes ago, cheddatom said: No need for that, I buy most of what I listen to! I've just listened on headphones. I really enjoyed it, very different to the other stuff I hear at the moment. It has a bit of a throwback to the 90s with all the distorted vocals, samples, and electronic noises mixed with the band. I recognised the samples on "Light 'em All Up" straight away - I actually used them in an instrumental band I used to be in! There are some awesome bass tones on this album! Did you produce it yourself? We recorded at the guitarist's studio, which is spread over three rooms off his house in Sandhurst, Berkshire. I used a variety of Tech21 stuff - GED2112/BDDI and the dUg DP-3X - but in the main we ran two feeds, effected and clean. The guitarist produced. The bass tones from the clean feed were pushed through the Ampeg SVX VST-plugin; I don't think we used much of the effected stuff at all. As an aside, it was a very strange recording process. We hadn't played anything as a band at that point, I was just called and asked whether I wanted to 'do some bass', so I just turned up like an eager puppy. It was like, 'I need four bars here, sixteen bars there,' and so on. There weren't any complete songs, but about four or five days later, I would get an email with a very rough sketch of the song I'd recorded earlier; this carried on for 8-10 weeks, I'd go in, do stuff, then go in and revisit the old stuff, do new stuff. We had 20 songs at the end. A couple we just reworked parts into other songs...there was one we didn't touch but ended up not using, which was called Box Of Stupid. It had some Trump samples on it. It just didn't fit, so we parked it pre-mastering. We start #2 in about six hours. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheddatom Posted December 4, 2018 Share Posted December 4, 2018 awesome! That sounds like fun I'm surprised the guitarist produced, the bass is really up front in the mix, I love it! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steantval Posted December 4, 2018 Share Posted December 4, 2018 What ya doing on this site. Should be on Trumpetchat 😀 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teebs Posted December 5, 2018 Share Posted December 5, 2018 Nice one fella 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NancyJohnson Posted November 23, 2019 Author Share Posted November 23, 2019 (edited) Weird resurrection stuff. It's funny how, after such a strong start, things went downhill so quickly. Guitarist and erstwhile producer involved in a low speed motorbike accident a few months ago, shattering his collarbone and arm broken in two places. Prior to this we'd tracked a load of bits, but everything went south while he got straight, so it was somewhat of a lumpy mid-section. Fast forward to November 2019 and he can finally throw on a guitar, so we're back on it again. He's busily cutting and pasting and I'm staggered with how good these results are, most of which I have little or no memory of actually tracking as much as ten months ago. So as 2019 draws to a close, I can only say, hell, 2020 has got to be better, eh? Edited November 23, 2019 by NancyJohnson 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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