An album in a day!

13.10 - Tugboat Willy with the word on the street
We live in exciting times, ladies and gentlemen... Messy Angelo has joined me up in Super-Amazing Studios for an attempt to make a whole goddamn album in a day. So, under the project name of The Pinkos we have to produce either 20 mins/30 songs worth of music in the next, well, 24 hours. (Check out the Album-a-Day homepage for more info.) Messy has given the optimistic prediction of 4 hours for us to get this thing done. We'll see.

14.15 - Messy's Update
Tensions are running high, and despite Tugboat's obvious desire to cave my skull in with a guitar and feast on the juicey insides, we must continue with this album in a day project. We've completed the bare bones of our first tune in just about an hour and it's quite a nice little number, so hopefully the brain eating can be staved off til we get the next few tunes down. Ableton was wanky for some reason today so we switched back to the old favourite, Acid. Now it's my turn to get behind the production table and start a tune... (that's how we're doing this, writing and producing a song each in turn, with help from the other). Anyway, we gots to get back to work, so I'll type at y'all real soon.

15.25 - Tugger's Report
A tiring hour later we've got another one basically down... This one's pret-ty hot, we think. Our plan of using the TV to find names for our songs (we turn it on and the first thing someone says, we use as the title) has proven successful so far: "We Want Her Home", "At One Time in France" and "Kids Go Free" are what we've got so far. Hotte boogie woogie. Keep it peeled, and hopefully we'll have an album for you in the next 22 hours!

16.30 - Gobs of Wisdom, from Messy
We've been hard at it in Super Amazing Studios, and we've crafted our Bravery tribute song "Him Being Here is not a Problem" into near perfection over the past hour. The album has a sort of guiding principle keeping the songs together it would seem, on listening back to the songs. This is good, because I was sure it would sound like two seperate albums mashed together. Anyway, we're away to crap in a bowl, then stick it in the oven, and keep on serving you guys the hot shit that results. Back in an hour or so ...

17.45 - Tuggle my wuggle
Another slice on the pan: "Sometimes it's Hard to Make It Look Easy". And y'know something? There's great truth in that title. This is a difficult undertaking, and incredibly tiring, but we estimate we're gonna get this mutha done by 5a.m. When we start consuming alcohol in a few hours, it's gonna make it either a lot easier or a lot harder, but certainly more fun... Onwards and upwards.

21.26 - Uh oh, somebody made a Mess(y Angelo type song)
Anyway, we've had our dinner break, during which I ate some goddamn tastey and devil benighted hot curry, and we've had the addition of artist/guitarist Brian Mc Devitt (operating under his Bunnyhop moniker? I haven't asked) so things are looking fairly sexy for this album in a day. It's eight hours in and we have 6 solidly well developed songs clocking in at over 12 minutes, so we really only need maybe four more and some vocals to be home free. Artists corner over by Brian is also looking creatively fertile, so expect some artbabies for the cover to be born kicking and screaming anytime soon. BACK TO WORK!

22.11 - Tug(boat) on my Willy please
While Sir Messy d'Angelo fannies about creating his newest opus, I'll sketch Super-Amazing studios as it is right now. Brian is trying to shine a laser in our eyes; I'm typing this; and Diarmaid is writing a new song. The barrel-wielding sailor from the Dutch Gold cans has joined us and is now our muse/slavemaster.

23.04 - Heaven must be missing an (Messy) Angel(o)
Another hour, another post. It's been ten hours since we undertook this crazy mission, and yet another slovenly, sleepy guitar track has been laid down, to be accompanied by vocals later on in the sexy sexy night. Brian hates me. He keeps yelling abuse at me. I wet myself one time he did, I'm away to change now in a minute. I'm gonna just say I have to use the bathroom and hope no-one notices I come back with Tugboat's pants on. The lads went on an expidition to the shops, and came back with a bounty of Doritos, Pringles and a few extra Dutch. It will be a majestic night. Keep on truckin.

00:06 - Drawin shit
this is your boy brian drawin shit going well so far got the sky down screaming phoenix and shit fuckin all y'all up need to figure out earth and sea as this album entails the entire world, was attempting to draw naked woman to represent earth it shall be so and we shall get of on said image she shall be cold on the outside but warm once youre allowed in...................................musics shite

01:22 - Tuggered out
Alright. So, tunes-wise, we've nearly reached our target. We've done NINE songs. Some are good. Some are not so good. Others are excellent. Others still don't quite do what we wanted them to. And a last portion. Meanwhile, Brian's artwork is coming on like a big old load of smen. Whatever that is.

03:47 - The Tao of the Pinkos/Messy
Lifted directly from the Tao of Steve, a godawful shitty film that's currently (dis)gracing channel 4 at the moment. Anyway, it's 14 hours in and we've finally laid down all the tracks that I think we're going to lay down, not including any extra tweaking we may do in post-production, and it's sounding hot enough. Roll on the vocals, which may well be tough to handle, but we are the men for the job ... Fuck yo. It's gonna be hot. We portly slackers rock.

04.48 - Tugjobs 'r' Us
'Post-production', they call it. 'Dicking around til it sounds half-decent and making up lyrics on the spot', we call it. Currently we have some lyrics written but that shit isn't commited to 'tape'. In other news, Brian's a homo. Eight and a half hours left, and we don't intend to use all of 'em. Keep it foolish.

13.56 - All the everybody
Fantastically, WE ARE FINISHED! Ten utterly decent tunes and some fine-ass artwork, all completed in (just about) 24 hours, baby. Sadly, we did cave in to the sleep monster at one point, for 4 hefty hours, but we felt it was necessary. We'd probably have ended up doing some silly things to the music otherwise. We added all our amazing vocals this morning and "post-produced" The Long Wind - as we've called this venture - all while eating toast. To celebrate, we'll have a nice wee sleep this afternoon and party party party the night away at our launch party! Tonight! Expect the mp3s real soon. Peace out peeps.

The Pinkos - The Long Wind
01 We Are Live
02 It's a Shocker!
03 Kids Go Free
04 At One Time in France
05 When Does He Appear?
06 Everybody Stands Up at the Same Time
07 Sometimes it's Hard to Make it Look Easy
08 Sleep Every Night
09 Him Being Here is not a Problem
10 We Want Her Home