I went and saw Luke play with in a jazz trio yesterday at Sappho books in Glebe. The place reminded me of Black Books (in a good way). The music was top notch and the bookshop/cafe was really well designed. All the outside walls had been subject to mass scale art; such a great idea. Not too long into the set, they were also subject to a thunderstorm.

Yesterday Luke and I were in Newtown for lunch. We parked in this side street and as I got out of the car we noticed this art gallery sort of thing. The doors were open so we wandered in and met a guy called Nick. Turns out it is a space that a production group does whatever they want with it – short films, theatre productions, art shows. It was a great space.

It was all set up for a book launch and they had all this really impressive art on the walls – turns out they were the original sketches. Luke and I were rapt in them. Nick invited us back for the book launch but we couldn’t make it. I found these pictures on their website. The book is called ‘Midnight Morning‘.

I spent this week in the studio with FisherKing. It was a massive week but such a great experience. I have never really been involved in a recording that was this professional. The studio had such a warm vibe with all these rad lamps and low light. Even though it was pretty hectic, when it wasn’t your turn to record it was pretty easy to relax.

Genevieve, who ran the studio and was our producer, was an absolute blast and really brought the songs to life. Since Genevieve is a guitarist as well, it meant that I got to do some cool things; play with a few amps, swap between different guitars, experiment with pedals and different combinations, layer guitar tracks one over the other, plus (my favourite), getting a massive Marshall Stack, turning it right up and getting different feedback sounds for a whole song. Too much fun! I was giggling like a little girl which even came out on the recording.

It was hard to take photos since we didn’t really want to distract people recording and also since we were usually distracted, but I did get a few that I was happy with.