Friday, 20th November 09
Paperadio – Making Of The Music Video
A while ago now, I helped out some good friends of mine, Paperadio, on bass for a couple of years. On the night of their farewell show at the Borderline in London, I became an official member for one night only, but it was a good night-only.
During the time playing bass for them, we took a trip to New York City to film a music video for their song Long Narrow Road. I took my video camera and filmed as much of our time as possible to document it. I cut 5 hours of footage down to 28mins or so, restraining myself from using more. It was a lot of fun doing a music video on a rooftop at the foot of the Empire State Building and around Manhattan.
Split into 3 parts, here is the result of our journey to NYC. Props to the very awesome directors of the actual music video, which can watch at the bottom of the post. They are called Twin.
Thursday, 19th November 09
Joe’s Birthday
Joe’s Birthday from Mark Sherratt on Vimeo.
The Making Of The Album Part IV
The song I’m The Ocean, was the first to be recorded for the album, and at the moment it is the first song to be finished. The reason being, is because I recorded it in Australia on my last visit. I was out there for nearly 5 months checking out my home land again and playing gigs there for the first time. Good times.
The opportunity arose to put this track down in a studio near Surrey Hills in Sydney, called Limestone Studio. It was a great little place run by two great guys, Louis Schoorl (from Holand) and Steeve Body (from France). Those guys were a laugh to work with and it was a bit of fluke finding two gents with whom I could feel completely comfortable recording from the word go, having only done a few google searches to find them.
The reason I chose their studio was because, they are producer songwriters, which meant they had all the instruments already in house set up ready to go. This was perfect for me as I only brought my Strat and Vibrolux with me from London, so I had all their stuff at my disposal. Louis and Steeve had some great ideas and I was thus really happy to share the producer title with them for this recording. We all worked well together. If you’re looking for a studio in Sydney, definitely look them up!!
This video has been slapped together fairly quickly as I didn’t have a lot of footage to work with, I need to get someone to film properly next time I’m in the studio! It serves it’s purpose though, documenting the place and the great guys I worked with.