Digitizing original 4 track demos by LONDON AFTER MIDNIGHT

[Noelle666]

"Digitizing original 4 track demo cassettes of London After Midnight songs, most from just before I formed the band.
If you recall, recently I was looking for a 4 track cassette recorder. Well my friend and LAM's original bass player Michael Areklett lent me one he happened to have (which is ironic since he borrowed mine many years ago and it was lost, which is why I was looking for one). Sadly it doesn't work that well, so that's why I had to vivisect it and have it all opened up while it's playing (otherwise the tapes might get stuck in the machine).
Here we have the original version of Spider and the Fly that no one has ever heard. Until now. As you can hear the song isn't yet complete or in its final form, this was a REALLY early demo of the song." Sean Brennan

@темы: Видео

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M'era Luna 2018

[Noelle666]

На фестивале M'era Luna в 2018 году одними из хэдлайнеров станут London After Midnight. Дата - 11 августа, суббота.
Если вы хотите, чтобы в этом году группа посетила и иные страны Европы и Россию, пожалуйста, пишите промоутерам. Чем больше голосов, тем выше шанс увидеть любимую группу в своём городе!
Список промоутеров и концертных агентств по всему миру вы можете найти, кликнув сюда.

@темы: Видео, ссылки, концерты

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Behind the Scenes w/ LONDON AFTER MIDNIGHT: Recording Drums

[Noelle666]

Behind the Scenes with LONDON AFTER MIDNIGHT: Video from Facebook Live Stream Event - Recording Drums for New Albums.

Recording drums for the upcoming LAM albums "Oddities 2" and the all new LAM album (titled not yet reveled). The studio is the same studio where "Selected Scenes from the End of the World" was recorded! Like the London After Midnight Facebook page and follow Sean Brennan's profile for future live events! Links also in comments below.

NOTE- this is video from Facebook Livestream event from last week, hence the video quality is fairly low. (с) Sean Brennan

@темы: Видео

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Behind the Scenes with LONDON AFTER MIDNIGHT: Digitizing the original "Selected Scene

[Noelle666]

Много текста от Шона, интересные истории

Gearing up for recording "Oddities 2" and the all new London After Midnight album (title not yet officially revealed), I thought I would also digitize the 24 track master tapes from the 1991 "Selected Scenes from the End of the World" recording sessions. I wanted to do this in order to preserve the audio because tape can degrade over time. So transferring it to a computer was the plan. I recorded "Selected Scenes…" in September of 1991, before computers took over recording studios, so it was recorded on tape.

For those unfamiliar- I used 2 inch wide reel to reel tape that you could record multiple tracks on. You would then mix that 2 inch multi track master down to a stereo master tape (normally a 1 inch wide tape or DAT tape, etc) from which you would get all your CDs manufactured.

Over the years that 1 inch master tape was taken by a former live player in London After Midnight, who has since vanished. I had wanted to digitize the audio from that stereo master tape in order to release an all new cleaner version of the album. But all I had were the 24 track 2 inch master tapes.

And that was a problem, or so I thought. For years I thought it was pointless to get these 24 track 2 inch multi track tapes digitized because I thought some elements were missing (long explanation about mixing removed- to put it simply, I thought the keyboard tracks may not be on the tape because they might have been run in real time from a sequencer as I made that master 1 inch stereo tape. You would do that in order to save room on the tape, because I only had 24 tracks to record on and a drum kit alone can take up to 14 tracks).

So, on Monday night during a downpour in Los Angeles Pete Pace Drummer, Matthew NotMatt Setzer and I entered a studio that LAM's drummer Pete Pace had recently recorded (another story on this studio below, which is the TRULY strange part of this story). I put the reels on the machine at the studio and played them for the first time since 1991. To my utter astonishment, I found the keyboard audio that I thought might be missing is actually there! I recorded stereo keyboard tracks either as a safety, reference, or these are the actual tracks you hear on CD.

Now this may not seem like a revelation to you but for me it's pure gold. I had ALL the tracks on separate channels with NOTHING missing. Also, on reviewing the 24 track masters I found the songs to be perfectly preserved, crystal clear like it was recorded yesterday. The muddy mixes you've come to know over time of 'Sacrifice', 'Spider and the Fly', 'Revenge', etc, are not what the songs truly sound like. To me I always thought the album was mixed wrong by the engineer who I hired in 1991 (the only one I could afford then). The 24 track tape shows the raw songs are much cleaner, more powerful and detailed than the currently available songs would lead you to believe.

That can happen when you mix an album if you don't know what you're doing. And my engineer didn't, apparently. And I was a VERY young kid then, I didn't know my way around a recording studio at all so I allowed the engineer a great deal of leeway in the decisions as far as mixing. As a result some major mistakes were made (for example the original 'Your Best Nightmare' from the original cassette and 1995 CD release of "Selected Scenes…"- you can hear a girl moaning during the intro and bridge. This was supposed to be masked by lots audio manipulation, the end result being only a whispery, almost subliminal, suggestion of a passionate moan. But the engineer just couldn't accomplish what I wanted. That's why this version of the song was removed from the 2003 Trisol and 2007 Metropolis re-releases. Other mistakes were made with the mix, too, which always left me unsatisfied with the current version of "Selected Scenes from the End of the World".

But, now I have these individual tracks perfectly crystal clear and separated and I can remix them to sound as they should have originally sounded. I was amazed at how good it sounded, as is, without all the heavy reverb that the engineer ruined the original mix with. So, a seemingly hopeless dream has become a very real probability- that I can finally remix this and release the ultimate correct version of "Selected Scenes from the End of the World".

Now the question is would you guys be interested in this? I guarantee it would be worth it. I am also going to try and locate the original tapes for 'Nightmare' and Claire's Horrors', which are also on "Selected Scenes..". These were recorded earlier at a different studio on an 8 or 16 track recording system. All this can be cleaned up and remastered (for both CD/digital and maybe 12 inch vinyl). But again, is this something that LAM fans might be interested in? A clean, clear version of "Selected Scenes…", remastered correctly, mixed correctly, etc…? Let me know.

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Ok, now the weird part of this story. I recorded "Selected Scenes…" at two studios. I started at a studio in Van Nuys CA and had since forgotten the name and location. Then we moved to a studio in Burbank CA called Red Zone (which I thought closed because whenever I Googled it there was no result). I had since forgotten the exact locations of both studios but I wanted to try and find them.

Before having older tapes run through a tape machine you're usually asked to bake them, literally, in an oven. Over time moisture can cause the tapes to become sticky, which causes problems, so you bake them to get the moisture out. So last week I brought the tapes to a place in Burbank CA to have them baked. In the meantime I did some research again to try and find the exact location of the old Red Zone studio, where half the recording was done. Surprisingly a new result came up in Google in relation to a studio now called Glenwood Place Studios. When I went to pick up my tapes from being baked 2 days later I turned the corner and there was Glenwood Place (the street). I drove another block and there was the studio. Glenwood Place Studios was just the new name for Red Zone. Literally just about 2 blocks from where I got the tapes baked was the original studio where I recorded "Selected Scenes…", on the very same tapes on the seat next to me in my car. I finally found the location of the old Red Zone. But I still didn't know what the other studio was called. So half the mystery remained.

For recording the new songs for the all new LAM album and Oddities 2 (remember, 2 albums are coming), I was originally going to use a studio near the San Francisco area. But that wasn't all that convenient and we decided to go to a studio that Pete Pace, LAM's drummer, had recently recorded at. It turns out they also transfer 2 inch multi track tapes to digital format, so I scheduled a session for that on Monday, and the following Thursday we'd go back to record drums.

So last Monday I set out in the rain to Van Nuys to go to this unknown studio to transfer the tapes. When I walked in the door I almost fainted- THIS was the first studio where I started recording "Selected Scenes…"! The one I couldn't remember the name of or location and was lost forever to time. The one where I came up without the title "Selected Scenes from the End of the World" while sitting on the floor by the mixing board. Where I recorded 'Sacrifice' and 'Spider and the Fly'. It was an emotional jolt from the past, strange, even bitter-sweet given some things that have occurred since 1991, to walk in there with the original tapes, again; play them on the machine (maybe the SAME machine I used in 1991 and definitely through the same mixing console). Everything had gone in a circle and "Selected Scenes…" was back to where it all started, just days away from the commencement of even more recording for two new LAM albums. Anyway- it may not seem strange to anyone else (but it should), but to me it was sort of mind blowing. For years I wondered where this studio was, if it even existed anymore, and just by chance, by Pete having recorded there recently, I was back in the same studio where it all began. (с) Sean Brennan

@темы: Видео, selected scenes from the end of the

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[Noelle666]

Если кто-то вдруг не спит/не хочет спать, то ребята внезапно решили постримить работу над альбомом.
Записи можно посмотреть на странице The Naughty Bits - www.facebook.com/officialbits
и в группе LAM в Фейсбуке - www.facebook.com/pg/LAMofficial/posts/?ref=page...

плюс два видео

@темы: Видео

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Behind the Scenes with LONDON AFTER MIDNIGHT: Oddities 2 Teaser

[Noelle666]

Тизер! Время тизеров!

"Recording with Isaura String Quartet for Oddities 2." - Sean Brennan

@темы: Видео, oddities

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London After Midnight @ WGT promo LAM 2015

[Noelle666]

@темы: Видео

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WGT 2015 - Love & After the End of the World

[Noelle666]

В видео под катом фокус на Шоне

ATEOTW плюс один

Love плюс один

@темы: Видео, концерты

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Rehearsal 4/15

[Noelle666]

Ребята к чему-то готовятся, но молчат. И репетируют.

London After Midnight at rehearsal this weekend. Preparing for???
Follow LAM on instagram, Facebook, Twitter and Youtube:
instagram.com/lamofficial
www.facebook.com/LAMofficial
twitter.com/LAMofficial
www.youtube.com/LAMtv

+ видео с репетиции

@темы: Видео

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Kiss video preview (Summer European tour 2014)

[Noelle666]

A photo posted by Instagram

@темы: Видео, концерты

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London After Midnight - I'm No Angel

[Noelle666]

Имя данной песни уже много лет назад фигурировал в каком-то интервью. Якобы это - одна из "новых" на тот момент песен. Кажется, её имя звучало ещё до релиза VAoB.

Как оказывается - данная песня на самом деле была одна из первых в истории LAM, но так и не увидела официального релиза. Возможно, песня будет выпущена на планируемом Шоном альбоме Oddities 2.

Песня выложена первым барабанщиком LAM Иэном Хаасом. Несмотря на его комментарий, что "песня не была официально выпущена до данного момента", хочу заметить, что официально дать жизнь данной песне может лишь Шон. Пока что она висит на Ю Тубе - успейте послушать и насладиться старым звучанием LAM.

@темы: Видео

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Rehearsal 2015

[Noelle666]

Шон выложил на канале LAMtv два коротеньких видео с недавней репетиции.

Плюс ещё одно

@темы: Видео, ссылки

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Black Cat & Love You to Death lyrics videos

[Noelle666]

На канале LAMtv появились два новых видео на песни Black Cat и Love You to Death с текстами песен.

+ Love You to Death

@темы: Видео, ссылки, violent acts of beauty, selected scenes from the end of the

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Видео с концерта в Лос-Анджелесе

[Noelle666]

Спасибо Curtains of Lament (LAM community) за фото и видео концерта

Видео лежит здесь, как я понимаю, его можно скачать (это не весь концерт, а нарезка).

И просто бонусом - Лор и Шон.

@темы: Видео, фотографии, ссылки, концерты

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London After Midnight - Live in Moscow (24.07.2014) ~Full Length~

[Noelle666]

@темы: Видео, концерты

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London After Midnight - Love (new song), Moscow, July 24

[Noelle666]

Видео с новой песней из Москвы. Есть ещё видео из Петербурга, где звук лучше, но вешать я бы его не хотела. Просто потому что в Петербурге Шон совсем сорвал голос, и это явно слышно в записи.
Видео не моё.

@темы: Видео, концерты

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London After Midnight - Encore: KISS & Sacrifice - Live in Moscow (24.07.2014)

[Noelle666]

@темы: Видео, концерты

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Day 2, "London After Midnight" European Tour 2014

[Noelle666]

Сегодня просто день всего нового, так что прошу прощения, но лента будет забита)

Day 2, "London After Midnight" European Tour 2014 from Matthew Setzer on Vimeo.

@темы: Видео, концерты

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Talking in Dresden (18.07.2014)

[Noelle666]

Думаю, это будет интересно. На концерте в Дрездене у группы случались неприятности - постоянно отказывала техника. И, чтобы заполнить паузы, ребята рассказали несколько историй.

На видео история первая начинается не с начале - Шон рассказывает о Роззе Уильямсе (Christian Death), поэтому под катом приложена текстовая версия (за что Шону огромнейшее спасибо). Там как оригинал на английском, так и мой перевод (если в переводе ошибки или/и не точности - пожалуйста, сообщите - я исправлю).

Oh, you really had to be there for this to make sense. The talking, taken out of context of the REPEATED equipment failures of the night and the constant pauses between songs, looses a lot and seems silly. Anyway, this was being talked about because there were repeated equipment problems in the club where we couldn't play. So we had to fill the time some way. I jokingly asked the crowd to ask questions and some guy asked if I knew Rozz Williams. So I told a story about Rozz, where I was buying food (a bunch of healthy veggies) in a supermarket and Rozz got in line behind me with a bottle of whiskey (I let him get in front of me because he only had one item). It sort of sadly sort of illustrated his life as an addict and being troubled. And then this story came up (the girl, named Tiffany, I remember now, was supposedly a girlfriend of Rozz at some point). She was a girl I never met but was obsessed with me and would call our band voice mail line that LAM had back then repeatedly - every night for months and months. She was a heroine addict and a prostitute, apparently. She soon moved to New York City where she was killed by some famous mass murdered and cut into pieces. They found her remains in a car trunk on the street. I think you can find this on Google somewhere. Again, I never knew her or met her but it was just another Rozz-related story.

О, ты действительно должна была быть там, чтобы всё стало ясно. Рассказ, вырванный из контекста из-за ПОВТОРЯЮЩИХСЯ сбоев оборудования той ночью и постоянные паузы между песнями, многое потерял и выглядит глупо. В любом случае, об этом состоялся разговор, потому что в клубе были повторяющиеся проблемы с оборудованием, когда мы не могли играть. Так что надо было как-то заполнить паузу. Я шутливо попросил публику задать вопросы, и какой-то парень спросил, знал ли я Розза Уильямса. Поэтому я рассказал историю о Роззе, когда я покупал в супермаркете еду (кучу здоровых овощей), и Розз встал в очередь за мной с бутылкой виски (я позволил ему встать передо мной, так как у него была всего лишь одна покупка). Это, своего рода, грустная иллюстрация его жизни, как зависимого человека, погрязшего в неприятностях. А потом всплыла эта история (девушка по имени Тиффани, теперь я вспомнил, предположительно была девушкой Розза, в каком-то смысле). Я никогда не был знаком с этой девушкой, но она была без ума от меня и названивала нашей группе и оставляла повторяющиеся звуковые сообщения на почте, которая у нас тогда была - это происходило каждую ночь на протяжении месяцев. У неё была зависимость от героина и, видимо, она была проституткой. Вскоре она переехала в Нью-Йорк, где была убита неким знаменитым серийным убийцей и порезана на куски. Её останки нашли в багажнике автомобиля на улице. Думаю, где-то в Гугле это можно отыскать. Опять же, я никогда её не знал и не встречал, но это была всего лишь очередная история, связанная с Роззом

@темы: Видео

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Интервью для Звуки.Ру и Darkside + видео из Франкфурта

[Noelle666]

Вышло ещё два новых интервью на русском языке. Доступны по ссылкам ниже.

Интервью для Звуки.Ру

Интервью для Darkside

Напоминаю - завтра (24го июля) состоится концерт в Москве, а послезавтра, в пятницу (25го июля) в Санкт-Петербурге! Покупайте билеты скорее, если ещё этого не сделали!

И для затравочки - видео из Франкфурта.

@темы: Видео, ссылки, концерты, интервью