In Dunedin with Dale Cotton - engineer of 'Koile's newly released EP Te Hua we recorded from Thursday lunchtime until Friday 4am in the morning...so for Pos and Chris Searle on drums and me with guide vocal - a straight 16 hours. Pos played all of that time with Hemi Lesatele flying in on Thursday evening to play in his parts.
During this session we were facebook-ing Andrew Sione ( Pos's right hand guitar player for this project) who was in Las Vegas, to let him know we were missing him. He messaged back to tell us that he won't make it back in the planned time-frame to record with us, so by the end of the weekend we'd hatched a plan with him. He was working off 'Pro-Tools' too in a studio where he was staying, recording an album with his group over there. So we were able to use the website 'You Send It' to upload the files of what we'd recorded in Dunedin, so he could use them as a guide, record his parts and then upload them back onto the 'You Send It' site for us to download again. Amazing.
A month later (and only a week ago) Christchurch was hit badly by an earthquake - 7.1 on the Richter scale http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/videos/4096608
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/canterbury-earthquake/4119875/Canterbury-quake-Everyones-a-journalist
Thankfully no-one died, and for us we had no damage, loss or injury. It freaked us out and stopped us in our tracks, but by the next few days we were able to continue with the planned recording session with Seta Timo. Seta Timo was bass player with PU from 1999 - 2002, and has since joined us in the Island Summer shows when-ever possible. Pos, Seta and I headed down to Rob Payne's place and there they recorded Seta on acoustic bass, with 3 songs to complete in the next few days.
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| Seta on bass and Pos listening in |
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