M.A.S.S. are currently going into 2005 writing and rehearsing songs for their second album. This is a space for diary/blog entries as the story unfolds....

Friday, February 11, 2005

.. and so we BEGIN....

After the great response we got from the diary/blog on the M.A.S.S. EURO20004 tour at the end of last year. We are going to have a go at keeping you up to date with events, hopes, fears and aspirations, as we gear ourselves up to record the second album (trying not to be distracted by live gigs but sometimes, for the best reasons, you can't avoid it).
If you want to look back at the 2004 TOUR DIARY by all means - CLICK HERE

Just for the record this week we have been writing and rehearsing in LONDON, UK
It has been mental and resulted in another four new songs to add to the original short list, everyone's been working really hard and it's all coming together.

WHO WILL B THE PRODUCER?
Getting a good producer on board to make things sound even better is also a priority. So we have started to meet and speak to people this week. To be honest, we haven't the biggest budget to record this album but BARCLAY, our record company based in France, seem to be behind us at this point, so we shall see.
We won't be able to give too much away about producers here, as it may affect the process but we put together our wish list of people that we would like to work with at the beginning of all this and the top of our list have got back to us, saying that they love the demos of the new songs, so all good stuff.

BUT WE MIGHT HAVE TO GO BACK OUT ON TOUR ;-)
Finally, to sum up the week, we got a fantastic invite from The Dresden Dolls (haven't checked them out yet? .. you should) .. they like our first CD and have asked us to be their opening guests on some upcoming dates in Germany... couldn't turn down an invitation to play with a fantastic band like that but now it's turning into a mini Euro tour at the beginning of March, we do the dates with The Dolls, possibly a gig in Milan as special guests of The Donnas and then a festival and club show in Switzerland... can't wait for you to hear the new songs. oh, and we have ANOTHER live appearance coming up, at a Tsunami benefit night in London on 19th February