After we released all the Live n Loud albums digitally, We looked at some of the photos taken from those gigs and some of the art we already made, meaning the front covers. And we felt that we should make them into full-fledged Albums with a 4-page booklet and some custom hand made art created by Nina, who painted the awesome under-CD art. So here are the physical versions of our latest live albums.
A must-have for anyone who still uses CDs. I know we do, and we will keep doing so. There is nothing greater than having art on your headphones and art in your hands to read through. I think it's safe to say that holding your phone is not the same. I hope you enjoy our new physical releases.
Greetings and love from Blues Weiser.
Live CD's front covers designed by Jozz:
Live CD's inlay's designed by Nina:
I'm excited to share that my art has been featured in a real project for the first time! I’m really proud of the CD inlays I created for our band's new live album set @blues.weiser—they turned out beautifully!
I created the artwork using watercolors on paper and then captured a photo to fit it into the template with Photoshop.
If you're interested, we still have some copies available for just €5 each. Each CD comes in a maxi-tray with a 4-page booklet and a double-sided back cover.
As we played the Unplugged concert in 2023 in Bar central Calpe we aimed to record the complete show with a live release in mind. We were lucky that the audience filmed it so we could incorporate that in the videos we are releasing of that show.
After mixing, we've released the unplugged album 31st of March on Bandcamp and on all other streaming platforms (including YouTube) on the 8th of August.
Paul, the owner of Bar Central, always films all the gigs that take place in bar central. So with his material and some snippets of the audience we could make a video for every song on the album!
So, for all of you that couldn't be there, we have some great news! We will release a video every Wednesday evening at 7p.m. (GMT +2) until the full show is uploaded on the 2nd of October.
Watch all the video's as they will appear in the playlist on youtube:
And this time it was a little more complicated, because we had some recording errors to overcome.
We had little time to build up, And the stage was still packed with the owner's gear.
With no storage left available, we puzzled til we got it right.
We had all our gear but last minute we decided to give some of his drums a chance, live that sounded fine, but the recordings told a different story.
The place also had bad ground so that resulted in lots of annoying loud ground noise on all tracks. And it caused us to be shocked every time we touched the vocal mic with our lips.
All in all, lots of bumps on the road and a complicated mix procedure later, I think we made the most of what we had!!!!
But, Jozz wouldn't be himself if he didn't turn all of this upside down and made the gig sound better than ever! Amazing results show that he has truly become both a great mixer and producer!
So, have a listen for yourself, of our 2023 Almería Live & Loud gig!
In a previous post we stated that Jozz was busy mixing the last live album we recorded on the 1st of September in Almería... He is still working on this and it is going to sound awesome!
He also started working on the Universe is Rigged album, starting with the track "Beggers Can't Be Choosers". He recorded all of the vocals and is almost finished mixing the first track! So we're very excited and looking forward to this!
Then some sad news: After a break of nearly 6 months, due to Mike's operation on his knee last november, we sat together and had to conclude that the three of us are not looking in the same direction and we don't want the same thing in the end...
So, we will be looking for a new drummer.
We decided that Jozz will be doing all the drums on the new songs.
For those of you that don't know: Bandsintown.com is a website where you, as a band, can enter the where & when of your gigs. Another one for example is Songkick. Songkick also shows your gigs at your Spotify and Bandcamp pages, however they don't allow you to fill in "Past gigs" so to say.
Because Bandsintown let's you add gigs in the past we decided to use Bandsintown on our website for both upcoming and past gigs overview. This way our fans can see where we play, but also where we've played (and let us know they were there!)
In the past year I have allready added a lot of 'lost gigs' to the Bandsintown website for the years 2016 and 2017, but now I have come across approximately 30 gigs for 2014 and an equal number of gigs for 2015. Both years have never been added to Bandsintown so this is what I am doing this weekend😅
So now it is time to fill in all the dates of 'before 2016' to our Bandsintown
Wanna be updated when we have a show?
Go to our Bandsintown and click follow as shown in the example above.
Well, after mixing and releasing the Live & Unplugged Calpe album, the Live & Loud Gandía AND Calpe albums, Jozz is now working hard mixing the last live album we recorded on the 1st of September in Almería.
He also started working on the Universe is Rigged album, recorded in 2018 but got postponed because we wanted to write a new album with our new drummer Michael. He is recording the vocals and mixing the first track "Beggers Can't Be Choosers" so we will keep you updated!
Jozz uploaded the Live in Gandía album on Spotify, for all of you to hear, check it out here:
We have decided to bring this Blogpost page up to date with the latest news!
There has been A LOT happening in the past years, since there hasn't been a new post after the deal we signed with Sunrock Bookings in 2019...
Due to all Social Media changes, there's information 'lost' everywhere, and we decided to bring it all together in one spot and fill in the gaps with information that's never been posted before!
While we are also gonna keep you posted of what we are doing right now.
So, I am mainly busy with organizing and archiving or in other words, combining all the information of our Facebook & Instagram accounts with the 2(!) blogposts pages we had... Jozz is going through his archives.
Together we will be able to add all information, photo's and video's from the old times, so yeah keep on checking for updates!
We will also post any new happenings on this blogpost and make it active again!
WOW! We are really excited to have recorded a new song!!!
It's called How've You Been and here is a fragment of recording of the drums and bass... We put some video's in the room and catched the actual moment we recorded it! Other video fragments are taken on the same day when we drove to the practice room...
When we've uploaded the documentary video to youtube we will post the link here.
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