Slowly but surely, we continue to build our own Wall Of Sound. MORE GUITARS!!!!

Magic Dirt posed that very question on their album of the year 2000. We here at Matheson by no means profess to be rockstars, mind. But they bring up a very good point.

Its been a while since we posted anything here. I thought it was time to update you. I don’t feel to bad about it, though – The Drones haven’t updated their site since August last year, either!

Anyway, today, us rockstars will be back in the studio. I’ve just come from there, actually. And at about 1:15am – I’m proud to say – Matheson turned METAL!

Well, not fully metal. We haven’t gone Metal On Metal. But we might have found the new sound. You’re going to want to stock up on fresh pairs of socks when we release our new album – because it will knock your socks off. All of them. Get some bandages to wrap around your head, or find yourself a tight beanie – because it’ll blow your mind!

This is all a longhanded way of saying “The new songs sound BIG and TOUGH”. The ones we worked on tonight do, anyway. And I welcome it!

Now, though, I feel like a zombie. The boys from Yacht Club DJs might look like zombies (and you can too if you’re quick – that’s where I’d be tomorrow if we weren’t recording), but I stumbled out into a hot Ballarat night certainly feeling like the walking dead.

So that’s what rockstars are doing today – hiding from the Ballarat heat in a recording studio, cranking out the Sonic Youth-style NOYZE!!!!

See you in a few weeks at the Begonia Festival (March 12). I’ll try post some photos tomorrow for those interested….

Increase the peace,

Steve-o

The time has come to… PUSH THE BUTTON! That’s right, we’re starting recording tomorrow (or today, depending on how you look at it – Its almost 2am as I write this).

I’ve just got home from the studio, having set up the drums and tested they all still work. The Ferginator has been there for even longer, running all the lines and checking all the levels.

So we’re ready to press record. I’m going to try and document things throughout the day. You’ll see the results on here at some stage.

Sleep time!

Steve

A few people have been wondering what’s crack-a-lackin’ round at La Maison de Matheson.  They’d say, “Hey, Steve?  What’s crack-a-lackin’ at La Maison de Matheson?”  My answer of late has been, “I don’t know the way to the library”.  But then I figured out how to translate things and now I understand.

Here’s what goes on:

• We made a video.

And yes, It took me all day to make the album cover

• We’re heading into the studio in a couple of weeks.  We’re going to start the new record.  I can’t wait.
• We’ll be playing Karova Lounge’s 7th Birthday weekend (see below).  They grow up so quickly, don’t they?

One day, I’ll post the back of that album cover.  I had to photoshop my pyjama pants out of the photo on the back!

I share too much, sometimes.

Cheers,

Steve

Karova’s 7th Birthday is coming up on the weekend on July 22/23.  For this special occasion we will be supporting Ballarat legends ‘The Dead Salesmen’. It is always an absolute honour playing with these guys and we are extremely looking forward to the whole shebang.

This is gonna be an amazing night so come one down and join in the celebrations!

As it turns out, we got busier than we thought we would.  And to prevent that wonderful ‘mobile-phone-digital-sound-you-get-when-your-phone-is-too-close-to-a-speaker’ noise, we all had our phones off – so we couldn’t blog as much as we wanted to.

Still, we had fun.  The demo session is over, we’ve all gone home and I, for one, am utterly exhausted.  But, as a treat, I leave you with this little gem:

Yep, I’m enjoying myself as much as it appears.  I’m in my Happy Place.

Thanks to The Ferginator from Brown Note Recordings for helping us today.  Legend.  Raw and unmixed, it still sounds tip-top.  He’ll be pushing the buttons when it comes to recording the album for real, too.

Maybe, dear reader, you’ll get to hear the odd track from today’s session.  We’ll see, we’ll see.

Time for my head to hit the pillow – off to my Happy Place!

Cheers,

Steve and the lads.

We’ve loaded some gear in and we’re about to press the record button.  I think the record button its just the Space Bar.  Ready to rock!

For our eagle-eyed readers, I think you can guess where we are….

Cheers,

Steve

Hey team,

Tomorrow marks a new chapter for the band.  I’d like to call it

“The Chapter Where Matheson Started On A New Record Proper”.

We’re starting the demo process, recording the new songs we’ve had kicking around.  You won’t hear these versions of the songs – they’re just rough ideas for when we hit the ‘real’ studio later on.  Actually, you might hear them.  We might release some back here on our website, just as a treat.

I’ve got a bunch of camera gear, too, so you might see some footage from these demo sessions in the near future.

We’ll keep you posted.  We might even blog the day as we roll.  Depends how busy we are.

Keep your ears to the ground,

Steve

Due to circumstances beyond our control, our show at Karova on Good Friday has been cancelled. It’s OK – there’s nothing wrong with any of the guys in the band, there’s just some regulations that need to be observed on that day which have forced the cancellation.

Shame, too. I really wanted to see Juan play.

Still, I’m sure there will be another time coming up soon(ish).  So think of it not as a cancellation, but more of a postponement.

Until next time,

The lads.

Are you a fan of fuschia, fashion, waterworks and Australian television icon Georgie Parker? We are – now that all of these elements have been combined with our song ‘Let The Satellites Fall‘ in the latest episode of Home and Away. If you want to check it out, visit here:

http://au.tv.yahoo.com/home-and-away/video/-/watch/24873485/home-and-away-tue-12-apr-episode-5272/

You’ll have to visit on a machine with Flash support, and if you’re not a fan of advertisements, try skipping to 16:13 in the timeline. Mind you, the episode has songs from our faves Band Of Horses and fellow Aussies Sparkadia. So its a decent watch.

Cheers,

Steve