Thursday, June 18, 2009

Dress up EP by Altercation



A year after our last demo recorded at The Enterprise studios, Altercation has finished the recording of the new EP.
The first half of the year 2009 has been pretty chaotic for the band. With irregular drummers for three months, the bass player Pete who has been with us for two years and a half didn't have the enthusiasm to carry on being in a band, and he also realised that his level on the bass had been stucked for too long.

The new year has given Altercation two new members on the rythm section with Vero on the drums who worships Dave Grohl and Nirvana and Ko on the bass who played in metal bands as well than in folk bands for the last ten years.
We've done about 20 rehearsals together working on all the songs, giving them more complexity and shape.
Then we came up with two new tracks, London City and Love Suicide.
Perfect stories of life, craze, loss and melancoly. London City is a statement about the London's lifestyle, the love and hate that every londoners feel towards their own city. But at the end this song is about the certain vibe that London offers you that can makes you feel stronger.
Love Suicide is a teenage ballad that is a mix of all the quiet songs I've done in the past, lyrically speaking. Love Suicide is also the death of the teens year.
Dress up is a clubbing tale, simple and not to be mistaken with a whore diary. ;)

Altercation recorded those three songs at the Area 18 in North Acton with Richard Bignell who worked with a lot of various artists over the years. The production is something that we have missed during our previous recordings. The kind of enginners we had in the past were more interested in the money they get at the end of the day rather than the music itself.
Richard has been helpful and a very good adviser during the whole process of the recording.
The musical chemistry between the new line up of the band has certainly made the experience very rich and inspiring.
The Dress up EP will be available on ITunes very soon.

Altercation is now focusing on gigs and promotion. We'll be playing this Sunday the 21st at the World's End in the heart of Camden Town, from 7pm. It's free to get in so come and join us to end the week end in a rock'n'roll night.
There will be two bands from Paris joining us with HiroshAmour.
We'll also be playing Bar Rumba on the 18th of July, it's just next to Picadilly Circus, it's a rock club. We were supposed to play there two weeks ago but they double booked us, so we have been given another date !
We also have a gig down south of England on the coast on the 28 of August in Margate. Grungy night in an high school area. Club night.
We'll also be in the process of making a video for the first single of the EP, London City.
Banana Castle Records which is our label is in the process of pressing some cds to send out to people at radio stations and promoters, hoping for a positive answer from them all. ;)

That's what on for us at the moment, any news or curiosity for our new songs, go there :

www.myspace.com/altercationmusic