Balustrade sleeping with their eyes open

Confident in their own abilities as musicians, Balustrade gave themselves just 4 hours on Sunday to re-record El Cartinos Blues # 4, record Walking and work out what to do with You Sleep With Your Eyes Open. Two out of Three ain't bad. YOU SLEEP can wait 'till wednesday...
At 5 o'clock, the band decamped to the cinema where they saw a film about a bloke who wears lycra and a fat-lad with mechanical arms, which they thoroughly enjoyed.

El Cartino then got on with his life whilst Sir Lexington (henceforth known as Claudio Ranieri) continued in role of Tinkerman-in-chief and spent the next two days fiddling with guitar parts, worrying about imput levels and re-recording Americana.

When he returned on Alpine Studios on Wednesday evening, Elcartino found the EP in shreds on the floor and Claudio gibbering in the corner, muttering something about "Bass Reduction... I need more Bass Reduction!" like a loon.

One cup of tea later, and all was fine. El Mariachi was finished! El Cartino's Blues # 4 was finished (with some top sleazy blues guitar work from Claudio)! Walking was finished! Americana has been completely re-done and now just needed El C's harmony vocals (sorted)! The Mourning Song was finished! You Sleep With Your Eyes Open.... erm... the lads decided to re-do that one from scratch. Which they did because they're great.

Now, all that remains to be done is the orchestral section of You Sleep, to bring it up to it's full epic majesty. Stop laughing. Claudio will probably do that over the next couple of days, but he was also muttering something about a piano line, so God knows where we'll be in a week's time.

Anyway, the upshot of all that is that;
A) The EP is so near completion it hurts.
B) Final mixdown will occur next week (software permitting)

Balustrade have aksed me to let you know that they are ready to receive orders for copies of the EP. Drop the lads a line on balustrade@hotmail.com and they'll process your order when they can be bothered.

COMING SOON... OFFICIAL BALUSTRADE T-SHIRTS... EVER WANTED TO LOOK LIKE A SEX GOD / KITTEN??? WELL NOW YOU CAN WITH OUR PATENTED BALUSTRADE T-SHIRTS WHICH COME IN A RANGE OF DESIGNS AND SIZES (tiny-lady and fat-lad only). Email balustrade@hotmail.com for for details.

NB: T-shirts will be ready when the boys have got round to designing them. Which will be sometime next year at the current rate.

BALUSTRADE HQ OUT!!