"Pretty Pageant"

This song was a pain in the ass to record and mix! Even thou we balanced the drums in stereo for Empty Dance Halls before recording it, they came out in mono, but we used the right leads in this song, all the drums are panned out from left to right in the final mix! During the recording of the drums I spilt a WHOLE glass of water on my me-50 and made shit of it! I had to open it up when I got home and throw it into the hot-press for a couple of days and its happy out now! Had to borrow Foleys me-50 for this song, cheers dude! It was actually fun sitting down with Emer and going thru all the parts in the song and seeing what would suit each part and chopping and changing, we never did that with Darren..

Once again, this song was written late at night when the main guitar part came into my head and I sang it into my Dictaphone. Best tool ever!

There is a lot going on in this song, I think ¼ of it got lost in the final mix, but I think the last minute guitar riff I added for the chours and the backing vocals really took the song in the opposite direction. Thanks to Emer and Dav for supplying the beats and bass once again, Id be lost without ye! And thanks for Podge for trying the backing vocals! Ha!

Someone told me this song sounds like Coldplay, buh.?!!