Tuesday May 11th 2010
Saturday night at D'arcey McGees was a blast, The band played till gone midnight, and The Fundraiser went very well indeed. The Ottawa Fury Under 15 girls soccer team gave the band a nice gift basket for playing (always nice to get free beer)
We Picked up quite a few new Big Chill fans At D'arcy McGees and It looks like we will be playing there again sometime soon (watch this space)
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Saturday May 8th 8:30pm - Close
Hosted at Darcey McGee's, 360 Moodie Drive, Bells Corners, the doors open at 8:30pm and Big Chill, returning for an encore performance, will kick off the evening at 9:00pm.
Tickets are $4 - Please contact Shelley for tickets at slbraun@rogers.com.
Expect great door prizes, appetizers and a whole lot of good stuff to bid on. There will be deals! Care to start bidding now? See the auction items online at http//furysilentauction.blogspot.com
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
Thursday, April 1, 2010
CD Release in review
What a great night it was:
Big Chill would like to thank you all for coming out to our CD release party on Saturday March 27th. The feedback on the CD has been great, The feedback on the gig has been fantastic, all in all a great time had by all. I have never seen Tables being moved so quickly to create a bigger dance floor. you guys really wanted to dance. I have been asked to let people know where they can get a copy of the CD. Well, we will make sure we carry some CD's at our gigs, or you can email us at bigchill@mail.com eiter way, we will make sure you get one.
Cheers to you all
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Peter Feldman talks about recording the new CD
It all started with the idea of a demo.
When a band is relatively new on the scene and looking for gigs, a demo is a quick way to get the band in front of a few designated listeners, i.e. club owners and bookers. So it came down to the question of which three or four tunes we’d like to include to best showcase the group.
This was easier said than done. We eventually narrowed our “book” down to 10 songs that we felt showed Big Chill at its best. Somehow, the discussion evolved to “Why don’t we do a CD?” After a bit of thrashing around, we liked the idea. At the very least, it was something that friends of ours could have as a souvenir!
We decided right off the top that even if it wasn’t to be a “live off the floor” recording, we wanted the CD to be the best possible representation of Big Chill’s live sound—no overdubbing, no extra instruments. So rehearsed our list of 10 tunes for two solid weeks—around 14 hours of rehearsal.
When we went in to record, we were tight! The objective of laying down 10 instrumental tracks in one four-hour recording session seemed overly ambitious to Luke Duross, our recording engineer, but we were confident that we could do it, with vocal tracks to be done in a second four-hour session. We would soon find out…
The first session was exhausting and exhilarating at the same time. I think we may have done three takes on one tune, but two was the maximum on most of the others—and we chose quite a few of the first takes to use on the recording! I’m not sure who was more amazed that we were able to lay down 10 tracks, Luke or us. We knew the vocals session had the potential to be quite a bit more difficult.
And it was. As the lead vocalist for seven of the 10 tunes, the second recording session was much more taxing for me personally—again, in a good way—and totally exhausting. I felt the same after seven tunes as I do after a three-set performance—totally bagged. But Wanda and Ted Duross’s baking and tea saved the evening for us; gotta love that carb energy!
All in all, I have to say we had a real blast making this disk. We hope you have as much fun listening to it, and that you’ll tell your friends!
When a band is relatively new on the scene and looking for gigs, a demo is a quick way to get the band in front of a few designated listeners, i.e. club owners and bookers. So it came down to the question of which three or four tunes we’d like to include to best showcase the group.
This was easier said than done. We eventually narrowed our “book” down to 10 songs that we felt showed Big Chill at its best. Somehow, the discussion evolved to “Why don’t we do a CD?” After a bit of thrashing around, we liked the idea. At the very least, it was something that friends of ours could have as a souvenir!
We decided right off the top that even if it wasn’t to be a “live off the floor” recording, we wanted the CD to be the best possible representation of Big Chill’s live sound—no overdubbing, no extra instruments. So rehearsed our list of 10 tunes for two solid weeks—around 14 hours of rehearsal.
When we went in to record, we were tight! The objective of laying down 10 instrumental tracks in one four-hour recording session seemed overly ambitious to Luke Duross, our recording engineer, but we were confident that we could do it, with vocal tracks to be done in a second four-hour session. We would soon find out…
The first session was exhausting and exhilarating at the same time. I think we may have done three takes on one tune, but two was the maximum on most of the others—and we chose quite a few of the first takes to use on the recording! I’m not sure who was more amazed that we were able to lay down 10 tracks, Luke or us. We knew the vocals session had the potential to be quite a bit more difficult.
And it was. As the lead vocalist for seven of the 10 tunes, the second recording session was much more taxing for me personally—again, in a good way—and totally exhausting. I felt the same after seven tunes as I do after a three-set performance—totally bagged. But Wanda and Ted Duross’s baking and tea saved the evening for us; gotta love that carb energy!
All in all, I have to say we had a real blast making this disk. We hope you have as much fun listening to it, and that you’ll tell your friends!
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