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Ah, YouTube can be a wonderful thing. I’ve been watching episodes of the Larry Sanders Show and remembering what a great piece of TV it was. Ahead of it’s time, comedy-wise. I read a comment recently where somebody compared it to Ricky Gervais’ The Office and re-watching it now I can certainly see the similarities. It’s [...]

Today I took the album over to the studio of the reputed Jon Astley from Close To The Edge for mastering. It feels amazing to have reached this final stage of the whole recording/mixing process at long last. At times along the way it’s felt like we’d never get here. And to have the album [...]

Psst…the rest of the band might disagree with this but Hawkwind must be one of the best bands ever in the history of history itself. Their only UK hit was back in the 70s with ‘Silver Machine’ with ‘Ace of Spades’ Lemmy on bass -but their legacy goes far beyond that. Bring on the whole [...]

Back in ‘91 these were the dons. When I discovered these Belguim guys all my mates were into Iron Maiden, U2 and er, Poison. But, along with NIN, these guys completely did it for me. The sounds they produced back then are still all around us – from Pendulum’s new album to really bad cyberpunk [...]

That’s right, que the drums – Gold Digger are in the house! On Tuesday this week we played at the FYM FYG Bar in East London and, lo, the gig did kick ass! This was our first gig since the New Year as we’ve been so busy sorting out the new album, but it all [...]

The soundtrack to the summer is definately Pendulum’s “In Silico” – what an awesome record. Can’t stop playing it. Sounds like nothing else – although you can hear the odd influence such as the Prodigy, Faith No More, and er, ELO (trust me on this – it still sounds great!). Terrific stuff – a beat [...]

Resepect. The news on the street is that I’m a Dad!
It’s been a hectic couple of weeks and I’m not going into detail here but all is good in the hood. I’m living on very little sleep and there’s a constant crying-siren noise kicking off all the time at home now – so it’s all [...]

Crikey. It’s been one hell of a week for the Gold Digger crew with a curious mixture of tragedies and celebrations. First off, Steffi’s boyfriend’s house burnt down leaving nothing but a charred wreck. A discarded cigarette caught light to a pile of dead leaves which then set the garden shed ablaze and the whole lot went up [...]

Well my goodness. As Steve says, it really has been a bumpy ride but we’ve hit a plateau where I feel we are going to tie this up once and for all!
I can’t tell you how beautiful the album sounds – I have been thinking a lot recently and now we have the [...]

Well, yet another chunk of time has been lost in the mixing of the ‘Get It Together’ album. I was supposed to be up in the studio both last night and today working on getting the final mix completed. Unfortunately, Steve, our Studio Engineer, had to leg it up to Nottingham to see his Dad [...]