andrew booker
Improvizone at Switch - video
10/10/08 09:05 Filed in: gigs
Os and Mike performing with Andrew Booker (drums) and
Simon Laffy (bass) at the recent Improvizone
gig.
Improvizone at Switch, October 7th 2008 from Andrew Ostler on Vimeo.
os, Oct 2008
Improvizone at Switch, October 7th 2008 from Andrew Ostler on Vimeo.
os, Oct 2008
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SOTNMS - the drummer's perspective
06/10/08 21:58 Filed in: press
I've just posted a review
by a certain Andrew
Booker. The attentive will recall that
Andrew is the drummer that we recorded for the
new album. As he says though, he was adequately
uninvolved in the actual process of creating the
album that his opinion on it is fairly
impartial.
It's a nice review anyway.
os, Oct 2008
It's a nice review anyway.
os, Oct 2008
Improvizone at the Woodford Festival
28/09/08 11:39 Filed in: gigs
Darkroom will effectively be playing at the Woodford Festival on October
7th, as part of Improvizone. We'll be playing
with Andrew Booker, the drummer on Some Of These Numbers Mean
Something, and bassist Simon Laffy.
More info on the event page on Facebook or the Improvizone site.
os, Sept 2008
More info on the event page on Facebook or the Improvizone site.
os, Sept 2008
Drums!
09/05/08 18:12 Filed in: recording
sessions
16th April 2008 saw an unusual (though not unique)
event in the Darkroom calendar - a drum recording
session. I'd identified a need for some proper,
acoustic drums (you know, real things that a real
person is beating hell out of, rather than something
programmed) on the new album, so we enlisted the fine
drummer that is Andrew Booker to help us out. (We've
performed with Andy many times recently, both at the
Improvizone gigs and the
Darkroom one-off at the Green Dragon
recently.)
Andy did us proud, recording some excellent
grooves for about half a dozen tracks.
For the gear-heads reading: we used four mics in total. Andy's Blue Ball was in the kick drum. The snare was covered by a dynamic mic of some sort, which I think was the rehearsal room's. Probably an SM-57. We had one half of a matched pair of Rode NT5s as a close-ish overhead, somewhere over the hi-hat. For some reason we didn't use the other one of the pair. Finally we had my trusty Rode NT2-A as an other-side-of-the-room overhead-cum-everything mic. We've been able to get a very nice sound in the mix from this, somewhat random and thrown-together, selection.
os, May 2008
For the gear-heads reading: we used four mics in total. Andy's Blue Ball was in the kick drum. The snare was covered by a dynamic mic of some sort, which I think was the rehearsal room's. Probably an SM-57. We had one half of a matched pair of Rode NT5s as a close-ish overhead, somewhere over the hi-hat. For some reason we didn't use the other one of the pair. Finally we had my trusty Rode NT2-A as an other-side-of-the-room overhead-cum-everything mic. We've been able to get a very nice sound in the mix from this, somewhat random and thrown-together, selection.
os, May 2008