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Website will be being updated throughout this week, let us know if you find any bugs/dead-links/dead-bugs…

Happy NZ Music Month People!

-Kristie

Get your hands on the New Slipping Tongue Album - Available in Shops now!

The Album is a milestone in many ways - the first in a series of Albums outlining the story of a heart wrenching break up and all the emotions that go with it… This first album is written from the perspective of the female character in the story and the music has feminine touch, but still eminates from the Hard Hitting and Massive sound that is SLIPPING TONGUE.

Look out also for the Series of Music Videos that tell the story of the albums different acts - they are not released in sequence so you will have to wait till all of them are released to understand the full story and concept of what happens. Act 1 and Act 4 have been released in the music videos so far. REQUEST the MY KINGDOM FALLS (act 4)music video on C4 select by texting S153 to 4440.

The songs on the album are mainly written by Ray Old (the guitarsit), with the addtion of some lyrics by Jennie Skulander (the lead vocalist), with the other band members Mike Mackie and Jarad Dobbs contributing in various songs (see album inlay for details).

Slipping Tongues Debut Album is also the First Album that Michelle Klaessens from the Rock Factory has Fully Recorded, Mixed, Mastered and Produced from start to finish. Done in a whirlwind month - with not much time left before the due date, Michelle wanted to give the album an exotic overseas production sound. she added atmosphere to the songs by the addition of Orchestration, Organs, Keyboards and backing vocals in her own time while mixing the album. Check it out and let us know what you think!!

For other recordings completed at The Rock Factory you might want to check out is The Twitch’s ‘What the F*ck is going on?” Recorded and mixed by Mark Rawstron from the Rock Factory in early late 2006, and The more recent These Four Walls EP recorded and mixed by Michelle in early 2007 - a song from each of these is also featured on the music player.

I WILL BE FEATURING A DIFFERENT SONG FROM THE SLIPPING TONGUE ALBUM ON THIS MYSPACE EVERY WEEK FOR THE NEXT 13 WEEKS… check back next week for another sneak preview of a different song, or even Better…. Go to your local CD Store are request the album - distributed by Global Routes - it is now available Nationwide!

Listen to THE ROCK FM this Sunday Night for a Feature of the album on Paul Martins Show The Axe Attack.

you can also check out the bands myspace page:

http://www.myspace.com/slippingtongue for more Songs and News

The Rock Factory Sylvia Park had it’s official opening party on Saturday the 27th of October - and what a night it was!

In other news Mark and I are excited to announce we have a team of young to youngish Sound Engineers who are working for us as contractors at the moment so this makes the team as following:

Live Sound Team:

Mark Rawstron, Michelle Klaessens, Jason Belcher, Andrew Kerr, Mike Clarkin and Nick Campbell.

In the Studio:

Mark Rawstron (mainly tracking), Michelle Klaessens (Mainly mixing and mastering), Simon Toomer (The whole shabang - this is one talented young man, our resident in house protools wiz, excellent at production and fast!) and Nick Campbell (projects and bits and bobs around the place - also a talented session musician, Nick can play almost anything). Jason Belcher is also great in the studio - so let us know if you’d like to work with him at the helm. Andrew Kerr is also a talented session musician who can play everything under the sun, so let us know if you would like him to be a session musician in one of your songs. Tory Staple - this young man can play the drums and has a lovely kit that sound great recorded. Ring us if you need him as a session drummer in your recording.

Volunteers:

Dave and Tobias will be helping us out in the Studio and/or Live Sound around the place over the spring/summer and into the new year to gain experience and have heaps of fun! We always need help - so if you think you have something to offer us, give us a bell! If you are looking for work, Volunteering is the best and only way to eventually end up working for us as a paid contractor - this way we can quickly find out how you work and if you are the right person to work with us! We like people who are innovative, motivated and can create their own place within the community - above all you must be easy to work with (get along great with bands and can solve problems quickly on your feet), and you must be obsessed with quality of sound production! You also need to be strong (able to lift and move heavy things, and have a full drivers license.