Ken’s Hair… On Fire?!

Well not literally, but it has gone red again (some will no doubt say ginger). Regardless, it seems to have inspired the Love Commandos into a frenzy of cover version learning which saw them learn “Sex On Fire” by Kings of Leon in a single rehearsal session. We’re not sure whether that says more about the LCs musical abilities or those of Kings of Leon.

Anyway, like Vince Noir and Howard Moon of The Mighty Boosh, we like that one. Though we did come to the same conclusion as the Boosh boys, we don’t like everything that Kings of Leon do.

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What’s our name again?

Ken was early and spent the time creating some patches on his Pod X3. Richard was late, but already has his patches sorted since he uses stomp boxes.

There was discussion about whether the band name included the definite article (the) or not. The general opinion was that the band is called “Love Commandos” partly because it was taken from the lyric “the psychotronic love commandos”, but mainly because Neil dislikes band names with “The” in their name.

Musically both “Just a Day” and “Burn Baby, Burn” are coming along nicely and should be ready once we have the album ready for release.

There was also discussion about both engaging an agent to manage the gig side of things – since we are clearly useless at organising gigs – and arranging a publishing deal to promote our original songs.

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Big Brother is Watching Us

Day 24 in the new Love Commandos (web)house and the site now has an XML sitemap registered with all the leading search engines. We are also using Google Analytics to see which parts of the site are the most popular.
We may not watch “Big Brother”, but big brother may be watching us.
What will be most popular? You decide!

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Rare Love Commandos Footage

Some footage of The Love Commandos recording “Siren” has been posted on the Siren page. The quality isn’t great, but it gives you an idea of how we recorded the basic tracks (click track and all). We then overdubbed tracks where necessary, such as vocal tracks and guitar solos.

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New band photos

We have posted some photographs of the Siren recording sessions from last year on the Siren page. Go take a look at The Love Commandos playing loud rock music in Priory Recording Studio, Canwell, presided over by Greg the mixmeister.

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