News From the Front
This page is used to pass on the latest news from Love Commandos HQ.
Posted by zakala on Feb 23, 2010 in
Band news
Strangely this week’s rehearsal entered unusual territory for the Love Commandos – somehow the conversation turned to matters horticultural and sounded more like Gardeners’ World than loud rock music.
Luckily we exhausted our knowledge of gardening pretty quickly (Ken’s idea of gardening is to lay astro turf) and we got back to playing loud rock music.
The new covers are coming along nicely and we also ran through another bunch of tracks we haven’t played for a while. There was also some suggestion that we should, perhaps, attempt “Fat-bottomed Girls” by Queen as it is both a timeless classic and probably the only Queen song that doesn’t mandate the immense vocal range of Freddie Mercury.
We are still awaiting news of the CD production, but hopefully it won’t be much longer…
Tags: cd production, Freddie Mercury, gardeners world, gardening, Ken, loud rock music, music, Queen, queen song, Rock, Strangely, week
Posted by zakala on Feb 8, 2010 in
Band news
Incredulity abounded as Ken finally announced that the CD artwork for “Siren” was finally completed and had gone off to Sound Recording Technology along with the outstanding paperwork. Questions were raised about whether it was rotten or had exploded or both (neither as it turns out). This is the last but one step in the pre-production process. Once we have approved the final art proofs (and paid the outstanding balance) the CD can be sent to the presses. Some time after we will take delivery of a thousand CDs.
It’s taken longer than we would have liked, but given the part-time nature of everyone involved it’s hardly surprising. Changing artwork direction several times didn’t really help, but we’re all happy with the final choices and we’ve preserved some of the original ideas.
Friday’s rehearsal was spent practising the new covers and remembering how to play some of the old ones including Marilyn Manson’s “Fight Song”. A new set list was mentioned as was arranging some gigs.
Tags: artwork, cd artwork, fight song, Incredulity, Ken, Marilyn Manson, proofs, recording, recording technology, Siren, sound, time nature
Posted by zakala on Oct 22, 2009 in
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After our last rehersal on the 9th it’s been quiet at the Love Commandos HQ while Neil gads about the USA on a solo tour of Phoenix. Meanwhile the rest of us are soldiering on regardless, but not actually rehearsing.
Ken has found tab and lyrics for ‘Orange Crush’ by R.E.M. so that may make an appearence in the set at some point.
Tags: Commandos HQ, gads, Ken, Love, Neil, orange crush, Phoenix, R.E.M, rehersal, rest, soldiering, solo, solo tour, tour, USA
Posted by admin on Sep 5, 2009 in
Band news
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.
Tags: band, band names, Burn, burn baby burn, commandos, definite article, discussion, gigs, Ken, Love, name, Neil, pod x3, Richard, stomp boxes
Posted by zakala on Aug 23, 2009 in
Website News
The new website is now up and running with a new landing page, design and several years of our old content migrated by hand by our team of experienced web designers (aka Ken).
We hope you enjoy the new “Love Commandos Experience”. Now all we have to do is wrap up the album and get out and play some loud rock music at gigs!
Tags: commandos, content, design, gig, Ken, landing, loud rock music, Love, New, new landing, page, Rock, web designers, website