Mixing

Its been too long between updates ! Thats cos' we've been busy putting the finishing touches to some songs we recorded in April... the general plan is to release a song late June and keep working on the album in the meantime.

Elvis Castro (TMS guitar man) is hard at work laying down guitar tracks in his private studio .. which is handily at his house(!) - so as soon as he's finished we'll be back at Linear Studios in Leichhardt for final mixing (June 4!).

The first song is the intro to the album ... a goodbye tune before hitting the open road ...

Stay tuned - next update will be a new track !
cheers
Brendan/The Model School

Recording begins !

This weekend saw the first tracks go down at Linear Studios in Leichhardt - we got through 4 songs and it truly was a great experience, recording to tape in the first instance - which we've never done before. Engineers Chris and Wade were masters of their craft and made the whole weekend really memorable....There's still many nights of tracking and mixing ahead - but its great to get started on the whole shebang.

Once Elvis Castro (TMS guitarist) gets back from his tour of North Korea we'll be right back into it ... i really hope a new song emerges in the next couple of months with an album by September. We've got a nice breezy summer song up our sleeve so expect that when the surf is up in December.

Thats all for now - no shows planned but i'm sure once all this is done we'll be back out there.
cheers
Brendan

Recording dates locked in ...

Hey there - thanks to all those who came out to our show at The Lansdowne in Sydney on the weekend. It felt great to play 4 new tracks and freshen up the set ! Hope you enjoyed the "Fire" trilogy too ... for those wondering what the hell i'm talking about - well - you'll have to wait til the next show!

The main news is that recording has been locked in to kickstart album #3. We'll be recording in the last week of March and hope to get side A of the album down - and hopefully a single will emerge out of that pretty quickly... you might ask why i say "side A" - the answer is that i'm thinking in terms of a flashy TMS vinyl record at the end of this caper. We've never done an LP before - and since we'll be recording to tape this time it seems the logical next step. And who doesn't love some big glossy artwork splashed around the place ?

The songs are pretty much written ... lots of road songs ... it seems there's at least a street, road or highway in every song ! I'm looking back through journals and photos i took on my roadtrip in late 2010 - as well as working on demo's i recorded there ... and some of these demo's were recorded in amazing places.
Speaking of which - first person to email or contact us with the answer to this question :

Where was this demo recorded (see picture) - gets a TMS cd of their choice (1st,2nd or even 3rd if you can wait !) :

So - let me know either via facebook - or an email to themodelschool[at]yahoo.com.au - and a TMS album of your choice is yours.
cheers
Brendan

Whats in store for 2012

Just a quick post to say that 2012 will see lots of new music released by The Model School ! We're hard at work on an albums worth of new tunes and plan on getting a single out in the coming months, followed by an album later this year. It sure has taken a long time to get to this point - being that most of the songs were born on the road in the USA back in late 2010 - then worked on for most of 2011...

We've got a show coming up where we'll be airing a few of the new songs - its on Saturday March 3 down at the Lansdowne in Sydney. I doubt we'll have a single ready by then - as we're still working out where to record ... but check back for updates.

For now here's a picture from the road trip - a real inspiration on the songs. Lots of wide open space soundtracked by Tom Petty,Bruce Springsteen and Gram Parsons pumping from the car stereo ... Heartland Rock circa 1973 ? Yes please !
cheers
Brendan

Sometime in the post-carbon universe .... a new TMS clip was born.

New film clip about to land....