Posted August 11, 200618 yr From NME The Thrills make 'best work to date' As they complete third album The Thrills have completed their third album which they have proclaimed is their 'best work to date'. The as yet untitled album will be the follow up to 2004's 'Let's Bottle Bohemia' and was recorded in Vancouver. It has been produced by Tony Hoffer. Posting on their myspace site on the final day of recording (August 5), singer Conor Deasy wrote: "It's the last night in the studio. We've been working from noon 'till 1 in the morning for a month and half with one day off a week. "I believe this record will be our best work to date. The songs have really risen to the occasion. There's only been one casualty. Maybe she'll turn up on another record. We recorded our first instrumental. Could be a good opener. We're going to go home for a week or so. Get some sleep and perspective, then regroup and mix it." A release date for the album has not been announced. MySpace entry: UPDATE : VANCOUVER NEWS - ALBUM RECORDING COMPLETE It's the last night in the studio. We've been working from noon 'till 1 in the morning for a month and half with one day off a week. I believe this record will be our best work to date. The songs have really risen to the occasion. There's only been one casualty. Maybe she'll turn up on another record. We recorded our first instrumental. Could be a good opener. We're going to go home for a week or so. Get some sleep and perspective, then regroup and mix it. There were visitors. Nick, our A&R guy, came over to inspect proceedings. However, he spent the lion's share of his time down by English Bay in The Soho Arms downing pints of bitter, wearing the new Liverpool strip. Guinness travels better. Tony's (The Producer) wife also visited. She got a part in Days Of Our Lives. We all tuned in. She was great in it. The setting was a bar on the wrong side of town. There was a brawl, a mysterious leather hand and the guy with a past suffering from amnesia with a patch over his eye. All in one scene. Max Dodson, our favorite photographer who directed our first video for One Horse Town, came over and took some shots of us playing in the studio. The proposed shoot on the roof of the studio had to be curtailed after Padraic and Ben simultaneously fouled Max in a truly horrific tackle during a friendly football game. Max couldn't walk let alone climb up to the roof. There was a distinct lack of sportsmanship about the incident given the friendly nature of the game and taking into account the sanctimonious lecturing these two individuals had given everyone about having a clean game beforehand. Ben also trampled over Tony's plane which just happened to be landing in the middle of the pitch mid game. Ben's reputation as hard hitter, despite his tender lady's man tendencies, still stands since The Florida Episode last year when he dislodged a bone in Padraic's hand, whose guitar playing style has never quite been the same since. Our model airplane fetish has escalated. The planes have once again been upgraded. We only realized at a later date that Padraic's model bore a close resemblance to a World War Two Nazi bomber. Bryan Adams, the owner of the studio, came down down to say hi. We boasted that we would be flying from and landing on the ten story car park across the street the next night. However, since it's our last night and we are running around like headless chickens trying to tie up loose ends, all planes have been grounded for the foreseeable future. In the last blog I mentioned how this studio is rumored to be haunted. Since we relocated to Studio One last week, we have had some first hand supernatural experiences. For example, there is a door in the basement that has a mind of its own. On various occasions members of the band have been locked in the basement despite the fact that the door is unlocked and the lock is visibly unhinged. Despite intense pushing from the outside and pulling from the inside, the door remains inexplicably shut tight as if by some magnetic force. One time the door suddenly swung open and hit an already rattled Padraic. We discovered a music store that rents instruments for a dollar and fifty cents a day. Canadian dollars. This has encouraged some flights of fancy. Daniel is currently doing a personal crash course on the violin and preparing to record a part. If he can't cut it, there's a busker outside the hotel who will get the gig. The new Sleepy Jackson album sounds beautiful. I'm very jealous. Tony and Todd want to see Snakes On A Plane even though they acknowledge there is no way it could live up to such a title. Last week the spectacular Vancouver Fireworks Festival was being held. Ben got a new computer. It makes Padraic's old computer look like some Fisher Price $h!t. Ben is reading The Art Of Happiness. Padraic is struggling with An Introduction To Buddhism. I am flicking through a biography of F Scott Fitzgerald. Kevin is recognizing himself in The Beautiful And Damned. Daniel is house hunting online. We've had a great time in Vancouver but our work is done and now it's time to go home. Conor. http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseacti...20-9d33722378a4 LifeLight
August 11, 200618 yr I've been waiting for this for a long time :cheer: I was a big fan of their first two :wub:
August 12, 200618 yr Big Sur, Santa Cruz, and Whatever Happened To Corey Haim are all great songs :D 2nd album kinda flopped though?
August 12, 200618 yr Big Sur, Santa Cruz, and Whatever Happened To Corey Haim are all great songs :D 2nd album kinda flopped though? Didn't do THAT well, no :( you forgot 'Not For All The Love In The World' which I'm listening to right now :wub:
August 13, 200618 yr Big Sur, Santa Cruz, and Whatever Happened To Corey Haim are all great songs :D 2nd album kinda flopped though? £3 now :lol:
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