I finally got around to writing and recording a new original track which is titled ‘Virtue Signal’ by Steve Stroud. It’s my first new solo song since I finished my solo album ‘Lavalamp‘ in 2017. I had a piano riff in my head and based it around that. It was also a good opportunity to […]
Had a great time recording the original song ‘Our Whingy Gayle’ by David Barker , the Jack Russell music recording artist this month. He brought the wine and his music all the way from France to come and record here, so he’s a little bit like Dionysus in my book. Dave wanted a 6o’s vibe […]
On the 9th of May, Franki traveled from Dorset to Big Cloud in Liverpool to start tracking for his third Album project to be produced here. We’d previously collaborated on his albums ‘Still Runs‘ and ‘Tastes‘ and Franki was so happy with the productions, he wanted to produce another album here in a similar way. […]
I had my good friend Tim back in the Studio over Christmas time. He had a great new song written ‘Peninsula’, but this time wanted to back it with a drum loop rather than a regular acoustic pattern. There was a great Talking Heads track in which he really liked the drum loop. Rather than […]
Early in September 2017, we started work on the ‘Tastes’ Album by Franki Doot when Franki made the long trek from Dorset to Liverpool to begin recording tracks for his latest original album. We’d previously collaborated on his last album ‘Frankie Doot Still Runs‘ back in 2016. On the last album, I’d only collaborated on […]
Had the pleasure of welcoming Tim O’Neill back to the studio recently to work on two brand new compositions. Tim arrived with two new songs he wanted to record and played them to me acoustically before telling me what kind of instrumentation he wanted on the tracks. This is usually how it works with Tim, […]
This was one of the most original and interesting projects I’ve ever been involved with. BRN/ rd /YND is a brilliant musician who likes to compose his tunes in an unuusal way. He chips away at a composion, layering up korg kaossilators , synths and samples until he’s satisfied. BRN/ rd /YND had some unorthodox […]
I’ve recently completed work on an original album for Liverpool born, but Dorset based singer songwriter Franki Doot. ‘Franki Doot Still Runs’ is a great collection of original, intelligent and thoughtful tracks. I’ve worked on seven original songs so far for Franki up here in Liverpool and he’s also working on some other totally seperate […]
Great live session tonight with Vanilla duo. Julie & Nick are a duo from Liverpool who came to record Let’s Stay together by Al Green. They sounded fantastic and were really lovely to work with. Nicks an amazing guitarist and instrumentalist and Julie is an actress/singer with a voice to die for. They’re both really […]
Here is The Deltatones version of the Paul Simon classic, You Can Call Me Al. We recorded the track as both an audio and a Video recording here at Big Cloud Productions. In case you did’t know, I’m actually the lead singer and guitarist in The Deltatones, a wedding and corporate duo. Both myself and Rob […]