Bondy’s abandoned closet

Welcome to my abandoned closet. This is an off-shoot of my main Myspazz page where you can hear some of my early demo recordings from 2003 and 2004 - back in the days when I was first striving to learn the art of songwriting and musical arrangement.These songs were all recorded in my bedroom at Chez Filth - a former guest house in central Blackpool that in its time has been home to many debauched parties and some of the craziest and goddamn talented creative mavericks ever to wander this, God's green Earth! (but enough about me... arf arf)Freshly graduated from uni in 2002, I quickly set to work mining the depths of my brand spanking new £2,000 overdraft with my friends in the pub. I had no cash to spare on equipment to record my songs, working as I did in a crappy minimum-wage bar job (followed in mid-2003 by a crappy low-paid IT job), so it was a case of improvising around my frugal menagerie of instruments and equipment to get the tracks recorded as I wrote them. (Catherine Wheel was one of the songs born from these sessions.)I started off each song by recording an acoustic guitar track on to my computer using a bog standard PC mic, overdubbing my vocals, adding more guitars and keyboard parts until the song sounded 'finished' (no sniggering at the back!) and then mixing down the finished song using Goldwave. How's that for economising?!Before you message me saying "urrrgh, that sounds shit", I must stress that these recordings are *not* studio quality (that certainly didn't stop me burning them on to handwritten CDs and passing them out to disinterested local pub owners back in the day), but they exude an indescribable lo-fi charm of their own, a style far removed from the slicker studio recordings on my other page.Since then the innocence of my youth seems to have been irrevocably lost in my ongoing drive for musical perfektion (either that or through my many many vices). By the end of 2004 I was getting bored of faffing round with flanging effects and the like (preferring instead to hone new material through live performance and save up my pennies to buy some time in a recording studio) - but by this point I had already produced dozens and dozens of finished tracks.So sit back with a cuppa and a Digestive biscuit, and listen to a slice of 'forgotten Blackpool' from just a few years ago! I'll be waiting out in the car park with a plate of delicious pork pies I found in the bins at Asda when you're done.Bondy x