Life in the future…
So in Spielberg’s world, we only have a couple more years before Hoverboards, self-cleaning jackets and Jaws 19. Until then, we’ve got records to make…
We did some great things in 2009, culminating in the insanity and splendour that was the Hockley Hustle… Our show was amazing! Despite having problems with the original venue and having to move the gig halfway through, while simultaneously turning a hairdressers into a gig venue, the show was utterly amazing and utterly punkrock. Highlights were Rescued By Wolves filling the joint, Blacklisters bludgeoning everybody and a magnificent headline set from Ocean Bottom Nightmare who are fast approaching being the best band in the land.
Plans are now afoot to expand the place, to make a lot of new friends, and most importantly to make some really great records for people like you who love the music you make. We love it too.
We’ve just put up some right nice offers for the next few months, so checkumout.
Stay in touch, k?
Mark
The Big Hustle
It’s Rocktober! It’s Hockley Hustle month! We’re curating the day’s events at Wax Bar on Broad St, and we have the very loudest of line-ups:
4:00 Rescued by wolves
4:45 Here’s to Tragedy
5:30 Patchwork Grace
6:15 Fuzz Guitar Boutique presents The Air Guitar Final To End All Guitar Finals!
7:00 The Charm Offensive
7:45 Sinatra
8:30 Death; No Less
9:15 Blacklisters
10:00 Ocean Bottom Nightmare
We’re also co-hosting with Fuzz Guitar Boutique the Air Guitar Championship to end them all – Heats will be held in the day at Fuzz’s shop on the corner of broad st, with the final being held in the evening at Wax.
We’ve worked really hard to make this awesome, and we hope you can come along. We’re probably going to be doing some kind of cool-style studio offer on the day, so watch out for it…
There are still a few half-price wristbands on sale, so snap’emup, like a snapitty crocodile. Snap!
Info: www.hockleyhustle.co.uk
Tickets: £5earlybird / £7.50adv / £10otd
http://www.wegottickets.com/f/p/1/1083#rtn_58015
All for Oxfam and local NSPCC projects
Lions! Offers!
The new issue of Left Lion is on the streets, and the fellas who put it together have been kind enough to write a feature about us! There’s even the obligatory ‘at-the-console’ producer shot. This will never happen again.
They managed to get my better side, I think…
So we’ve got more awesome offers over the next few months. Check the Offers page, and use your ocular sensors to download the information directly to your brain!
If you want tea, come see us. We got tea. Maybe we can talk about records too…
Mark the recordingman
Rescued By Bees
The last week we’ve done Grunge AND Blues. Not in one go, though, oh no.
Rescued By Wolves came by and tracked two songs in a day – Big Muffs galore!
Will Jeffery is recording his debut CD right now. Simple and accomplished, If he lets me when it’s finished, I’ll put it up for listenings.
Mark
Many Of Rock
It’s been flipping ages since we wrote about a couple of the records we’ve made, so here’s a pat-sharp style run-down…
Mabels Husbands were in for about six days to make a monster of a four-track EP. Piles of electronicals, messed up guitar and the gravelly, greasy lyric of M J Wilkinson. A snippet will be up in the future.
Death; No Less came by to lay down their debut tracks. Bass? Who needs bass? Not when you have a tiny girl tuning to drop-c, and a sound halfway between PJ Harvey and the Deftones.
Here’s To Tragedy Synthed and bleeped their way through their first proper EP, getting a LOT of recognition already. We covered a lot of ground, from disney-pop to a dirty prodigy-style track about a particular lady who take off her clothes in magazines. These boys will do good things – come see them at our Hockley Hustle show at Wax Bar on broad st, 25th of October…
Mark
Get Your Gig On
As part of the Hockley Hustle this October, The Crash Factory will be throwing a sexy free-for-all live music party at Wax in Hockley, Nottingham.
The night is set to explode in your lap on October 25th, with 8 bands appearing throughout the day. Half the bill is already booked, so if you’d like to get involved you better get in touch with a quickness.
Invisible Pink Unicorn Month
To celebrate the advent of The Invisible Pink Unicorn, we’ll be running a special promotion all throughout June for only the very coolest of you musician types:
If you book for any studio time in June and mention The Invisible Pink Unicorn or you turn up with your deposit proudly wearing an Invisible Pink Unicorn badge, we’ll add a whole extra free day to our Four-for-Three offer. That means you’ll be getting FOUR DAYS FOR THE PRICE OF TWO.
Now who wants to say unicorns aren’t real?
Metal Mickey
Does your voice sound like you’re feeding gravel into a waste disposal unit? Do you think Iron Man is more of a Pansy Girl? Do you regularly like to punish anyone who listens to you with a wall of furious burning metal noise? Then April is the month for you at The Crash Factory.
Any metal bands (and we mean real metal bands) that are tired of having their records sound like they were recorded inside a wet cake can book at The Crash Factory for any time in April and get 30% off.
Put another way, that’s almost £50 a day you’d be saving, and coming out with a record specifically designed to destroy any stereo that dares to play it. Check out our Audio page and get in touch to book your April session!
The xmas to end all xmasses…
The year’s drawing to a close, the cold is out in force, and I’ve been locking myself away: slaving over a hot mixing desk…
We’ve had some blinkin’ great acts in over the last while, from the sublime USA acousti-pop of Bjorn Franklin (and his superb black-vinyl rhythm section) to the dark’n'dirty trash-a-thon that has become Hellequin’s first EP proper, we’ve had some fun. It turns out that if you’ve got an ex-army drummer, you generally get a drum sound like World War III.
We’ve got some new sounds over on our Myspace, and there’s a few days left before SantaTime to take advantage of our dudey mastering offer, as well as booking time for our now monthly offers here.
What are you doing next year? We’re doing some stuff. From taking on a new engineer to fill in a few slots (more details soon) to having a bit of a studio re-vamp (and ACTUALLY doing it), 2009 is set to be the bestest. Come make a record with us, and we’ll make it the bestest for you too.
Mark
All I Want For Christmas Is My Record Mastered
Give the gift of noise this Christmas with our awesome mastering deal – for every studio day you pay for in December we’ll master a track for free. Get our 4-for-3 offer and walk away with a great sounding three-track EP. Actually, if you did that twice you could have eight days, six songs and save £180 on mastering alone. Maybe I’ll do that…
As the final cherry on our brandy-laden mastering xmas cake, if your session finishes by December 17th, we’ll guarantee your masters to you for Christmas. Ho ho ho.