Silverlode is an indie rock band from Leeds, UK and we proudly present 'The… Read Full Bio ↴Silverlode is an indie rock band from Leeds, UK and we proudly present 'The Summer Of Fourteen'.... our live ‘acoustic’ album. Here is some background information about where it came from:-
Silverlode regularly features Rob (that's me), Scott, Gaz, Dave, Hannah and Luke. In the last eighteen months Gaz, Dave and myself have all become fathers and so, in a general sense, the management of work, home, leisure and band life has become a little trickier. Gone are the days when we would play five gigs a week up and down the land. But we don't quit; we use the time we do have to work differently and create something new. And so, during 2014, we played a lot of gigs as a an 'upbeat folksome trio' with an instrument-swapping line up of Rob, Scott and Hannah. 'Summer of Fourteen' is a collection of ten songs recorded live to reflect performances with eight originals and two covers (The Felice Brothers and The Smashing Pumpkins).
It turned out that the majority of gigs in 2014 were played this way, developing a new and flexible line-up to enable us to tread the line between being acoustic folk/pop act and an indie rock band. At these gigs the audience would regularly see Scott sitting at the front of the stage to play kick drum and foot tambo whilst playing acoustic bass guitar or the reed organ; for some songs he would play full drums. Hannah would switch between synth and ukulele, and occasioanlly swap to the bass behind her paisley keyboard stand. All the meanwhile I would stand behind at the back and bash the Dick Dale out of my acoustic guitar and all three of us would sing our hearts out.
We wanted to document this new and potentially temporary live line up on record. The idea was to work quickly. Write the songs, play the songs, record the songs, release the songs – before the summer was over. Our previous album, Eye In The Void, took around two years to make from conception to final release, largely due to the fact that it was heavier guitar and effects-laden record of greater complexity. We wanted this one to be swift and fairly spontaneous.
So the Summer of Fourteen was recorded live, as per gig performances, across several sessions at my Grain Division Studio, Leeds and then mixed and mastered by Mike Cockerham at Syke Lane Studios (Mike did a great job of mixing Eye In The Void). Each songs is the first or second take, with the exception of Meadow Song which, for some reason, too rather a few more to nail. Imperfections abound, but that was always going to be the deal. Essentially, this is the sound of us trying something different to our usual studio approach and trying to be honest about where we are at. Or rather where we were at in the summer of fourteen…..
Rob Silverlode, Jan 2015
Silverlode regularly features Rob (that's me), Scott, Gaz, Dave, Hannah and Luke. In the last eighteen months Gaz, Dave and myself have all become fathers and so, in a general sense, the management of work, home, leisure and band life has become a little trickier. Gone are the days when we would play five gigs a week up and down the land. But we don't quit; we use the time we do have to work differently and create something new. And so, during 2014, we played a lot of gigs as a an 'upbeat folksome trio' with an instrument-swapping line up of Rob, Scott and Hannah. 'Summer of Fourteen' is a collection of ten songs recorded live to reflect performances with eight originals and two covers (The Felice Brothers and The Smashing Pumpkins).
It turned out that the majority of gigs in 2014 were played this way, developing a new and flexible line-up to enable us to tread the line between being acoustic folk/pop act and an indie rock band. At these gigs the audience would regularly see Scott sitting at the front of the stage to play kick drum and foot tambo whilst playing acoustic bass guitar or the reed organ; for some songs he would play full drums. Hannah would switch between synth and ukulele, and occasioanlly swap to the bass behind her paisley keyboard stand. All the meanwhile I would stand behind at the back and bash the Dick Dale out of my acoustic guitar and all three of us would sing our hearts out.
We wanted to document this new and potentially temporary live line up on record. The idea was to work quickly. Write the songs, play the songs, record the songs, release the songs – before the summer was over. Our previous album, Eye In The Void, took around two years to make from conception to final release, largely due to the fact that it was heavier guitar and effects-laden record of greater complexity. We wanted this one to be swift and fairly spontaneous.
So the Summer of Fourteen was recorded live, as per gig performances, across several sessions at my Grain Division Studio, Leeds and then mixed and mastered by Mike Cockerham at Syke Lane Studios (Mike did a great job of mixing Eye In The Void). Each songs is the first or second take, with the exception of Meadow Song which, for some reason, too rather a few more to nail. Imperfections abound, but that was always going to be the deal. Essentially, this is the sound of us trying something different to our usual studio approach and trying to be honest about where we are at. Or rather where we were at in the summer of fourteen…..
Rob Silverlode, Jan 2015
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The Summer Of Fourteen
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