Q&A with Alun Woodward of Chemikal Underground
You famously have a studio as well as a label, Chem19. Has that helped?
Yeah, we do have a studio, but it's a totally separate business and a studio is a very expensive thing to keep going. Everyone assumes we have a kinda free or cheap studio to use whenever we want for the band but it doesn't work like that. The studio has to keep upgrading their gear etc., so we have to pay standard rates when the bands record there.
It's good to know there's a great studio the bands can use, and can work with great engineers like Paul (Savage -founding member of both The Delgardos and Chemikal Underground).
You're now recording under the name Lord Cut Glass – how that going?
Really well, we've got an album finished, it's already getting a good response, that'll be coming out in April.
And what else is coming up on the label?
There's the new album from Aidan Moffat (one half of Arab Strap), which is out 14th February, which I think will lead to a people maybe reassessing how they think of him, it's a great album. There's also the De Rosa album in March and The Phantom Band album in January, both look like they're gonna be getting some great reviews, and there's a 8 piece vinyl Aerogramme boxset, which we hoped to have out for Christmas but will now be out in the new year because of problems with on one of the pieces of vinyl. It's gonna be a busy 2009 - things seem to be going really well.
Yeah, we do have a studio, but it's a totally separate business and a studio is a very expensive thing to keep going. Everyone assumes we have a kinda free or cheap studio to use whenever we want for the band but it doesn't work like that. The studio has to keep upgrading their gear etc., so we have to pay standard rates when the bands record there.
It's good to know there's a great studio the bands can use, and can work with great engineers like Paul (Savage -founding member of both The Delgardos and Chemikal Underground).
You're now recording under the name Lord Cut Glass – how that going?
Really well, we've got an album finished, it's already getting a good response, that'll be coming out in April.
And what else is coming up on the label?
There's the new album from Aidan Moffat (one half of Arab Strap), which is out 14th February, which I think will lead to a people maybe reassessing how they think of him, it's a great album. There's also the De Rosa album in March and The Phantom Band album in January, both look like they're gonna be getting some great reviews, and there's a 8 piece vinyl Aerogramme boxset, which we hoped to have out for Christmas but will now be out in the new year because of problems with on one of the pieces of vinyl. It's gonna be a busy 2009 - things seem to be going really well.
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