"Too daytime for after 6 radio" and "too alternative for daytime radio" has been the fascinating response to our recent single. So contrary to the previous diary entry we aren't very busy on the radio frontlines. And thank god, the law of averages has played a good hand on our creative behalf. It has given us some time to disappear into the wilds of Kildare and record some new material. Sending our souls, if not a little overcharged from a busy summer, acclimatising into a creative spell from which we're producing some of the most exciting songs we've written to date. Pre-produced sketches of material which, even though we've just released a record, have me daydreaming of a second album.
September 14th we moved into a lodge in Kill-teel, a tiny valley town in Kildare. For the past 6 weeks we've been there as often as possible, recording the first thing that comes into our heads and seeing if it turns into a song. Most of the time, our efforts are mapped very quickly on tape, so quick we sometimes miss that turn in the road that's signposted 'Juno Falls - this way'. We're writing all kinds of stuff. It's a bizarre practice. Throw whatever echoes of music are bouncing around in our heads into a melting pot and see if we can cast a song. It's unpredictable, but that's the joy of it, if it's not thrown spontaneously down to us from the musical heavens then it's usually not worth dwelling over. Although at that kind of pace, I lyrically sometimes have to stimulate myself by reading more, any food for thought I can get my hands on, or I'll end up singing about the same thing for 3 or 4 songs. And typically, my girlfriend goes on a holiday for 3 weeks and we have love songs falling out of our ears.
On a more sombre note, we lost a guitarist. Conal Doyle was with us for only 3 months and we quickly fell in love with him, but he parted with us on a failing that his heart "just wasn't into it". No other explanation was given (or willing to be shared). An e-mail the day we moved to Kildare made the first week of recording feel more like a funeral than a creative birth. It was very disappointing that he never thought to tell us in person. We were very surprised. But hey, if anyone out there feels like they're up for the job please e-mail me your details myles@junofalls.net . We suffer no loss in a live sense from being down a guitarist, if the right person comes along, the more the merrier.
And to conclude my epic diary entry for this term, let me offer you a few songs from our excursion to Kildare. You must be warned these are rough. Juno Falls at our worst. It was hard to decide what to offer you so we just picked 3 songs at random. One of them doesn't even have lyrics, I'm just add-libbing nonsense. But at least the core of songs are there.
Bye for now
Myles
