Manning Website News Update
We have made a update to the Website (www.guymanning.com) to include all the new RoSfest photos and the news covering the line-up changes that have followed our appearance there.
Thanks for all your support!
Take care.
GuyM, Julie, Kris, Steve, Chris, Kev, Tim & Conor
Thursday, 20 May 2010
Wednesday, 21 April 2010
10th Anniversary Editions & Volcanos
1. The newly repackaged "10th Anniversary Editions" of 4 MANNING albums are now ready to pre-order at BURNSIDE (www.guymanning.com).
"Tall Stories For Small Children" - Remastered with a Bonus Track.
"The Cure"- Remastered with a Bonus Track.
"One Small Step..." - Remastered with a Bonus Track.
"Songs From The Bilston House"- Includes a Bonus Track.
All are being released on the Festival Music (F2) label.
2. We are nervously watching the skies as the UK airports start to re-open today, hoping for a prevailing wind and no more ash from Iceland!
We are due to arrive in the USA mid next week to attend /perform at RoSFest... fingers, toes and eyes are firmly crossed.
More soon
"The Cure"- Remastered with a Bonus Track.
"One Small Step..." - Remastered with a Bonus Track.
"Songs From The Bilston House"- Includes a Bonus Track.
All are being released on the Festival Music (F2) label.
2. We are nervously watching the skies as the UK airports start to re-open today, hoping for a prevailing wind and no more ash from Iceland!
We are due to arrive in the USA mid next week to attend /perform at RoSFest... fingers, toes and eyes are firmly crossed.
More soon
Saturday, 3 April 2010
Recording the drums for CHARLESTOWN.
We arrived at Orion Studios, Kilnhurst, well prepared for our 2 day drum sessions.
The four tracks had been mixed down into 'Stem mixes' by instrument group to allow Dave to be able to hear exactly what HE wanted to in his headphones during the takes.
The only slight technical hitch was that these were on PC based USB and the studio used a MAC! ...so, an elaborate transfer process was started to get tracks off the USB drive and onto a laptop then onto a USB memory stick and then imported into the Mac (all of which took up time and had odd hiccups along the way.
Still we endured and got there in the end!
The drum set up to mikes went very smoothly as Steve the Engineer knew his studio and setup extrememly well. We were ready to start recording in 3 hours!
Photos etc. from the session can be found on our website www.guymanning.com
Once Steve has rendered the song takes into seperate WAV files for me, I can import them into my Cubase setup at Burnside and get the drums grouped and ready for mixing. The real album recording then starts in earnest!
More soon...
The four tracks had been mixed down into 'Stem mixes' by instrument group to allow Dave to be able to hear exactly what HE wanted to in his headphones during the takes.
The only slight technical hitch was that these were on PC based USB and the studio used a MAC! ...so, an elaborate transfer process was started to get tracks off the USB drive and onto a laptop then onto a USB memory stick and then imported into the Mac (all of which took up time and had odd hiccups along the way.
Still we endured and got there in the end!
The drum set up to mikes went very smoothly as Steve the Engineer knew his studio and setup extrememly well. We were ready to start recording in 3 hours!
The four tracks were across the spectrum in terms of complexity...two straight forward numbers, one 40 minute multi-part epic and a demanding odd signature time changes instrumental.
Dave took them all in his stride, so much so that we found at the end of the 2 days we had time to add some percussion touches in as well.
Dave took them all in his stride, so much so that we found at the end of the 2 days we had time to add some percussion touches in as well.
Photos etc. from the session can be found on our website www.guymanning.comOnce Steve has rendered the song takes into seperate WAV files for me, I can import them into my Cubase setup at Burnside and get the drums grouped and ready for mixing. The real album recording then starts in earnest!
More soon...
Thursday, 18 February 2010
CRS Date reminder
Please come and join the new ELEKTRIK MANNING line-up on their pre ROSFEST warm up gig for the Classic Rock Society (the first leg of the "2010 - YEAR WE MAKE CONTACT TOUR")
The Wesley Centre, Maltby, Rotherham on 20th March, tickets at priced £10 and £12.
This is the only chance to see the newest recruits in action in the UK before the Autumn and also to hear some new material from the forthcoming 'CHARLESTOWN' album.
We hope you can make it a date!
Tickets are already selling very well so please grab an advance reserved seat from the CRS Website at http://theclassicrocksociety.blogspot.com/
Cheers
GuyM Dave Julie Kris Kev Tim Steve Chris
The Wesley Centre, Maltby, Rotherham on 20th March, tickets at priced £10 and £12.
This is the only chance to see the newest recruits in action in the UK before the Autumn and also to hear some new material from the forthcoming 'CHARLESTOWN' album.
We hope you can make it a date!
Tickets are already selling very well so please grab an advance reserved seat from the CRS Website at http://theclassicrocksociety.blogspot.com/
Cheers
GuyM Dave Julie Kris Kev Tim Steve Chris
Thursday, 24 December 2009
A Merry Xmas & a Happy New Year!
2009 has been a very important year for us.
The new band line-ups have finally got MANNING music out to new audiences and we are gaining more momentum and going form strength to strength happilly.
So a big thank you to all the people who have bought the music or turned out to see us...we look forward to even bigger challenges that 2010 are going to bring to our door and we hope to see you down the road somewhere soon.
A big personal thank you to the MANNING line-ups (recording, live, past and present) for making 2009 such a milestone time!!
Have a great Xmas and really fab New Year - See you soon!
Guy
The new band line-ups have finally got MANNING music out to new audiences and we are gaining more momentum and going form strength to strength happilly.
So a big thank you to all the people who have bought the music or turned out to see us...we look forward to even bigger challenges that 2010 are going to bring to our door and we hope to see you down the road somewhere soon.
A big personal thank you to the MANNING line-ups (recording, live, past and present) for making 2009 such a milestone time!!
Have a great Xmas and really fab New Year - See you soon!
Guy
Sunday, 29 November 2009
MANNING completes its line-up!
MANNING completes its line-up!
Manning are pleased to announce the completion of the line-up with our new keyboard player Tim Leadbeater. Tim is the final member in our 8 piece line-up and you will be able to meet him at one of our performances for The Classic Rock Society in March and at RoSfest in Gettysburg, PA in May 2010.
We are currently scheduling even more gigs for next year and these will be announced asap.
We also have good news that the Manning album "Number Ten" has been nominated for the Fourth Edition of the Italian Progawards.
Finally, we can announce that our Classic Rock Society date is now being re-scheduled and will most likely be on sat. 20th March 2010 at The Wesley Centre, Maltby, Rotherham.
Hope to see you all soon!
Manning are pleased to announce the completion of the line-up with our new keyboard player Tim Leadbeater. Tim is the final member in our 8 piece line-up and you will be able to meet him at one of our performances for The Classic Rock Society in March and at RoSfest in Gettysburg, PA in May 2010.
We are currently scheduling even more gigs for next year and these will be announced asap.
We also have good news that the Manning album "Number Ten" has been nominated for the Fourth Edition of the Italian Progawards.
Finally, we can announce that our Classic Rock Society date is now being re-scheduled and will most likely be on sat. 20th March 2010 at The Wesley Centre, Maltby, Rotherham.
Hope to see you all soon!
Sunday, 1 November 2009
XMAS CRS Date Postponed until Spring 2010
This date has unfortunately had to put off as we are still seeking our last band member, that elusive principal KEYBOARDS!! (Is there anybody..OUT there???).
We will rearrange this for the Spring as part of our run up to the US date at ROSFEST 2010 in May
While we wait, advertise, audition etc..... work on new tracks for the next MANNING studio album has started in earnest.
6 pieces have been created, one of which is a long epic.
Our new lead guitarist, Chris Catling, is settling in and getting up to speed very quickly with the live MANNING back catalogue
Hope to see you all soon
More news as it it comes in
Guy
We will rearrange this for the Spring as part of our run up to the US date at ROSFEST 2010 in May
While we wait, advertise, audition etc..... work on new tracks for the next MANNING studio album has started in earnest.
6 pieces have been created, one of which is a long epic.
Our new lead guitarist, Chris Catling, is settling in and getting up to speed very quickly with the live MANNING back catalogue
Hope to see you all soon
More news as it it comes in
Guy
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