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Graheme in the Studio
Graheme is currently working in the studio engineering and mixing Vanden Plas. The tracks are for the VP's new album «On the Rise»
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The button above is a link to the PRS For Music site where you can show your support for their fight to get Google to pay royalties for the music videos on YouTube - a site which Google now own. It seems that Google, a company with over 3 billon dollars in income claims that they can't afford to pay.They should have thought of that before they bought YouTube then! Its like someone who has ordered goods COD and when the delivery man is at the door they are slapping their pockets claiming to be short of cash - its embarrassing.
David, Jon and Graheme have booked themselves into various West Sussex studios to blow the cobwebs off the old songs in preparations for a 2009 Spring CD release of their original live set.
Yew Tree Music plan to release the album the VP's never got round to finishing before. Its working title is «ON THE RISE» Bassist David tells me that the rehearsals are going very well "It's like we've never been away"
Graheme and David are busy writing and demoing songs for the follow up album and so far they have four completed demos between them for «TERMS AND CONDITIONS»
Vanden Plas split in 1996 but have now signed a deal with YEW TREE MUSIC. The deal includes new recordings of the original set and a
new album.
I have been busy adding more videos from the 1992 show at the Portsmouth Pyramids. The tracks now available are :
Graheme tells me that he is still working in the studio on his new CD which will be called Year of Return'. Our art department has been busy coming up with a selection of designs for approval. The track listing for the CD has not yet been finalised.
We have heard that three of the earlier EP cassette releases are being remastered and bonus tracks that are remixed and remade new versions of the originals songs are to be included to make full CD releases. David Wilson has already remixed and made a version of 'Sailway' which originally appeared on the 1989 release entitled 'Cartoon'.
Our own Vicia Faba is now on soundlink.com. Find the band at Vicia Faba at Soundlink
You can also find out about the music and the tunes from the second album Travellers with Strange Stories
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