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An unexpected discovery

My family and i have been living in Bellingen for just over 8 months now. In that time we have met some wonderful people. One guy I met, Josh, is a totally good guy, plays music, family man etc. We worked out a week or so ago that we went to school together and we played in our first band together – spooky and awesome. I have a beard and glasses now and he is sporting a Beastie Boys ‘Sabotage’ style moustache. Needless to say, we look very different to when we were 14 years old.

Two days ago he gave me a copy of some music he has been working on, i was blown away. He has managed to write some really catchy hooks and has captured the sound of 1965. Amazing. I asked for the recording sessions and mixed three songs for him. Totally wicked!

Click on the link below to listen to one of his tracks. If you want to hear more email me scott@noiselab.com.au TheDrifter – Josh Mackenzie

The Explainers

Noiselab was recently employed to help The Explainers create ‘explainer’ video’s for their website. An ‘explainer’ is short instructional video that entertains and informs potential customers about a product. If your company needs one then click here.

Foxtel promo mixing

We have just finished mixing some promos for Foxtel, handling some fo their overflow – History and Crime.

Album Launch Sat 17 March

The Mid Morth is having an album launch at the Lodge241 in Bellingen on Sat 17 March.Please book tables in advance as it is almost booked out. I will see you there for much whooping and a hollering. Please bring a stringed instrument along for a jam after the main act.

‘you were right about the stars’

Hi Folks,

My debut bluegrass/americana album is finished and available for public consumption. Woohoo!

Please visit itunes or www.cdbaby.com/themidnorth

The band name is ‘The Mid North’ and the album is ‘you were right about the stars’

The album features so many great players and performances including Mick Albeck on fiddle (Kasey Chambers, Paul Kelly), Ian Cooper on fiddle (James Morrison), Kat Mear on Fiddle (Big Bug Trio), Jenny Shimmin on banjo (Freaking Amazing), Pete Fidler on dobro (Big Bug Trio, Ross Nickerson on banjo (USA XTrain), Peter McLaughlin on guitar (USA best bluegrass guitarist 1986), Mark Miracle on Mandolin (USA XTrain) and Bob Denoncourt on double bass (USA XTrain).

The album was mostly tracked and entirely mixed in Bellingen. Holy Water was recorded in a motel room at the National Bluegrass Festival in Harrietville in Nov 2011……it sounds super cool.

Hardcopies of the Album can be ordered via: scott@noiselab.com.au

you were right about the stars

The bluegrass album that i have been writing and recording over the last year is so, so close to being finished. It will be out in the new year. I have only one song that i am tweaking. The track order has been finalised and the album artwork is being done as i write by Trish at Silo6.

Harrietville National Bluegrass Festival 2011

As many of you know, a big recreational interest of mine is playing and writing Bluegrass music. The Harrietville National Bluegrass Festival 2011 was on in late November. I was playing there with Burnt Creek from NSW on the Friday night – very exciting. At 1.30pm on the friday i received a phone call saying that the American headline act ‘XTrain’ had heard an original track of mine and wanted me to get up and sing it with them. I said yes of course. I met the band and we rehearsed the song twice before their Friday show. I got up and sang Rosewood from my forthcoming album. It was a hoot. The guitarist of X-Train Peter Mcloughlin, won ‘Best Bluegrass Guitarist in America’ in 1988. Ross Nickerson is a banjo maestro, Bob Denoncourt is amazing on double bass and Mark Miracle on mandolin – his name says it all. So being on stage playing my song with these musicians was a tremendous honour and such fun. The crowd was enormously appreciative and i was super stoked. As if this was not enough, X-Train asked me to play with them on the Sunday as well, only this time they wanted to play two of my tracks…..Amazing. The band then asked if they could cover Rosewood on their next album. I said ummmmmm, yes. It was such a great festival. Click below to hear the live track.

Rosewood Xtrain