Pete

Hurrah! Fudge was always my FAVOURITE fanzine, even though I've never actually bought a copy or read more than a couple of pages of each issue ever!

Is it actually out yet? And being on it, do I get a free copy cos I've got that pisscranes song on there, I helped write and performed in the panto and carol AND helped write and performed on the Metal Lickaz track?!?!

Who can forget 'a single truth' by WBL, still available in One Up records with one song soon to be released on the new Lockjaw compilation. Rippa.

I'd give it a bash if you got desperate, I'd say I'm quite familiar with the toons. I ain't played a gig in AGES, would quite enjoy getting on stage, even if it was with Deadloss;)

As far as I was always concerned, a proper producer ie Rick Rubin, Ross Robinson, Butch Vig etc takes the songs a band writes and makes little tweaks and changes to the songs to make them as good as they can be. The producer essentially becomes a member of the band for a few months. One of the best examples of this is the demo version of Blind by Korn and the album version - there's huge sections of that song taken out. THAT is producing in my mind, along with helping the band get guitar sounds etc. They help craft the band and the bands path for the next couple of years until they record their next album, basically. People like Captain Tom or Mark Nicol, 95% of the time they get a band in, they set the mics up, get the sound the band wants and then presses record and that's pretty much it. A few helpful hints along the way to make it sound better but on the whole, no producing - in my mind that is. (In case he's reading this, I would say Mark TOTALLY produced the pisscranes track I recorded for the Fudge Xmas CD cos there were certainly aspects of that I didn't have a scooby what I wanted to do or what I should do or how to even pull it off so that track is DEFO produced by Mark!) So, rather than asking who the best producer is or whatever, you should really be asking who the best person is to RECORD your music is unless you're willing to spend a good few months and a fair bit of money making demos and re-recording songs over and over until it's perfick. If anyone can correct my views of what a producer does, feel free, that's all just come from slightly-educated guesses.

I think we're missing the point here..... PISSCRANES TRACK ONE!!!!!!!! That man knows quality when he hears it!

Is there not an award for the best jingle....?

So what's the track listing then?!

Why, thank you:) It's called 'The Three Months Of Christmas'.

I'm offended that I can't see them properly without squinting, it's ruining my eyes.

I got 90 and only cos I didn't know who wasn't up for an Award. And it's a suprise to me, really, I don't own a single copy of Fudge...

The Three Months Of Christmas by pisscranes, released later this month on the Fudge Xmas CD! God, I'm so good at this self-promotion bollocks...

I do believe it's short of 'Lincoln Park' as in the place they used to hang out in, or something...

With a story like that, you should be thinking more about getting a room...

I saw her in Edinburgh about two weeks ago and she was AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACE!

The pisscranes Xmas song is done and dusted. It was played in the Asda by the Corn Exchange in Edinburgh yesterday and there were three enquires regarding if there was an album available.....:| I didn't think it was that great tbh...

And have they played a Fudge event in the last year? Isn't that a must to be nominated...?

Well, if they lost by one single point, that would mean it would be something like 99 points to Contra and 100 points to whoever won, so Amy voting would have actually meant they would have had 100 points too and therefore a tie. What would you have done then, huh? Thanks for not voting last year Amy, you could have made it affa complicated

I'm lucky if I can get it up at ALL these days but that's a completely different story, children...

Well, I'm offended that pisscranes isn't in this catagory...

We! Are! Metal!

http://www.tbmc.ie/ I'm there, that would make a FUCKING ACE wee holiday!