Some good news first. Im making an album. SIt will be at least another 2 months before its finished. Basically all the guitar, drum and bass tracks are recorded (except for one song which needs a bass track-this is being outsourced so it will take a little longer). That leaves the vocals which need to be recorded for 5 more songs. Vocals take ages to get right so I'll give about 3 weeks for this. Then comes the mixing which takes even longer, 5 of the songs which are up here are fully mixed etc, that leaves 7. This will again take 3 weeks to finish.

Having made my own double concept album-Symphonie Schizophrenique, its my experience that albums can drag out beyond the expected date to be completed, usually due to unforeseen events, problems and so on. 

So what about The Phoenix? Well its basically just me now unfortunately, its been next to nigh perpetually impossible to find musicians-usual problem-timewasters. What I would give for a decent backing band. Im doing this current album for The Phoenix to put a cap on the 4 year history of the band. It will be documentative so to speak.

We started in 04 as Dust. Due to lots of drama, disappointments, diva tantrums, drugs, sex, drugs, violence, satan worship and so on we fell apart. Then we (ahem) cleaned up our act and reformed as The Phoenix- rising from the ashes/dust. After searching intensively for 6 months (a continuation of our quest for musicians following the departure of our bassist and drummer in Winter of 2005) we thought we had a near complete line up.