Update

Kid Omega is currently both in the practice room hammering out awesome new material and at the same time in the studio recording the old stuff in the hopes that we can have a new full length coming at ya at least before the heat of summer is fully upon us. Stay tuned.

2009 Begins With a Battle

For those of you who have waited an entire month with ever-increasing impatience (or even anger) for an update, my apologies. Keegan and myself have apparently been too preoccupied with updating our own blogs to attend to the band blog (ahh, the tragedy of the commons).

Anyhow, last Friday we participated in the Battle of the Bands at Clark, and we had a great time. I was especially blown away by the extent of audience participation. It was a rush, and though we didn't win (that honor goes to our friend Adam Linder of Sister City, who Sean handled the drums for this night in addition to Kid Omega), we all came away from the show feeling good about the place we're at, and how far we've come in the last year and a half.

The blog takes a big step forward today with the inclusion of moving pictures--I got a video camera for Christmas, and my good friend (and frontman for Tiger Trap) James was willing to shoot our performance. Hope you enjoy this video of Elysion--you can find more videos on on our myspace.



(I'll try not to be rigid like a breadstick on stage from now on, I swear)

Mixes

So Adam has begun sending us the first mixes of the stuff we recorded the last two months and it sounds tremendous (if I do say so myself). He even gave me the bullhorn sound I wanted for the bridge of Elysion. This may really be the beginning of the end of the recording process, so keep your eyes peeled for a veritable bonanaza of recorded material to start cropping up on the myspace and for free download on last.fm.

A New Song

Hey, Greg here, surprisingly enough this is my first actual post on the band blog, I've wanted to in the past but have gotten hopelessly sidetracked (as I am wont to get). But I'm here now at long last, so here's an update on things:

Adam continues to work on mixing the songs we recorded in the studio, but since I have a little pocket recorder that I brought to the practice room today (to be honest its pretty much always in the guitar case), I figured that it might not be a bad idea to get a quick and dirty recording of the newest addition to our catalog o'songs to hold our readers/listeners over until we have some of the more polished stuff to post. It doesn't have a title yet--it's funny how sometimes writing the song can be easier than coming up with a title that fits. But in the end, who cares what's its called as long as you think that it sounds good?

Here it is: The New Song

Done

We are now done with recording until we bring our next set into the studio. Right now we are listening to Adam mix Rainn Wilson. It's pretty awesome. Hopefully we should have some mp3s to post here before you know it.

Live from the studio!

I'm sitting in the studio right now because today we are putting the final touches (hopefully) on the first four songs. First Greg will be recording his vocals and then we'll throw some feedback on A Song for Geoff to Sing and finally throw some backing vocals on Overwrought and Elysion. Then a bit of a final mixdown and we're done. I'll keep coming back to post updates which I guess would make this LIVE BLOGGING!!!!

On another note please check out Kid Omega's new side project Funion. Greg and I had tossed this idea around for a while since we came up with it while we were in New York. On Friday Adam, Greg and I ended up getting locked out of our studio so we went back to our room and starting messing around with recording stuff on Greg's computer. We're pretty psyched about what came out of it so check it out here.

Progress Update

So recording got a little derailed by Adam's being sick and then that stupid Thanksgiving thing. But now we're back on track and planning to get right back to it starting Friday. By my count we only have to do Greg's vocals, backing vocals, and a few nit-picky things like feedback and a bass part I forgot. In all probability we will finish this weekend, though now that I've jinxed us into oblivion.....who knows?
In other news, we've been working on a brand new song and things are coming along really well. In retrospect that update doesn't sound that exciting. But hopefully I will have more to say about this song soon when we take it into the studio as part of our second batch of songs to record.