The Stuns explore a groove...

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As I mentioned The Stuns are currently writing songs for their next album. We've been making some good progress and will have some new songs to perform at our Barfly (Camden, London) show on Saturday 13th November. 

I was tempted to show you a sneak peak here but I'm a little hesitant to give you too much information. You may have to be patient (or come to our gigs) if you want to hear new songs. Although, if the guys approve, I may post something later in the week. 

For now I'm going to give you this little snippet of a groove that Ed broke into in our writing session today, which we then proceeded to "jam" over for a solid 8 or so minutes. I've cut the start off as I didn't want to scare you off listening. But if you have the time and inclination have a listen to how the original idea slowly changes and develops. Little ideas get passed around and someone else changes their part as a result. I liked playing the groove and it's always fun challenging yourself, not only to listen to what others are adding and react to that, but to dig into your creativity for some new ideas to move the groove forward. The last minute is us getting a little "Pink Floyd", just because we felt like it at the time. 

If you like really fast drum fills but don't have time to wade through the whole track skip forward to about 3:30 for a little bit of Ed Thorn cutting loose momentarily. 



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