Greetings all! Spring has sprung and The Clippers have a spring in their step because we’ve almost finished recording our next album and we’re loving it!

After not recording for so long we were a bit wary of going to the studio. It’s never been a truly happy hunting ground for us. You know. We’re a live act. But we’ve had a ball!

It may be an indictment on our past selves but this time when we recorded there were no drugs, no alcohol and no friends hanging round and boy did it make a difference. People were concentrating, they could listen to ideas and put them into practice really quickly. No-one said “Oops. Sorry” or “Aarghh! I’ve fucked it up again!” or “I just can’t get it!” Actually I said all of the above but I don’t want to go into it. Let’s just say Rawhide won’t be on the record.

We got Garrett Costigan to come in and play pedal steel on a few tracks. Boy is he good!

We rerecorded some of the old favourites like Footscray and The Ute (at least the 5th time in my life that I’ve put that song on a record but we’ve done a job on it so its almost a pop song now), some newies that you already know if you’ve been to the gig a few times and some that you’ve never heard before.

Can’t wait to hear what you think.

And now for today’s band joke….

Big Jim saved my life once when I was being beaten up outside a pub by a bunch of guys. He told the rest of the band “He’s had enough.”

Cheers!

Stretch Denholme, lead vocalisator.