WHY I’M NOT A VINYL FAN
This might be a controversial one. Records are having a huge resurgence – people get ...
DIGITISING AN 8 TRACK REEL-TO-REEL
This is how we started in the early ’90s. Back then, we knew we’d really ...
SPEAKERS, SPEAKERS, SPEAKERS
If you’re building a studio, buy good speakers, or they are better known near-field studio ...
COMPARING MICROPHONES
Microphones are funny things. This one sitting in front of me is about 25 years ...
MIXING WITH HEARING LOSS
My hearing is shot, so how do I still mix music? My hearing isn’t great ...
ROYALTIES – THINK SYNC
In the age of streaming, where musicians get paid bugger all for a play, I ...
MY WORST EVER GIGS
People occasionally ask musicians about their best gigs. That’s easy enough – the packed venues, ...
CHEAP GUITAR VS NOT SO CHEAP GUITAR
People can get surprisingly passionate about guitars. The wood, pickups, brand, country it was made ...
DIY DOESN’T MEAN AMATEUR
I saw an interesting post recently from a musician who had spent the best part ...
RECORDING BASS IN OLDER
One of my absolute favourite parts of being in OLDER is playing bass, which ought ...
COMPARING BASSES
There’s a funny thing about instruments. Sometimes the one that’s technically better for you isn’t ...
BEHIND THE SELFIE ALBUM 2025
35 years of songs finally escaping the hard drive… Selfie, released in 2025, was a ...
BEHIND THE UNMASKED ALBUM 2024
Unmasked was our third OLDER album, released in 2024, and like our previous album HUMAN+, ...
GIVE IT TIME
There comes a point in recording vocals where excitement can actually become a bit dangerous ...
CONVERSATION STOPPER
When you meet new people around our age the conversation eventually gets to the standard ...
BEHIND THE HUMAN+ ALBUM 2021
Human+ was our second OLDER album, released in 2021, and looking back now it feels ...
OUR RECORD SHELFIE
This is the record equivalent of a ‘shelfie’. There’s probably three or four hundred albums ...
RICKY, MY FIRST LOVE
There’s always that one piece of gear, isn’t there? The one that sits in the ...
SNEAK PEEK AT ALBUM #5
Sometimes, just sometimes, a song taps me on the shoulder early and goes, “Yep, it’s ...
NOT EVERYTHING GETS RELEASED
There’s a part of making music that almost no one sees. Not the polished version, ...
AT HOME WITH OLDER 2026
It’s a bit surreal about looking back and realising just how much time has passed ...
OLD BASS, LOUD MEMORIES
There’s something about old gear that sneaks up on you. You don’t think about it ...
TOO OLD? NOT INTERESTED!
I’m as passionate about making music now as I was 40 years ago. That hasn’t ...
THEY START A BIT SCRAPPY
I’m Julie, the singer in OLDER, which still makes me laugh a bit because if ...
AT HOME WITH OLDER – SILENCE ALBUM 2019
This little self-filmed piece, At Home with OLDER, goes right back to 2017 before our ...


