Electrical Audio

Spring is here, and I personally am quite glad that the sun has been out so much lately!  Today in particular is very exciting, as we are heading to Chicago for a quick recording session with Steve Albini at Electrical Audio. This came about as part of a contest through a music business course at Illinois State University.  Werepire Day was one of three bands considered by Professor Rose Marshack and her students for an interactive lesson in which a band would record in a real studio setting, and the students would get to see how things work and ask questions. We get to be the guinea pig, and brief as this session will be, we are grateful and thrilled for the chance to work with such an iconic recording engineer!

We'll update you soon on our experience at Electrical Audio, along with further plans to record and more cool announcements.

Thanks for stopping by,

Chris + Werepire Day

Movie stuff! (part one)

We recently learned that some of our music will be featured in a film that is presently in pre-production.  We Had This Band is a film written by Andy Steadman, a longtime ally of the music and arts community in central Illinois. He'll also be directing and acting in the movie.  They are slated to shoot on location in Normal, IL this summer, and they will be holding an informational event, and celebration of sorts, on Friday, March 29th at Jan Brandt Gallery in Bloomington, IL. For more information, check here. 

Additionally, this movie will feature music by Steven (one of Chris' other bands) and The Spend (the music of Matt Shaw, a friend responsible for the artwork in the CD copies of Redefiner, and the front and back covers of the forthcoming vinyl copies of Redefiner!).

 

Check back soon, as we have one other movie tidbit to announce!

Otherwise, we are working hard on new material, and will be entering the studio again in a couple of months to commit Dayseizer (our full length debut) to tape.  Thanks for stopping by, and look here for more information on our record(s), new shirts, and more shows soon! 

Demonstrations:

First up, THANK YOU to everyone who attended one (or more) of our shows over the past two months!  We had a great time playing with old friends and meeting new ones.  Keep an eye out for a couple of dates that we'll be playing later this spring, but in the meantime, check out some demos we recorded this past month!  All four of these songs will be rerecorded for our full length later this spring, but we wanted to give you guys an idea of what we've been working on, and where we are headed in the near future!  With that said, please have a listen:

"Kid, Eh?" is one of the newest of the new songs!  This one is really fun to play.

"CODY"'s been brewing for a couple of years, but it's FINALLY come to fruition with the present lineup!

"Xuxax" is a little different for us, but then again, eclectic is what we do!

"Dayseizer" is the title track for our forthcoming full length debut!

Let us know what you think! And, check back soon as more news is on the way!

Chris + Werepire Day

2013ish

Hello friends!

What a show-packed end to 2012 we had!  We've also been writing songs feverishly, and we'll be heading in to demo them the last weekend of this month.  Once the kinks are worked out, we'll be heading back into Earth Analog with Matt Talbott to continue (and finish) work on "Daysiezer", the followup to "Redefiner", and our proper full length debut!

We've got a couple of great shows in the next month and a half, and we're in the process of booking some more. "Redefiner" will finally arrive on vinyl in a limited run in the next two months, and we intend to issue a very limited green cassette with some exclusive songs.  Truth.

Lastly, we have some great shirt designs at present, and you can see and order one for yrself in just a few short days when our Big Cartel shop finally goes live this weekend!

We hope your year is off to a great start, and we look forward to seeing you and getting loud soon!

Chris + Werepire Day

Expands.

Well well, Summer is officially here.  The air is thick, and we've been playing and recording accordingly. "Daysiezer", the in-progress follow-up to "Redefiner", is coming along at Earth Analog Studios in Tolono, IL with our friend Matt Talbott at the controls.  We're about halfway done with the basics and some overdubs on the first half of the record.  The second half will proceed in the near future, and we're hoping to bring this into the world sometime this Fall!

In the meantime, the chances to see us have been plentiful, and they are continuing (check the Shows section).  In fact, the next opportunity to catch Werepire Day will be this Friday at Firehouse Pizza in Normal with The Forecast, Dripping Slits, and Modus Aurora.  That's a doozy!  It will be interesting as well, as it will be the first Werepire Day set featuring entirely different humans standing/sitting next-to/behind me. We've (relatively) long rotated in different drummers, schedule and circumstance depending, but this will be the first instance where Bri Guy will not be holding down the low end.  Rather, Landon R. will be playing the bass and possibly helping with some background vocals.  Along with Ryan T. on the drums, this will be a slick (and nervous?) Werepire Day, injecting a little more speed into some of our songs. Please come out, and consider heckling these new (and recently new) members of the gang!

Landon

Ryan

Them's the guys, and we will see you Friday.  Welcome to summer, and be sure to check out the restocked t-shirts at our shows, and be on the lookout for a Werepire Day Big Cartel store soon!

Thanks,

Chris + Werepire Day