I hope you're all having a great Easter Weekend. I'm busy organising things for Nashville tomorrow. The album is sounding great but its a long process to make because me and Andy are engineering and producing. One of the great advantages of having artistic freedom is we can make whatever album we want to and and have whatever mix of songs we like on it. We started off with the quite rocky songs back in january but last night i watched as Mike added congas to an acoustic track and I attempted to learn the 'appalachian dulcimer'. I hope all the varying styles will gel together when they're all mixed.

I'm looking forward to spending a couple of weeks in the U.S. I've still got a load of lyrics to finish (gulp), I'd better pack a rhyming dictionary...

all the best


jez

Hello all, I hope you’re all feeling festive. We’re still finishing the video for Fear Of Flying but what we’ve done so far looks great. We’re all going out for a Christmas curry tonight (although I’m still feeling slightly liverish after last night’s excessive Christmas drinking) I hope you’v READ...

Hello everyone out there, I just thought I’d keep you up to date with the filming of our video for Fear Of Flying. I don’t think we realized how much work would be involved in trying to make a stop-frame animation video (the same effect was used in Peter Gabriel’s Sledgehammer video made by Nick Par READ...

Hello everyone, I hope you are all in fine fettle. As you can see from the photos, Farrah had a very special guest at the studio. Kaela Kimura is a big star in Japan and Farrah happens to be one of her favourite bands. She flew over to write a song with me for her album, and to sing on a Farrah trac READ...

Well hello everybody, I hope you’re all having a great weekend. I am unsurprisingly hungover after celebrating Will’s birthday last night. I have tried my usual cure of Ibuprofen, halloumi cheese, coffee and ‘emergence c’ an American vitamin drink which cures almost anything. I feel a bit ‘peeky’. READ...

I'm not sure who "Art" is and why he would willingly give up a glass of sake, but there you go. A brief update on progress. The band are now in the final throes - some might say death throes - of the artwork for the album so we can meet our delivery deadline in Japan and hopefully get the record out READ...

Time for a managerial despatch from the band's first trip to Italy. Once upon a time, in a small town in the Tuscan hills called Borgo A Mozzano, lived a young man named...well...let's call him Bob. Bob dreamed of making it big in the music biz and, inevitably, left Borgo A Mozzano in the early 1990 READ...

After a very long night I'm over the moon to tell you all that the album is mixed and is getting mastered later today! I hope all is well with all of you. I'm heading home to grab a couple of hours sleep beofre heading off to the mastering suite (mastering is when they take the finished mixes and a READ...

Well we're in the home straight now for the record. We're mixing Fear Of Flying today which sounds really cool. We're putting some airport recordings on the intro that we've made on our travels.Tthe studio seems to have a serious leak as it's been raing cats and dogs today. Talking of cats and dogs. READ...

Hello everyone, We're mixing a track called No Reason Why today. It's a jaunty little number about bereavement and clinical depression witha brass section...... jez READ...

It's the longest day of the year today and it seems to me like the longest album recording session of all time. All the tracks are sounding amazing and Ben (who worked on Me Too)is twiddling his knobs very hard to polish the mixes. We're working on one of the first songs we recorded back in January, READ...

Hello all. I hope you’re all having a great summer. Sorry I haven’t posted for a while, I’m on flaky email and internet at the moment and keep getting disconnected. Things have been busy down at the studio. We recorded some flutes and saxophone and trumpet this week which was really good fun (big th READ...

The mighty Farrah touring machine grinds into action once again, today, Thursday 4 May. Bad Machines are / should be on a ludicrous train journey between Toulouse and Madrid which is so long - 13 hours - I can only assume that the train is stopping at Istanbul or somewhere. I myself, Farrah's trusty READ...

We're in the final laps making the magnificent 3rd farrah opus. And things are going well. Recorded so far are: Dumb Ditty As Soon As I Get Over You Wristband Generation Fear Of Flying Hopeless Situation Colour Of Your Love Lonely Boy (a cover version of the Andrew Gold classic) Stay Tog READ...

Jez and I have just got back from a secret 4 day trip to Japan...the secret being a brief acoustic performance by Jez at the wedding of our label boss Nobu and his beautiful wife Ikumi in Tokyo! People were - to say the least - surprised when Jez appeared! He played "Tongue Tied", "Say It Again" and READ...

we have a deadline on wednesday this week. we've got to get 3 songs finished so the wheels of industry can stir into action and start the promotional & business stuff for the album. obviously, we're running late so this weekend we've been using 2 studios. Today Jez is working in "Studio A" doing READ...

Hey all, Having had most of the fun so far recording drums, my new DW kit sound ace, it's now time for Jez and Andy to make my ears bleed for a change. I can't understand how it takes so long to choose which guitar through which amp using which mic, but it keeps them happy...and it ends up soundi READ...

Hello all, it's good to know you've been tuning in on the webcam! The recording is going well. Mike's new DW kit sounds awesome and the mesa boogie amp we've been playing with makes my trousers flap. We're recording using protools which we're learning as we go along. Today we're recording a song cal READ...

Hello all, I’m heading down to the studio today to record some guitars with Andy. It’s always an interesting experience when you get involved in a new album. It’s been really fun so far. My diet now seems to be completely biscuit based. More news as it happens Jez x READ...

hello everyone, I'm in the studio today and waiting for Mike to come and rehearse a new song for the record. We're already behind schedule but I promise you we're going to deliver an amazing album. Keep watching the webcam for thrilling stills from the control room Jez READ...

Hope everyone out there is having a great weekend. We're heading to the studio today to rehearse a new song fo the new album. The webcam will be switched on when we get there so please feel free to say hello on the chat board! Lots of love jez READ...

Hello all, I hope it's going well out there. Just wanted to tell you that we're in the studio tomorrow and we will hopefully have the webcam switched on. It is now 18 days since I had an alcoholic drink. It’s an interesting experiment I try every January. ‘Is life worth living without Guinness?, READ...