| MEG & DIA are now unsigned... but new songs are on the way! |
| Written by Shahlin Graves |
| Sunday, 25 July 2010 16:53 |
 Although MEG & DIA were dropped from their record label Warner Bros. earlier this year, that hasn't spelled out the end of their band. All five members - sisters Meg and Dia Frampton, drummer Nicholas Price, bassist Jonathan Snyder, and lead guitarist Carlo Gimenez - recorded new songs recently, in a cabin in the middle of the woods in Oregon. Dia has said on Myspace that: "We recorded at a cabin in Tillamook, Oregon in the middle of the woods. We paid for it ourselves through our savings and did everything ourselves this time. We hired a young friend, our age, to help co-produce and engineer, and set up the studio in the tiny cabin. (Poor Nick had to sleep on an air mattress on the floor by Jonathan and Carlo). There was no room in the living room and there were chords and wires everywhere. We all huddled around the drums and amps every night to watch the NBA play offs. (The TV was set on an amp as well). We recorded a lot of the songs live instrumentally. We had it set up so that we could all just jam, and everyone had a mic. So when we decided to record a take, we would all play together and just record it as a whole. I believe now a days, there is so much pushing and prodding and re-setting in music that when you get the finished product, it sounds like it was made by a computer rather than 5 people in a room. Eeeee! :( I used to thrive on that. Now I've grown. I told you, I'm a slow learner. We wrote all the songs, some together, some separately. Meg liked to write by the beach ( it was beautiful) and I liked to write quietly in my room. This time there is no auto-tuned vocals, no doubling chunky guitars, no adding on of tons of horns and layer after layer after layer of nonsense. It's just us, as raw as we can make it." Currently, Dia has been attempting to find a job in New York: "I've been trying to get a job, but New York places, especially restaurants, only take people with "2 years NY experience" whatever that means. It's been tough, real tough, but I suppose a lot of people are feeling it. I get more nervous at job interviews than I do singing on stage. It's ten minutes of someone judging you and looking at your resume and seeing that you only went to high school and that your list of skills is mostly things they don't care for at all. (I told one restaurant that I could sing the entire menu to the guests. They didn't find it funny)." Read the entirety of Dia Frampton's 'New York hire me!' blog HERE. Watch a new video of Meg & Dia recording in the studio below...  |
