Squadcar: Making Misses (Glenn version)

Misses was a mini-album that squadcar recorded with Christopher McGuire, who was at the time drummer for uber-cool Japanese band Quruli. The sessions became stuff of legend, though not always for good reasons. Ryan Skelton made a mini-doco about the sessions (that I will post later) from footage that I took throughout, but I wasn't really happy with it, and Christopher DEFINITELY wasn't happy with it. I made this one kind of as a reaction to that, it contains footage also of a video that students from the Tokyo College of Creative Arts made of the title song..

In Ryan's defence, he didn't think much of my version either, and he's now making a million dollar movie!

Valentine

Valentine Records is a collective of bands that do events and release albums in Tokyo, but the name came from a mini-album that squadcar did way back in 2004. Deguchi-san from the Garage took a blurry picture that I had taken when my good mate Rich bumped me on the ferry to Miyajima, and turned it into a great cover! He also added the little squiggly pic that became part of our logo for a bit!

Make mine a Vox..

Knockout is a little recording studio in Shimokitazawa where squadcar recorded a few times. It was small and the gear was pretty stock for the most part, but they had these amps...

The Black Shakes @ VRP 4

At the start of this song Justin was showing me that he had just broken the headstock on his guitar, I was trying to focus in on it as they blasted into the song. The Black Shakes once again rocked the hell outta VRP..