Game, Set, Coffee????

For the last two weeks, Ironwood have been in the recording studio- the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Eugene Goosens Hall, on a variety of projects, which we'll tell you about in due course. Julia had to go back to Europe last week - see the post about Austrian pillows (below), and Lisa joined us - adding to the coffee fans in the studio.

Recording is such a different thing from rehearsing and playing concerts. We all like to have our 'creature comforts' with us in the studio,to help our concentration. I like having a coffee first up, to sip as we go through our first takes in the morning, and lots of bananas or apples. Later on, when we're going over & over things, it degenerates into lollies (that's candy for our US readers & sweets for the UK ones...)- particularly red snakes, milkbottles, green frogs & chocolate (any sort, I'm not fussy!). Danny has been known to eat quite a bit of the chocolate as well,(when he's not being virtuous & sticking to his training diet) and you can usually find a strong cup of tea under his music stand.

Julia and Rachael, however, got themselves so organised during this recording! They had a table between them, on which they'd set up bottles of water, fruit, a thermos of tea, and chocolate, as well as all their spare strings, rosin & other string playing paraphenalia. We thought they looked like two tennis players, sitting there sipping their water between takes (or sets), so here's the picture above.

I guess you could say that recording runs on caffiene and sugar mostly, so now I know everyone's coffee order, I thought I might give you all a little guessing game - "Match the Musician to their Coffee Order" The musicians: Rachael, Julia, Lisa, Nicole, Danny. The coffees: Skim Cappucino, Soy Flat White, Green Tea, Flat White (no skim, no soy, no decaf, just coffee!), Soy Latte.

A coffee to anyone who can correctly match the drinkers with their coffees....