Hi all, I have told you before that we were having difficulties recording the new album for our band. This was because our sax and keyboard player (who has been our recording engineer in his studio) has been very busy with other projects and with his studies. He is at College studying music. Also, two members of the band work shifts and so we found it difficult to combine their free time with the times available for recordings. Despite all this, we were finally nearing completion of the album when disaster struck. The recordings were all on the sax player's Portable Macintosh which he was carrying down to his studies in Barcelona and back up to the village where we are based. A few days back, he had his back pack stolen with the Mac inside it. So all our work over the last two years just disappeared with his backpack. Of the twelve tracks we were mixing down, we have rough edits in WAV format of seven of them which we might still be able to use for the album, but obviously we cannot now correct any errors in those mixes such as one instrument needing toning down or putting up in the mix. The other five songs are gone forever! So, it is back to square one for us. We are so downhearted that I am worried that the band will not be able to get over this disaster. What a tough way to learn to do back ups, eh? Hope you are all fine and listening to some great music out there, All the best Berni