10 August 2002
Finally! The computer has been switched on again and news of Mumbly come flooding in! The question is: what has happened to Mumbly in this long silence. Some of you might think that we were busy (but doing what...) and did not have time to:
1- play music
2- update the webpage
3- both
but we come up with a more natural and reasonable explanation. Our bassist Michaël was kidnapped by a group of activists, the TDBB (Turn Down the Bass Brigade), who demanded a ransom high enough to buy our supplies of fig biscuits for one whole week! They told us in a very threatening voice to put the money in a big bag if we wanted to see him again, to which we replied "keep him". But they didn't. We assume he babbled them to death.
Anyhow with our bassist again on top form, we recorded a track for a compilation of covers of Cat's Miaow songs. The instigator of this brilliant idea is Siu Hoi Leung from Hong Kong. We covered the song "Troisième étage", a 1'50 number that we recorded in something like 6 months. Upon hearing the master after it was done, I kind of think Michaël did not stay long enough in captivity...