Winners!

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Caroline Meeuwen CD+free entrance
Stoffel Jannsens Tshirt + free entrance
Glenn laeveren free entrance
Romy vrancken free entrance
Gretha serroeyen free entrance

Contest

So with the releaseparty coming, we have a contest for you!!
What are we giving away?

1st Prize: Brand new Rovic CD + free entrance to the releaseshow
2nd Prize: Brand new Rovic Tshirt + free entrance to the releaseshow
3rd - 5th Prize: Free entrance for the releaseshow

QUESTION:
On Tuesday 20 May, what is the sum of all the ages of the Rovic members???
In case of ex aequo:
How many answers will we receive??


Send your answer before Friday 23 May via Message, and we will pick the closest answers and we'll announce them on our blog!

I...you mastered!

And it can be found at:
OUR MYSPACE

Cd release party!

So, it is finally coming!
Our new album is being mastered as we speak and we are siked!

So we have a releaseparty for you!

24 may in JH De Klinker in Aarschot.

With lovely bands such as:
The Whesley
Draw me a cow
The maple room

It all starts at 19h, first band 20h.

AT LAST

Okay, we are getting where we have been waiting for! The mix is done, and can be sent to the mastering. Release date is set. Merch and design are on the drawing table. The Rovic machine is rolling again!

I'll post you some snippets soon!! ;)

Rovic and Draw me a cow

Welll on February 8 our friends from Draw Me A Cow will be releasing their first album "Lets end this"! Check their myspace, it sounds great! Draw me a cow myspace

We will play their release party in Silly near Ath together with Draw me a cow and Milk The Fish! Fun fun fun! ;)

The plans?

Well the plan is finishing the record by Februari 1 2008! (Without mastering)
Stick to the plan, cause the plan is right! ;)

Rovic @ Negasonic Aalst

Last weekend we played at Negasonic in Aalst.
Thanks to Niels for the cool video!
This is btw a new song! Home in the maze!

Happy NewYear!

Welll we all wish you all the best for 2008!

What do we wish for ourselves?
- A new rockin album
- Great shows
- World domination
- Groupies of all sorts (Well Sabine has decided to give up on groupies and say yes to her all time favorite groupie for life, so we'll divide her share fairly!)
- Oh and futile things like health too! ;)

We'll keep you posted!

After two days Luc...

Welll I've been in the vocal booth for two days singing, screaming, sweating,... but mostly sweating! Goddamit it gets hot in an iron shower booth! But it doesn't sound bad at all! So hooray for transpiration!

Here you all get some pics but more important a soundbyte of I..you as its being recorded at the moment! This can count as a preview, 'cause you are the first to hear what it sounds like! Comments, comments, comments!

Waiting days...

Soo we are waiting for the tracks to be mixed so that the new recordings can start. Have we been doing nothing at all then? No way, we've had two great gigs!

Saturday a super cool gig at the Rock&Trolls festival in Leuze-en-Hainaut! Great location, blasting sound and enthusiastic crowd. We love "La Wallonie"! We say it every time but it always occurs to us that the organisation of a show is always a little bit better in the French speaking part of our country. I'm sure it has something to do with the fact that they don't have the overkill of a show every weekend, so when they do something they rather do it good. And as a band, you notice that...

Yesterday it was the big "De Moens en Vounckx birthday show" at jh De Klinker in Aarschot. Great lineup, Funeral Pyre, Second Base, Rovic and Homer. No way that could go wrong! And it bloody hell didn't. We all had a great time!! Nice job birthday boys, same place next year???

Day 4 and 5: the click track, more guitars, the vocals and mixing time

Okay I skipped a day to blog. Not that it was all my fault, didn't have internet when I woke up day 5 so couldn't blog on day 4... and afterwards I had to sing... But no prob I'll give you an update on what we did these 2 days in the studio.

Day 4 was mostly about the guitars. We Joris, Jimmy and I started early in the morning with setting up the guitars and looking for some cool sounds for our songs. We finetuned Joris his guitar sound and made sure he could bust some balls hitting his rocking chords! When Luc arrived we immediately started with the recording of Jimmy's guitar. Like we were getting used this didn't quite go as easy as planned. But hey, we want to work hard to get it as good as we can! At about 9 in the evening, Joris could start with his first guitar parts. Some songs were recorded but the rest was for our final day...

Day 5 started with Joris his final guitar riffs. Jimmy also did some final tweekings from some riffs and then we had a long listen to the whole tracks. We ended with Sabine and me doing a pilot of our vocals so Luc can start with the mixing of the tracks we have so far.

Looking back: we could say we started recording with not enough rehearsals to actually play our songs without effort. Thanks to Luc we all fell that we were reaching a new level in music playing. That was looking back the most rewarding thing of these first 5 days of studio... we learned how to operate and play as a rocking machine instead of 6 people playing together. Have we arrived at that rocking level? Hell no! But from now on we have an idea how to improve our playing. On both a live rocking but also a recording level.

So for now, Luc is going to mix the tracks and then we hit his studio again for a complete vocal recording session.

Joris recording:

Day 3: More pain, some frustration and a bass

Some days, doesn't matter what you do, it will go wrong! Today was such a day... after recording the last parts of the drum, it was time for Joeri to take up the bass and hit the strings. Unfortunately the mighty Rickenbacker didn't quite agree... after plugging it in we noticed that there was a remarkable volume difference between the low strings and the higher strings... troubles, troubles troubles... after searching and tweaking with everything we could imagine: different cables, batteries, you name it... we decided to start the bass lines with the "Music man" bass. Not that thats not a good bass, it's in fact also a very cool instrument... but once you set you're mind on a type of sound its hard to think differently.

But well, after all the bass was recorded! Tomorrow the guitars...

Here the photo gallery of day 2 and 3! Where you see the last recordings of the drums, the bass troubles and the final recordings of the bass.

Hooray for inspiration!

It's a common fact that most people can do that tiny little bit extra when they are under some sort of stress. This is off course no different with Rovic. With no less then 6 days before S-day (Studio day for the dummies ;) )we finally finished all our songs yesterday. In a hellish tempo, creativity struck us and I must say I'm very pleased with the results. Catchy as hell so you can all sing along!
So for now there is only one thing for us to do! Put the clicktrack on, and rehearsel some more!! Just 6 nights to go... kinda like waiting for xmas... but now we won't get gift! We'll be making our own gift!