Happy New Year!

Now the snow is finally starting to go away, Calder Recordings is gearing up for another eventful year which will feature further expansion of our facilities, including a brand new analogue mixing console.

To celebrate we are running a deal throughout January, givimg you a FREE HOUR in the studio.

Weekend day sessions (8 hours, 10am-6pm) for just £175. Contact us now to avoid disapointment!

Calder Recordings have joined forces with Halifax's premier guitar showroom, Guitarzone to offer you two ways to save this Christmas!

Anyone recording with us through December or January will get a complimentary voucher allowing them a 10% discount off their next purchase at Guitarzone.

Likewise, make a purchase over the festive sesaon at Guitarzone and get a voucher to record with us at a 10% discount anytime until Easter.

Only one voucher per client, not to be used in conjunction with any other offer, valid until 30th April 2010.

Are you stuck for a Christmas gift idea? Do you want to treat yourself?

Just for fun or to make a professional demo, this could be their stepping stone to stardom! Choose from our range of singing experience packages. We offer gift vouchers (valid for 6 months) that are perfect to pop in a card. Perhaps you know someone who who'd love to make a CD? This is a fantastic gift for a special occasion.

Click here for more details...

We got asked so many times by bands and artists on how they could release and sell their music and get into the charts we decided to launch our own music publishing service to help them!

If you're in a band or are a solo artist and you'd just love to professionally release your music and have it distributed throughout the world, let us help you make your dreams come true. Releasing music 'properly' can be a daunting and long winded process, particularly if you want you music to be chart registered AND make money for you if played on the radio!

With our one stop shop solution, we take care of everything for you!

You will get 100% of all the sales AND 100% of all royalties paid.

For more details of this fantastic service click here.

Halifax indie rock 5-piece Codego pushed themselves to the limit to record their debut album, although the recording was a walk in the park compared to their 3 peaks fundraising challenge.

The three peaks consist of Ben Nevis in Scotland, Scafell Pike in the Lake District and Mount Snowdon in Wales, climbed one after another, within 24 hours! Codego took on the challenge to raise money for the Leeds Society For Deaf And Blind People, and also to raise funds towards their debut album, with anyone sponsoring £10 or more getting a free album.

Choosing possibly the wettest and windiest weekend in November, the band began their climb at 5pm, trecking through the night. Frontman Lee Bray commented "It was so windy that the water was flowing up hill."

Back in the warmth of the studio, the 12 track album featuring new songs and reworked older favorites is almost complete. Visit www.myspace.com/codego for more information.

A Halifax musician who was told he was too ill to ever fulfil his ambition of writing and recording his own music has defied the odds to create his debut CD with a little help from his friends.

Dean Charlton, who has spent his entire adult life fighting bi-polar disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder and cancer, has always dreamed of releasing his own record. Now with help from a collective known as "From The Horse's Mouth", he has recorded the 12 track album "One Foot In Front Of The Other" (a combination of folk, rock and punk) 30 years after he first started penning lyrics, with our very own Steve Gligorovic guesting on Bass guitar as well as producing.

Already the album has proved something of a small commercial and critical success, selling steadily around Calderdale and earning praise from local music experts.

Dean, a volunteer worker said "When you suffer with what I do you get written off. People don't believe you can achieve your goals. They see my life simply as a battle to stay well, so to prove them wrong feels brilliant."

For more information visit www.fromthehorsesmouthmusic.com

Three local bands have been awarded free studio time here at Calder after proving themselves best in show.

Sowerby Bridge band The Loconics will soon be returning to Calder after a successful session last December. The band triumphed in the "July Project Battle of the Bands" competition organised by our friends at Square Chapel. The July Project is a joint venture between Square Chapel and Eureka! A week long festival celebrating the achievements and talents of young people in Calderdale. The competition was one of the highlights of a busy week of activities aimed at 11-19 year olds.

Once again Calder Recordings was pleased to sponsor the annual "Keighley Musician's Centre Battle of the Bands" competition. This year's final was the first to be held outside at Cliffe Castle, Keighley. Almost 1,000 fans, friends and family attended during the course of the day where they were treated to 12 of West Yorkshire's best up and coming bands. Hebden Bridge instrumental outfit Cool Piano Roll triumphed in the senior section, with Keighley's own The Luminaries taking the junior honours. Both bands will be visiting us for their free day in the studio.

Shortly after Widgykeff, THE psychedelic-prog-rockers, completed their debut studio album, it was snapped up by King Prawn Records.

The album 'A Town Of Alcoholic Children' features 11 tracks of pure genius including 'Made In Korea', 'Snagglepuffs' and the mighty 'Sex Pest'. It goes on worldwide release on the 16th February.

The band, who formed a few years ago, have gone from strength to strength and recently won the Keighley Musician Centre's prestigious Battle of the bands competition beating off 40 other bands to take the top slot.

The band pull influences by Mogwai, Incubus, 65 Days of Static, RHCP, Muse and many more.

Band members include Sam Champagne (Guitar), James Halliday (Vocals), Alex Thompson (Bass), Arthur Halliday (Drums).

For more information about these guys take a look at their website www.myspace.com/widgykeff.

We've just expanded our mastering facilities and now offer an online mastering service.

Mastering is a process often overlooked by many bands. In a nutshell, its the process which gives the finished recordings extra punch, presence, sheen, stereo width and finally overall loudness to compete with other commercial releases. It's akin to sprinkling of angel dust on your creation to enhance it's natural beauty!

For more information about these services take a look at our mastering page.

Following the recording of a 5 track E.P, talented young Soprano Lucy Watmough secured a support to none other than Natasha Marsh.

Organisers of this years Grassington Festival were blown away by Lucy's performance on the E.P, produced by Steve Fenton here at Calder, and asked her to perform. We confident that you'll see and hear much more of this talented young soprano in the future.

For more information about Lucy and her future performances please visit her website at www.lucywatmough.co.uk