Recording vocals: losing and finding my voice

Everything was ready and waiting for me when I came back from a two week long Barcelona vacation Recordings began on Sunday and we had a gig in Turku on previous Friday. Straight to the stage with a bad flu and no singing in a month. Although the gig was great the outcome wasn't. My flu got worse and I had a sore throat and fever on the scheduled recording day. So my voice was pretty much lost. We did one song and decided to postpone the recordings. Fuck.

...two weeks later. A new try. Last two days of the year and 13 songs to do, oh shit. My voice opened suprisingly well and I got used to the headphones. I read words and names from the walls of Red Five studio. Memories of the events and people that I had forgotten kept flashing before my eyes. I was happy it wasn't the late nineties anymore and I screamed like there was no tomorrow.