Good question. Album picked up pace. Then we stopped for the summer (well, you have to get a tan), then we slowly gathered speed through autumn and by winter were back on it. We lived with some stuff we’d done, and whilst some captured the spirit of the songs, other versions ended up too, well, ‘polished’… the thing is, both myself and John can produce quite well, thankyou very much, but that means that we went down a route of  production rather than getting to the heart of the songs.

So we reconvened over Xmas 08 and hired an old school hall out, took our laptops,  and a Russian mic I bought for a quid from Ebay,acoustic guitars and a PA and played a couple of songs over and over trying so many ways of getting to the heart of them. From the surroundings we recorded the acoustics of the room via our laptop mangling of the tracks we laid down, took away the guitars and were left with what you hear: ‘Bandages’. Another track came out of the same session, which we’ll play you when its ready. This way of working took us back to how we started the sessions last year…. We’d just forgotten how special those early sessions were. Can’t wait for you to hear the fruits.

XJM