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25th September 2007

Finally “A Million Pieces” has been made, the official copy, produced with the kind technical guidance of Mervyn Futter at A1 cds
Its great to see the high quality end product of an album that has taken a number of years to make, mostly because we needed at least 6 months to play the songs live before attempting to record them. I’m sure many bands have felt, after touring for a while off the back of a new album, that they could record the album better after playing the songs every night for 6 months than the “just-out-of-the-studio” copy. On saying that, releasing albums every 4 or 5 years could frustrate the most patient of fans.
As for this album, there were some songs that were not developed that I always thought worthy of the album, so I’ve been working on the idea that an album of these songs could be put together and released in 2008: a mix of old and new, songs that have been floating around for a number of years. Homeless songs, as it were, and I think it could be a pretty cool project.
“A Million Pieces” is being passed out to reviewers, djs and musical “gurus” and I hope they will see the work that went into this cd, the attempt to follow a particular musical ethos in the face of the dominant “new wave” indie scene that has been so prevalent everywhere. Music and fashion go hand in hand, but I always hope that there is enough scope in the indie scene for a variety of sound, the appreciation of something different and the work that goes on to achieve it. Maybe these days, people don’t believe that music can cause “revolutions” or aspire to a “brave new world”. But at least it shouldn’t just be a “soma” pill, a quick release to forget what’s worth singing about.