Hi folks,

It's taken a couple of years to write and record this album. Inspiration unexpectedly arrives from so many different sources. A fly could land on your knee and it could become a song! Yet sometimes you can have an awesome topic but nothing comes of it... I suppose if it just feels right and you go with the flow? Those demos that didn't work were recorded down roughly to be used another day.

This album was recorded at home. It was swiftly renamed "hound studio" after rescuing a very inspirational lurcher dog called "Ollie"

Various guitars were used, some expensive, some not; a £39 junk shop acoustic is my favourite. Also involved were; the bass, a cajon drum, a floor tom with a duster taped to a drumstick, harmonicas, cumin and coriander seeds in their jars for different shakers, fennel seeds just don't cut the mustard (seeds), ride and crash cymbals, kick and snare drums.
It's so much fun hunting around the house for different noises to use...especially the kitchen... a cheese grater with a pair of pliers became the washboard sound I was after! Never did I ever think I'd record a stick blender on a track... Ollie looked at me as if to say "what the hell are doing man?".

All the songs were recorded into an AKG Perception 120 microphone and then through a Steinberg UR22 mkII interface, Cubase Elements 7 on my P.C and finally out through some lovely Genelec 10A speakers.

After thousands of hours of happiness and thousands of expletives it all came together. Once I was happy with the rough mixes and E.Q's I mailed the songs to three friends with brilliant ears; Jonny Cole-Mathews (mill studio) Glen Robinson (Zoom Club) and of course Dan Hill (ideas and general genius). Their feedback was crucial and a very valuable part of the process. Oh yeah, then there's mum, who is my most crucial critic.
With the tracks complete it was artwork time. I sent some random lyrics from "In control of our goal" to my brilliant artist friend Sarah Stimpson and the results were amazing.

Got there in the end!
Woohoo!!
Thanks for listening folks !
Cheers,
David Collins

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