January 17, 2011
Round One in the Studio! Thanks to the radio airplay from my last record, I’ve got just enough savings to record the first four songs in the studio. Producer Mark Taylor has put together a great group of musicians, all good friends but incredible session players in their own right. Ash Soan is on drums, Ben Epstein is on bass, Patrick Mascall is fiddling with knobs and fussing over his amps, playing baritone guitar and electric guitar, Adam Phillips is on electric guitar, Andy Wallace is playing piano, Wurlitzer and B3 Hammond Organ, and Ren Swan is engineering. It’s a real band feel, as everyone knows each other and we’re going for a live sound. We’re going to record at State of the Ark in Richmond, London. They have the most amazing vintage equipment, with an old EMI board in the control room that the Stones used. Mick and Keith have scratched their names into the fader tracks. We’ve got three days to do the first four tracks of the album, and then will do all overdubs back at Mark’s studio at Metrophonic.