November 24 - Whole Latte Love single launch

We decided to release "Something to Believe In" as a digital single. So far it has received airplay on BBC Tees (Bob Fischer), Bishop FM (Michael Patterson), Wythenshawe FM (Colin Smith) and others. I also knocked up a video, using various bits of archive footage and some "mimed" footage.

Watch it here:

The single was launched at Whole Latte Love in Stockton, supported by Tinny Bennett and Dave Kelly.

November 14th and 20th - Lorne Street rehearsals

October unplugged

We were getting to like the idea of unplugged sets more and more, so had a couple of rehearsals and Hughie's place-of-work on October 16th and 31st.

September 9th to November 3rd - studio sessions

Time to make a new record.
Ste already had three demos, "Something to Believe In", "Yeah Yeah", and "Blueprint to your Heart". We decided to add real drums and bass to them and see how they turned out. We also wanted to record our new song, "Why Did I Have to do That" more acoustically, as we liked the sound of the Metro Radio recording.

The first session was chez Jamie. I recorded bass lines for all but "Blueprint...". Then Ste and I recorded some guitars for "Why Did...". Two days later I recorded a bass line for "Blueprint..." at home and sent it to Jamie.

Hughie and Ste then went into Tees Music Tech on the weekend of September 15th/16th and laid down drums for all four, then guitars and vocals for "Why Did...". There may have been a little tweaking to the others, guitar and vocal-wise too.

After the first set of mixes came through, changes were made to all of them. I recorded a new bass line for "Yeah Yeah" on October 10th and sent it.

There was one more session at Jamie's on November 2 when some more guitars were added to "Why Did..." That's also when the final mixes were done.

August 10th - Metro Radio, Newcastle.

On the afternoon of the 10th August we were invited up to Metro Radio in Newcastle to record a couple of acoustic numbers and brief chat with Alan Robson for his Nightowls show. Very quick. It took us longer to get out of the car park than it did to record the spot.
We did have a small rehearsal at Hughie's the day before.
Both songs and interview were broadcast on August 29th.