We recorded this in January 1996 in the Docklands in London. It was our first recording as a three-piece, the same line-up we’d have on our album as Kaleida. So, really, this is the first Kaleida track. Produced by Mike Jones, who had been guitarist in late-’80s chartsters Voice of the Beehive – he was a proper Mr Pop and seemed to understand what we were trying to do. (Proper indie-ists might compare it to the album Belle and Sebastian did with Trevor Horn a couple of years back.) Mike had all sorts of theories about what made a great pop record which was genuinely exciting and even, hey, quite educational.
Playing things apparently by the indie-by-numbers book, we also shot a video for this in Herne Bay, which I really will upload to youtube someday soon.
Oh, and you can hear the song right here.
Course, it’s hosted on someone else’s site, so this is probably bad netiquette. Then again they’re offering our song for free, so I could get them sent to indiepop prison. Probably. So.
In a future edition, I will consider exactly what indiepop prison would entail. Bon Jovi being piped into the cells 24/7, possibly.
We also went on to record our album, Knowing Who Your Friends Are, with Mike as producer. Of which more later…
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Charles // July 17, 2008 at 7:59 am |
Will you be posting any tracks as mp3’s to the blog?
duncan94 // July 18, 2008 at 7:21 am |
Yes, I’ll put up some already released stuff and some unreleased songs/versions – plus there’s a couple of videos we did. Hopefully will start doing that over the next week or so