These are all 128K mp3 (AAC) format, converted for iTunes.
This album is the result of what was meant to be a generous offer from Steve FP to let me record a 3-track demo at his house in Great Baddow, Chelmsford over a week in April 1982. In fact we recorded 13 tracks over 6 days and dubbed the vocals and violin on the 7th day. Only "Total Power" and "Sex With A Friend" remained unfinished (no vocal on the verses).
The guitar was a Fender Stratocaster reportedly stolen from a music shop by the Mick Rossi of Slaughter and the Dogs. The bass was a really nasty Eros and the synthesizer a nice Moog Prodigy. I don't remember the name of the drum machine but it was a tiny box, the size of a guitar effect pedal, with a few dials on it.
The songs were about half of those I'd written in my London period, 1979-1981. I'd been intending to record a double album but this week in a home studio was all the time I could get. Many of the arrangements were composed on the spot, the songs only having been written rather than arranged or performed before this recording.
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01 Sex With A Friend - written during a quiet evening shift at Total Oil Great Britain, Cavendish Square.
02 Backwards - written at Harbour Rise, Broadstairs, music inspired by The Specials' "Gangsters"
03 Come Clean - written at 46 Despard Road, Archway, lyrics inspired by The Exegesis Programme
04 Improbable - indeed!
05 Hat - a mysterious or mystical instrumental
06 Make Something Up - a song about future evolution
07 Last Day In England - written at 46 Despard Road
08 Decision - written about a Devon psychedelic experience
09 Can't Move - written on a laundry-laden walk from Ramsgate to Harbour Rise along the seafront
10 Frightened Of That Woman - dedicated to Mary Fane-Gladwin
11 Bubble Kick - co-written with the late Nick Gilgen
12 Play With My Heart - writen at Harbour Rise
13 Total Power - a rough idea of how The Who would sound like if they liked classical music