Photo: Mike Peters,1/27/2000

Day Two: Tuesday 24 May 2005 The main ‘idea’ behind this album is to not only get the best out of the songs, but to get the best out of the band aswell. No mean feat I can tell you because there is always a compromise between ‘live’ and ‘the studio’. The loose concept that we are working on is that we should have the band playing the songs live [read more]

Day Twenty Five: Friday 24th June 2005 Today we set about making ‘This Is Life [Get Used To It]’ work. James and I spent an hour just working over the chords and seeing if we could accommodate a song of his within the framework. It took a few hours but finally we have the ‘ballad’ for the album. It’s not really a ballad but it is the ‘slowest’ song on [read more]

Dispatches From the Front : One Step Closer To Home : Manchester 17.12.00 The final show of the tour. The longest day. The wake up call was for 5.30 a.m. and by 6.30 I was being picked up at Junction 32 of the M4 by the Pontypridd Manchester United Supporters Club Coach for the journey to Manchester to see Man U v Liverpool (thanks to all concerned). It was a [read more]