Gig: 4/27/1991, The Alarm, Westfield, Massachusetts

Day Twenty Two: Tuesday 21st June 2005 Back into the serious business of the album. We decide to have a run through ‘Few And far Between’. Steve and I had come up with the idea of merging the song with the end of ‘My Defenses’ from the Poppy Fields Bond. At first we play it like it has been done live in recent times. Then the ideas start to flow, [read more]

Day Eight: Thursday 2 June 2005 The first thing I suggest we work on is a song I have worked up for the Mark Radcliffe show on Radio Two. I have been given a set of lyrics called ‘Menai Bridge’ by the winner of a national poetry competition and have been challenged by Mark Radcliffe to put the poem to music. I was given the lyrics during the interactive acoustic [read more]

Description: CD #4 of the Counter Attack Collective. 01 The Checkout 02 Situation Under Control 03 Change III 04 Milk And Opportunity 05 Plastic Carrier Bags 06 Economic Pressure