Samphire — Sweet lord, those sound good. You’ve got to figure that the history of this cake came from trifles or other cream and booze soaked cake/cookie combos. I wish to try them all. nyjlm — I pretty much don’t know why I ever bake after the response this cake gets. ;) ...
Michael and Michael were great engineers and really knowledgeable about what gear to hire, which microphones to place where and so on, not to mention the recording and bouncing down process. We’d hire a Tascam or Fostex tape machine and set everything up at Michael’s house on Saturday, p...
The first release was all handmade and loads of fun. But we were way too inexperienced in playing, singing, sound making, recording and mixing down to achieve the sound that we were aiming for. Based on that experience we decided to hire a producer at Toshiba EMI, by which we gained som...
had to witness me throw together the cake (in about 30 minutes, to boot), pack it away and thenserve it to other people. I wanted to make something for my chocoholic coworker’s last day of work, but not actually have to burn the midnight oil ...
Tim:We liked to stand out from the other bands and we had a particular style. Most of the artwork was done by myself though I plundered a book of sixties photographs for interesting pictures. There wasn’t a fashion style within the band but we all tended to wear the same sort of thi...
When I was sixteen I saw a poster of Duran Duran standing in a recording studio with a stand full of guitars behind them. Something struck me about it. “This is what I want to do” I thought, and I was absolutely certain I wanted to be a recording artist. Not to be famous, but...