If you like your albums chock full of killer tunes, sweet melodies and guitars that make the clouds disappear and the Sun come out in the back of your mind, then this is your kind of album!
The idea for the album came about when we decided to make a demo recording of songs in a studio near Cheltenham using a pool of musicians that we had all been involved with in some way or another in London, Oxford and Cheltenham.
As the songs started to come together, we had every kind of weird and wonderful person come by our little bolt hole of a recording studio on the Blow Family estate and offer their services, advice or just their presence. Two of the most sociable and helpful people on the planet, our manager Julian and bassist/guitarist Adrian helped smooth the musical path before it got wildly out of hand.
We certainly didn't know then, that what was intended as a quick/private recording done for fun of songs written whilst playing on tour with our main bands was about to turn into a 4 year recording project.
Some of the demos were taken, finished off and sent to radio stations as early as 2001.
Amongst others Bob Geldoff came to hear of the band - at that time called 'Fonda'. He'd been handed a copy of the 4 song demo by a friend of ours and was heard saying on a music programme, that this band "restored his faith in pop music" and that "somebody should give them a proper release"...he later plugged the songs on two other separate occasions, saying he thought we might have been signed by now and that we were playing gigs in the area. (We weren't signed, but we were playing live!)
However the first song on the album "Everyone's allowed a little dreaming" received repeated airplay on Xfm radio. Nobody thought of putting a recording out...nobody knew how to contact us...... how the hell do you put a record out anyway? Shall we form a boy band? Ahhhh too old!...
Meanwhile all this early attention set pulses racing and confusion within the band about the album, as it wasn't quite finished at that point and is this a real band anyway?
Rather than rush to get the album finished, we continued adding to and refining the songs, finally wrapping things up at Shonk Studios in Oxford. Where we came across the fantastic Bret and John probably the best pop rhythm section on the whole planet.
So here it is....... how many years did this take?!!!!