Long Play number 2

-photo: Jaska Kuuskajaskari

On November 9 I climbed down into a recording studio, a basement of a converted movie theatre in a suburb of Helsinki and got to work on some new songs, some of which will make it on to my second album. Ken and Carl Papenfus from Relish legged it over (flew actually) from Downpatrick to lend themselves to this record. My old pal Jukka Jylli from the Finnish underground power trio Kingston Wall turned up with bass in tow and songs were recorded.


With Leo Fourastie on decks, olives and Black Bush, the idea this time around was to do as much as possible live. No bedrooms (there weren't any bedrooms maltreated in the making of the first record, well almost none) no click tracks, just "1-2-3" in. 5 days later we had somehow managed to nail 8 songs. Not bad. Almost an album. So, there we are. Sometime next year I'll be delighted to share some of these and other tracks with you.