25th August 2005

I spent this afternoon finishing up Gregg’s latest record. Most of it was written and recorded at his own house over the last year or so, and we put the final touches to a couple of tracks, recorded a new one and mastered the final thing this afternoon. The full CD is really great, mostly lo-fi acoustic songs, with an Elliott Smith feel (only much better, in my view), with some pretty cool rock’n’roll/doo-wop bits. I really admire Gregg as a producer, some of the ideas on the album are excellent – Iron Sulphide is surprisingly effective at half the volume of the rest of the record. It’s fantastic to bounce ideas off other musicians, especially if they’re your friends. I really enjoyed the work today. I’m going to add something in my discography soon.