We've definitely now moved into Phase 2. With the CD now safely recorded and a set of songs written and rehearsed we have moved on to writing and working on new material. We have burst into 2004 on a creative high, with no less than 5 songs now near to completion.
"The Chrysler Building 1976", "Black Girlfriend" and "We're All Gonna Die" have been with us for a few weeks, and they are now nearly completed.
Personally, I feel "Black Girlfriend" to be our finest song.
What was great at our last rehearsal was how we created two new songs almost spontaneously. "The Most Handsome Man on T.V" and "First Day Out Of Jail" came about in a sort of electric storm. I wrote the former song, well, lyrics and melody , in the bath, less than an hour before the rehearsal.
Six months in a Welsh Cottage to get your shit together before writing a concept album ? Bollocks to all that.
There's no doubting the fact we are onto something here.