Well well well, I never thought I ought to but I did. Did you? We've all finally finished the recordings and it's now up and down to you to grasp it how you do do. 

  Lemme tell you some of my thoughts and ideas on the songs on a song by song basis. And so on.

Firstly THUNKED UP as this is the older of the four. My family had a holiday caravan that was static in a lush part of Oxford. I was living in Brum at the time with JOHNS ELEPHANT BAND so this metallic box was halfway between there and here in London.

It was frigging freezing and the caravan was the only one left of what used to be many as the site was closing in a few weeks time for good or bad for the generations of family who used to frequent it. So the music flowed out from the river and the previous times spent,it is sad at but grateful to a place.

"I sink 'till I'm sunk in the drink 'till I'm drunk but I think 'till I'm all thunked up".I think I was on the sauce a bit more back then. Lyrically it's not really connected.

"I skin up the skunk and it shrinks 'till its shrinks 'till its shrunk and I think 'till I'm all thunked up"was the original second half of the chorus. It was firstly recorded for PUCK DISCSwith the enigimatic LYNNE SYMMS running things. The studio was called See field with PAUL WATSON on the desk and beeping the horn.PAULA COX [THE BUSH THE TREE AND ME]sung backing vox providing a delightful underbelly and DARREN WOOD[JOHNS ELEPHANT BAND]playing drums. The drum track was primarily done for "SINGLE CRUMB"but we decided keep that track acousticky,so rather than chuck the drums into the never world I rejigged the song into it.

We couldn't really use skunky lyrically part for the new version because we shortened the newer chorus to make it more punchy apart from that the structure is more or less unchanged.Whilst rerecording at FRANCESCOS this song  seemed to fit into place fairly quickly. I  love the bendy base bits and the dark guitar undertones on the verses,if you listen into the second chorus you might be able to make LEE being drunk on backing vocal. Live wise it's a good song to tighten to and energise.

Further comments on PROXIMA NOW,AQUA LUNA and WE ARE SPEAKERS will be put up soon as well as lyrics.