December 15th, 2002
Session recorded for Adam Walton’s Musical Mystery Tour on BBC Radio Wales.
Tracks: I Look Good, You Don’t / 72 Hours Deceased
There is a little confusion as to the date this session was actually broadcast and if there were any other tracks. I Look Good, You Don’t was initially aired on 15.12.02, and the rest of the session may not have been broadcast because Adam played the entire new album by Soft Hearted Scientists that night. The same track was again aired on 16.03.03 and 72 Hours Deceased on 05.01.03.
Wayne Cotton (voc,bass) remarks, ‘Fucking hell fella! This is how I remember it. Camera (who were the Benjamins back then) went to that studio of Melys’ in Betws so we ended up going to do some demoing, next thing we know Mr Walton calls us for a session at the same studio as it was/is used for the BBC Wales stuff etc. We set up in a circle and played live, vocals on afterwards. Good session, captured something good. End of “I look good” was a fluke so we kept it.’
‘We used it as the ABBEY RODE e.p. with permission from the Beeb,this was broadcast in its entirety’
January 20th, 2002
on Adam Walton’s Musical Mystery Tour, BBC Radio Wales
Tracks: [Untitled] / Fall Away / Sell Your Friends
Session repeated 03.02.2002
Recorded at Sylem Studios, Betws-y-Coed.
Produced by Neil Crud. Engineered by Geraint Jones
Chris Yates – voc/gtr
Steve Jones – gtr
Naldo Algieri – bass
Dave Robinson – keys
Pete Ryan – drms
There may have only been 3 tracks recorded for this session, and judging from the playlists Adam also played the entire debut EP by Pocket Venus.
Band fizzled out 2003 after rel a 2nd single.
January 13th, 2002
Session broadcast on BBC Radio Wales for Adam Walton’s Musical Mystery Tour.
Tracks: Lay Your Soul Bare / Where The Wind is Blowing / Mr Go Right Down / Will You Ever Come Down?
Instruments: Fender Rhodes 55 Electric Piano
Hammond Organ
Leslie Speaker
Acoustic Guitar
Bass
Ralph Latham : Vocals, Acoustic Guitar
Guy Latham : Backing Vocals, Keyboards, Bass
Guy says, ‘The other members had left by this point so we were just a duo. It was a pre recorded acoustic session with overdubs. This was done at our home studio. We just passed the recordings onto Adam. There wasn’t an interview as far as I can remember, but I may be wrong.’