The band’s third session for the show, and their first in 5 years.

Track aired – Monsters of The Id / Seeing / Turn The Tables

Tracks aired: Y Wers / Worksong / Apocalypse

Dan from the band says:
We were invited to do the session by Adam in February 08. At that time we were still playing to a drum machine, so the sessions don’t represent our current live sound. We’ve had a personnel change, and introduced live drums into the band since.

We were happy with the recordings, especially Worksong and Y Wers. In fact, Worksong competes with our studio version. We were gigging frequently at the time, so the performance is quite tight.

We recorded the sessions in an old bunker outside of Wrexham. I can’t find any reference to the name in my old emails sadly, but it had seemingly once been the headquarters of Wrexham house DJs, K-Klass. I remember, because we bought all their old keyboard cases on the cheap, and they’ve still got K-Klass written all over them. It’s useful to be able to pass yourself off as another band if a gig goes awry.

These sessions represent the last recordings we made with Chris Prydderch on the bass.

This was their second recorded session for Adam Walton’s BBC Radio Wales Show (their third if you count the live set).

Vocalist Carl says, ‘The second session came about after having sent Adam demos of the second album we were working on. It was in a studio in Wrexham which was amazing, with the sound engineer Dom (who is a bloody top guy and good engineer). Having spotted the free bar, and being absolutely skint Dave and myself helped ourself to the Cointreau and the Pimms. Dave and myself were shitfaced during recording and mixing and with the help of Rob playing a couple of chords on the acoustic we wrote a song called “Idiots and Children First” about vikings coming to town to rape and pillage and the five of us would all shout the chorus “Idiots and children first” in our best pirate voices – we decided to have this as the only song in our side project “The vikings of the Indian Subcontinent”.’

‘We recorded “The Waltzer Song”, “The Overdraft Song” and “The Bakery Song” for the session and if you listen closely to the 2nd chorus of “The Waltzer Song” you can hear that I change the line “I know you want to ride on the waltzer” to “I know you want to ride Adam Walton” … I don’t think he noticed though. This session was by far the best and the songs and all the backing vocals etc sounded great. Rob (Mercer) Gintis, had replaced Dan on the bass at this point and provided backing vocals, Kyle (Lee) Gintis had also replaced Ste on Lead guitar and also provided backing vocals, along with my stalwart harmonizer Joe (Booker) Gintis.’