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by Stac Coll

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I had the words, a melody & a drum track. Life for me was up shit creek, having just survived an assassination attempt. 'Grasping at straws' is putting it mildly.

I'd worked with both of them before, Steve & Jools, a brief cameo voice-over on a track on Steve's 'Digging Out The Peanuts' album. I know I'd showed them I was studio-able. That was some of what made them try this, but mostly it was Steve; I needed to do this & he saw that.

The shape I was in then is not worth talking about. So I won't, except to say there is none of my guitar, because it was shit. Jools re-did all the acoustic guitars, better than I ever could. Steve did the bass & the keyboards, a nice whispery Hammond bit. Both of them did an electric guitar solo each, Steve first in the break & Jools took the second one, into the fade.

Steve's first notes on his solo are a perfect example of the perfect entrance, downbeat & dynamic. I heard the word 'slowhand' many times in my life but this is the first time I ever heard it.

Jools solo is another story entirely ... the man has a breath taking touch on acoustic guitar, I kid you not, but to then hear what he does on electric guitar was more wonderful & amazing than even I have words to describe. Brilliant.

The sessions were not easy for me. At one stage Jools told me to 'stop dancing' ... I tend to shuffle a bit when I sing, & the mic was picking it up. There were moments I wondered would this be what it would be like if I'd stayed working with U2 ? .. recording in The Vatican .. it's all much of a muchness now. They both had a few scathing laughs a la blog, at my expense, later, a lot of it justified though that did'nt make it any the easier to read. The main thing is the song got to record; in the final analysis that's what we do it for.

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released January 9, 2013
Julian Campfield: acoustic & electric guitars
Steve Kihuth: electric guitar, keyboards & bass guitar
Stac Coll: vocals

I don't know was it Steve of Jools programmed the drums

Produced by Julian Campfield & Steve Kihuth
at Ruxley Lane, Surrey, England

Photography & design by Anna Coll

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A radio presenter in Dublin said 'but life has no sound track' & I thought 'wait a mo, that's what I do'. It took that long for me to find a 'product description'. My working life has been about getting the means to record it the way I hear it, my own studio.The work was weird, from mixing U2 to wiring nuclear power plant. I can do it now & this is the record; peoples' lives & how life is. ... more

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