Produced by Colin Thurston.

Recorded for free, live in one day, for a Melody Maker promo, at Protocol studios, London, early '96.

..We seemingly did a duran studio number on this one, in that we still didn't have it quite quite finished by the time we went in the studio. I remember it being a bit loose-ends in places, kinda like fashion show garments not quite sown solidly as of yet. But when we got to Protocol studios, somehow it all gelled and we more or less recorded the song live, including designing its outro ending, which I distinctly remember not being worked out, with everyone chipping in ideas on the go, including Colin. He was *quite* shocked and impressed we dared finish with a punky 3rd harmonic riff thing lol.

The song Gage recorded with Colin Thurston's bass chorus pedal, as used by him on the Rio album, and which, when we finished recording, Colin gave to Gage cause that's how impressed he was.

It don't get more romo than that.

Didn't use it that much, cause it instantly turned ANY bassline into save a prayer. Big massive old blue thing it was, classic gear. I think Gage used it on songs like Winter Again and April from then on.

The telephone dial upfront was a sample of my London number at the time, made with an early 'digi-dialler', which we thought hilarious at first, til I had to go ex-directories cause people figured out the tone/s and it had all gone fairly Smash Hits pretty quickly.

..This particular song happens to be the only one which is not the master / band master recording - of all tracks uploaded onto this dexdexter playlist.

This was somewhat styled into a proper romo number, production wise, by Colin Thurston, as he was aware of the label frenzy at the time, and probably thought making us sound like duran duran would report benefits I guess.

..Whenever I pointed out this song was getting fairly 80s production-wise, down to the choice of snares to be simultaneously triggered with Laura's real drums (recorded in Protocol's stone wall booth, a bit bright and a bit too stony reverby sounding), Colin always answered 'don't worry Evan, I know what record companies are after'.

I'm almost certain he was after a cross between Talk Talk and Duran Duran, two of his old time productions. Whereas this song always reminded me of Feeling Called Love or most anything else by Pulp.

Horses for causes lol.

..We were never [gonna be] as good as Talk Talk, so that wasn't gonna be painted on by a second extra thick coat of a day's worth of production, but we sounded plenty better live, than Duran Duran any Wednesday afternoon lol. I've seen Duran live enough times, not saying this for free. And I think this was finished, recorded / engineered, mixed, and produced on a Wednesday, so the circle is now complete.

'You can play keys using more than two fingers simultaneously, so stop asking me about Nick Rhodes', Colin said to me during this very session.

I still personally prefer Tiger Tiger by Duran to India by Roxy.

Duran are/were [albeit perhaps once upon a time], an awesome, rocking and truly innovative & truly sophisticated band, whose studio catalogue is probably 3/4 genius level output.

..Not saying anything less than - I moved to Britain cause of, and Depeche, Genesis, the ELO, Ultravox, Tears for Fears, Orbital, Bowie, Eno. The Beatles. What can I say. I absolutely love British music.

I criticize it, cause I'm now familiar with it, so the grass is always greener.

But I absolutely loved Britain, it was my welcoming, nurturing, beautiful home for 23 years - or perhaps rather London, as Jel P. says. Lol.

And I never heard harmonies like Simon Le Bon can cut them either, ever.

Laura Elle : drums

Evan : keyboards, sequencers

Gage : bass, backing vocals

G : guitars, backing vocals

Xav : vocals, backing vocals

That's no cutout - that's Joan Collins with us at Harrods don't you know. Creatures Featured.

She kinda behaved like a life-size cutout, anyway.

First thing she asked us: '..So, who's Dex?'

Mmmyeah.