The next thing I know I am sitting in the studio to mix alongside Phil V with Clives  instructions ringing in my head (' don't let Phil mix it - make it sound like the Perfect Disaster stuff you have done - but don't let Phil realise you are subverting him....')
    Hmmmm.......
     needless 2 say the session could have gone more smoothly......
     ht

    P.S.
    I never heard the whole album, but I a) met the guys when they played Norwich the following year (when they were less than complimentary about Phil).  b) I still occasionally listen to the Cohen cover.  And c)  I nicked a vocal sequence about you've got a lovely......' repeated for a song on the first album for my band The Nivens ( www.studiowizard.com ) which we still play to this day.....

    Also you might like 2 know that I had previously been involved with Pete Shelley  (Buzzcocks) and Pete De Freitas (Bunnymen) so as the guys say - what goes around comes around.

    With regard to the Nivens - we are just about to become hip for the fifth time in our 13 year existence....."
Howard Turner
The Studio Wizard Organisation
Station Master's House, County School, North Elmham, Dereham NR20 5LE UK
Tel/Fax +44 (0)1362 668900 Mob +44 (0)7803 666789
Email: howard@studiowizard.com
Web: www.studiowizard.com"

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