The story behind the song
I’d fallen into drinking a lot and even smoking again during the World’s Longest Lockdown™ here in Melbourne and I know I had to clean my act up. But the booze and fags felt like friends I was giving up on - and they’d never given up on me!
Writing the song felt like a goodbye to that “Fun Jack”. I still have a few drinks here and there but it’s nothing like it used to be. And those mystery mood swings that I actually thought were a mood disorder? Pretty much gone! Funny, that.
Production
This album was recorded as part of a challenge laid down by my Music Production teacher Philip Weinrobe, and everything had to be done as live as possible. This song was one of three that needed a band, so I rented a friend’s studio space (thank you Brad Jackson) and gave it a go. Everything is from a single live take with some guitars and BVs added over the top. It turns out that recording drums and piano in the same room is not the best idea as the piano is so quiet in comparison! So most of the drum sound is actually from the piano mics all the way over the other side of the room. Perhaps I should have re-recorded the piano to clean that up, but I just loved what Gawain did on the keys, so it is what it is!
Thank you to Gawain Davey on piano, Charlie Lodge on drums and my long time collaborator and musical octopus Amy Flight on bass and backing vocals.
Here it is. I do love this song, it feels like it helped me through a phase there and grow up a little bit. So I hope you like it too.
The idea is to keep this as easy as possible, so the songs are going to be hosted on Bandcamp - let me know if you have any issues accessing anything or if anything is a bit clunky.
