Hey music fans!
Two years ago this week, we recorded this album: https://open.spotify.com/album/7CtcoalTEzWUftbl93sw3k?si=e5VxZdI3QWusS5gQAEJ1VA

I was very hungover for the whole thing and had the shakes for most of it. Aside from that, it was such a fun album to make. We recorded it in three days down @MusicboxCardiff with @charliefmusic.

This was the first song we wrote for the album...in fact, I think it was the first song we did as a band. I wrote it in 30 minutes (maybe less) in an old cottage we lived in. It's based on a true story.

This is our Supergrass song. I had the chorus for well over a year and had no idea what to do with it...I suddenly remembered this comet or meteor I saw one night over Bridgend and that took care of the second verse. I had to change it to Monmouth to fit!

This one is my favourite to play live. I wrote the riff on an acoustic whilst watching some cookery show on TV. They introduced an Italian chef as having "five lifetimes of pizza experience", so that was the chorus sorted. The rest is about a dream.

This song was the first I wrote after leaving my old band. I wrote it after dealing with some tough mental health issues & then recorded it in my shed. The next day I went up the mountain in Llanharan & made a music video on my iphone. This is the original

....and this is the version we did with the band:

This song was written the week before we went to the studio to start recording. It's about everyone in my family who has sadly passed away & the bit where Marc goes "ahh ahh" in the chorus made me cry when I first heard it. I wrote it with a capo but forgot to take it...

...down the studio, so had to suddenly work out the adult chords. I managed to record my guitar on the first take, but the vocals took ages. It's probably the hardest thing I've ever had to sing because I'm a shit singer:

This song was written as a jam down the studio. I had some lyrics and they were full of swearing and nasty stuff, but Marc (guitar) is a teacher and he said I couldn't sing that stuff because he'd get in trouble. I changed them on a night out!

Here's another song where I changed the lyrics. This one was originally called Protein Shake and it was about telling people to fuck off etc. It didn't feel right though. I was thinking of new lyrics whilst sat in a pub in Swansea when a...

...Magnitude 4.2 earthquake shook South Wales and the bar. Suddenly, I had a new song all written for me by mother nature.

Days of Meat. This song was written during a lunch break while I worked for S4C on a job called Gwaith Cartref. I'd developed what is known as a 'telly belly' from excessive eating on the job. I decided I'd cut out meat in an attempt to lose weight...

I wrote the bit about losing 92kg a day etc, and then we went to film in a hospital. As I was hanging around outside, a member of staff offered to take me on a tour of the morgue. I accepted. What really struck me as odd about the morgue was that there was a ladle lying around...

...by one of the fridges. I then wrote the lyric "say no more, we're the dinner ladies, scooping out your insides". The rest of the song was written after eating a space cake. I wanted to write a song that has one chord for as long as possible. This is almost all A...

...the two main lead guitar bits (apart from Marc's solo) were written by jamming along to the song on Garageband and experimenting with exotic scales on some app that teaches scales. I like this song a lot. The change from the A to F#,G# etc always reminds me of Hot Snakes...

...here's the song anyway: https://open.spotify.com/track/2AWCBh7unoFPPQCbCiBeFC?si=Bsk7uBQ9Sdaaz6mF9Xr7rw

By the way...I know nobody has asked for this thread! I just fancied doing it okay!