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It Would Be Good

 
There was a pretty girl called Anne-Marie who was on work experience in the studio I was working in a few years ago who mentioned that she liked singing. Ever the gentleman, I offered for her to do some backing vocals on It Would Be Good, a song I was demoing for Almost Everything at the time. She stayed behind one night and sang her little heart out. In the end I only used a tiny proportion of her recorded vocal on the final mix but it really added a sympathetic dimension to the finished song. (In case you are wondering: No, I didn’t – I would never take advantage of someone in such a way. Her big boyfriend was there, anyway; he had muscles in his spit and could have knocked me out just by looking at me.)

The Two Of Us

 
I wrote this for my ex-wife. I remember thinking while I was recording the lead vocal: ‘She won’t leave you again after she listens to this.’ I don’t think she ever heard it.

My Type

 
This song has been recorded in various versions over the years. I’m still in love with it – so much so that a brand new, big orchestral version with a five-piece string section, timpani and an expanded horn section has been recorded by the band for the new album. I just can’t leave it alone. This version is the one Enormous recorded in 1997 as a single for Beatific Records. On the studio track sheet, my production notes include the inky legend: LOSE THE THRASHY GUITARS! MAKE POP SKA. EASY DOES IT, DAVY-BOY. POP IS SIMPLE.

The Way That It Should Be

 
The Way That It Should Be has been in the Enormous set since we ‘reformed’ last year. I love this song. When we recorded this version of it a few years ago for our album Almost Everything, I was aiming for a Motown feel, though I’m not sure how successful we were in that respect – it still sounds pretty groovy, though, especially with the big, stunning brass swells and stabs from the Enormous horns. Up until a few weeks ago, we were doing a sort of  acoustic skiffle version of it with Graham playing with brushes and the whole band doing lots of shouty backing vocals. I was eventually persuaded to ditch that version and the song is now basking in its former groovy Funk Brothers back-beat glory. The Way That It Should Be is another song that makes a reappearance on the new album.

When You Do

 
Here’s another oldie-but-goody for you: When You Do, a song about marital infidelity and how it damages your ego, and can make you question your own worth. Like a lot of my stuff, it’s a very upbeat and cheerful little song whose subject matter is pretty dark and unsettling – but never cynical. Never cynical.

Let’s Run Away Together

 
Here is the storming live favourite Let’s Run Away Together.
I wrote this for someone I was madly in love with at the time – a married older woman, as it happens – who I knew I could make really happy. (If only she would have given me the chance.) Her name was Dorothy.

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