Greatest thing I ever did do dah do do....

I could write a million words on this blog about how we have created the new album. I could spend a week telling people excitedly about every moment in the studio. I could weep with gratitude for hours to Clive Gregson, Lidia, Simon, Aimee and Martin for how hard they have worked for me over the past two weeks. I could sleep for a month as I am so tired and overexcited about the whole affair.

But I won't. I'll just tell you that I have a new album and I am so proud of it I could spontaneously combust. OK, so it has a few journeys to go yet: it needs to go up North to be mixed, to Nashville to be mastered, to Suzie and Ross to get a beautiful coat designed for it and to the printing press to be replicated, but I have the first rough mixes on my ipod.

For me, Aimee sumed the whole thing up on the phone last night. "It's like, you know, Clive Gregson actually gets you, he's found the sound you've been looking for forever, it's like, wow." Yup. That's pretty much it.

I think what I loved most about making the album was that we did it "old school" - no effects, no auto tune, no fancy pants sampling, no dropping in fixes, if we didn't play it right, we played it again. Our hand claps are actually done with hands, the tracks were laid down with us playing as a band, the backing vocals on Jimmy Joe were done with everyone standing round one mic, and every night we crawled home exhausted, which is how it should be. We put everything into it.

So I'll hush my mouth as I could go on forever and put up some pics.

I hope everyone has a wonderful Christmas, I feel like I'm a bit delayed with getting into the swing of it with the album but today I'm off Christmas shopping with my mum, baking Christmas biscuits this afternoon and spending the evening making decorations so I'll hopefully be all Christmas-fied by tonight.

Lou xxx