It's been about 10 years since I finished recording my first EP.
It was a lo-fi affair mostly home recorded and in a studio in Camden Town by some railway arches where I had to stop recording when the trains rumbled by. I enjoyed the session there. The engineer was a good guy Philip Doyle, a psychobilly guitarist, and it was a shame when his studio closed.
Raw as it is, and I wince sometimes when I hear it, the EP had some things I was happy with and it brought me some listeners and a few good reviews notably from Tim Carroll at FolkWords - sadly the site is no longer around and is much missed - and the noted Italian music journalist Giancarlo Susanna.
I was finding my way. One of the first steps around 2012 was finding someone who knew about recording and I enjoyed trekking out to Lewisham on the Docklands Light Railway to hang out with Noah Pollock, a friend of a friend who was a wizard with recording and helped record the EP. Appropriately Noah hung out at the time above Merlin's Cave (actually Merlin's Auction House pictured below).
There were 300 vinyls pressed, if you would like a copy see here.
Jamming in Merlin's Cave 2012
Noah in Merlin's Cave
In the studio in Camden Town
Limehouse from the Docklands Light Railway 2012ish
Vinyl of 2015 EP. The two drumsticks pictured on the insert are from Iron Maiden and Motley Crue, and the pictured “Mr T in Your Pocket” was genius. If you'd like a copy of the EP see here