Advantages: It's real music Disadvantages: The sound quality
Background
For the 3 University graduates who make up the Blue Nile (Paul Buchanan, Robert Bell and P.J. Moore) the pressure was on now that their debut album “A Walk across the Rooftops” had generated rave reviews and the attention of the a major record label in the form of Virgin, but with having no manager in place to take care of the day-to-day running of a band and the drudgery of dealing with record companies and of course their ... ...fans the writing of new material got relegated to the back burner.
Paul Buchanan recalls “We went into the studio with no songs and we felt a bit of pressure to come up with something good and something quick and it just didn’t work, we would start things and then get bogged down and it just felt awful”.
In the end, after 2 years of recording, we had two dozen half-decent ideas and the rest was terrible so we just took the tapes ...
Miles13 10.04.2006
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