Others that have wiped their feet here include, Nirvana, Rage Against The Machine, Fleetwood Mac, Neil Young and Bob Dylan

Touring (remember that?) before you make a record is always healthy. But you don’t want to be too polished. As Richard Thompson said – take away the rough edges and you’ll have lots of notes, but no music

Beats per minute: To click-track or not to click-track? Usually not, but it’s good to have an open mind. Harry is a human click track anyway

Recording live is all about communication

Good tip for making an album, and for life in general – become friends with a wizard. Ours is called Joseph Lorge

Flesh on the bones. You know it’s going to be a good day when the Vox comes out

One of many check lists

Time to play it to someone else and make sure we haven’t gotten lost in our blissful little studio bubble. You get a new perspective on everything the moment you press play

16th March 2020. With three days of recording still to go, the studio closed its doors and we were all sent home. It was somewhat out of the blue because of how little we’d been plugged in to the news that week. I took this picture of the universe not being very subtle on Venice beach, the morning we left for lockdown

Touch down in our LA digs. That’s our friend Luke Kellet making a cameo