Recording with Paul Goodwin

'Fresh' from a week of being theatrical, Saturday found me back behind the drums to do a spot of recording with Paul Goodwin. It was a nice, if slightly surreal session - I've recorded in a few strange places in my time but drumming at full volume in a primary school classroom was a certainly a bit different. Aside from the bright drawings on the wall, colourful childish stuff hanging from the ceilings and humorously tiny chairs, a classroom actually makes a great studio - the acoustics were brilliant. The reason why we were there was because local producer Sam Inglis had some new recording equipment to try out, and the chance to record Paul whilst he he had a rehearsed band available (which is very rare, he's very much a solo performer but his backing band of Dave, Andy and myself were ready after Jack's birthday gig last week) it made sense to record Mr. Goodwin electric, considering the largely acoustic nature of the artist's previous recorded history. We recorded 7 tracks, and it was a nice session with good banter, a desire to get things sounding as good as possible and above all - superb songwriting. Not sure if these recordings will ever see the light of day, but I hope so, because some of the material is breathtaking and it was a pleasure to be on them.