Paul would enjoy coming over to Cardiff, for a weekend of music making etc.
Things would often be done with one eye on the clock, especially if Paul had half a dozen songs he wanted to record. Time also had to be made for going to the video shop and then watching the worst kung fu film we could find (whilst eating garbage), plus the other rituals I can no longer recall!
Anyway, this is Part 2/2 of a compilation of the music we made together.
Pushbutton Animal 2
The Girl With The Flaxen Hair
6 Seconds
Red Hot Red
The Banquet Years
Big Simon Vines
[All recorded July 1987 - from my Tape 34]
Partypiece 2 (unused backing intended as a possible 5X0D song)
[November 1987 - from my Tape 35]
Kashmir (my last recording with Paul)
[8th October 1989 - from my Tape 36]
Paul played my acoustic guitar, bass guitar, keyboards, synths, violin, toy instruments and drum machine. He brought his clarinet and harmonica along. All recordings were made on a Tascam 244 portastudio in my small top floor room at 117 Cathedral Road, apart from the last track, which was recorded in Bristol, I think, in a studio near where the Bristol Arts Centre was, Kings Square (??), and not long before I more-or-less gave up recording music, after 10 years of continuously doing so.
We lost touch over the next couple of years, the key moment in my mind being when I decided not to reply to letter he sent me concerning the death of his mother and his subsequent hospitalisation.
I had thrown in the towel.