Sex, Drugs


I started the Sex, Drugs ‚n‘ HIV project 15 years ago in 1995, I wanted to give something back to the charitys that hel- ped me on my journey in life. I‘ve had a wierd & wonderful life that hasn‘t been streight forward and had many a strange tangent thrown into the equation.


I‘ve


almost finished writing a book on my life which is a memoir of my journey through the sex, drugs & rock‘n‘roll.


At the time I started recording the first HIV sessions, I had just left punk band CHELSEA and joined SHAM 69. I knew musicians from various bands from being on the road and meeting peo- ple backstage etc, alot of them became my friend so I asked them to guest on the album.


I had the idea to record an album with different musicians on each track, it ori- ginally was only ment to be 1 album but the project grew and more & more peo- ple wanted to get involved so it is now a double CD, 40 songs, 20 songs on each album which all join up together. Inspi- red by Mike Oldfields Tubular Bells, I liked the way the album was a complete piece of music with no gaps but still had dinamics and took you on a journey with the music. For the first 10 years or so I was recording at Dave Goodmans home studio in Gipsy Hill.


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Dave was known for his work with the Sex Pistols as their sound man and produced the Spunk album & The Gre- at Rock ‚n‘ Roll Swindol. I‘d worked with Dave before when he produced the 2 CHELSEA albums I played on The Alternative & Traitors Gate and later 2 SPLODGE albums; I Dont Know & Art- ful Splodger. I liked the way Dave wor- ked, we got on well and he believed in my crazy idea to record the HIV album. Dave & I became very good friends and we produced most of the songs together.


I booked Dave‘s studio for a month and planned on having all the drummers in the first week, guitarists & bass players in the 2nd & 3rd week and the vocalists in the last week. It kind of worked out quite well but people were in & out the studio all day & night, sometimes 7 dif- ferent musicians a day. The album was like a huge jigsaw, filling in spaces with various musicians like a musical colla- ge with many different styles including rock, pop, ska, punk, reggae, rockerbilly,


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