FAY‘S FANTATSIC NEW ALBUM LOOKING GLASS„ IS AVAILABLE FROM THE WEBSITE
We played some brilliant gigs and generated quite a following. We toured the country’s festival and folk club scene for a few years and produced another album but with various life changes for us all, weddings, babies, moves away from Newcastle, proper jobs and the like, touring became less fun.
We parted ways in 2008, but I still love them all to bits and will always do so. We’ll always have the Sand Bull… My partner is Jon Boden (of Bellowhead fame) and bless him, not a one to be idle. Alongside his considerable achievements, in the five years since moving in with him he has encouraged me to do a PhD, have two children, run two clubs and produce my first solo album. Te album was recorded in the final stages of my PhD, and throughout my second pregnancy.
I mainly undertook it because I was worried I was geting on and wouldn’t have the album to show the grandkids, you know – I wanted to make something solo that I was proud of. Te witches albums are great, but I saw us more as a live thing, I wanted a stab at designing an album from scratch. With two children extensive gigging was the last thing on my mind so again, the project was generated by the music rather than a
conscious industry busting concept. Te material was found through various delving’s into books, most notably a collection I had met at the University of Sheffield of Yorkshire songs. I asked Jon and Sam Sweeney, a young whippersnapper he had recently recruited into Bellowhead, to sit round for an evening and play through the songs. I had, until this point, never really sung with instruments before. Everything I knew was voices and the whole intros, breaks, riffs, accompanying thing was totally new to me.
I’d never even done backing singing – my approach had usually been whoever sings loudest wins. Tey learnt the tunes, went away and came up with some ideas. Tey just flew off each other musically and we all decided that while it was useful to have some structures down here and there it would be great to record as live and fresh as possible. Most of the instrumental tracks went down in one take and I came in and out doing various vocal takes as the morning sickness, expanding baby (with corresponding decreasing lung capacity), and sleepless nights allowed. We were at second edit mixes when Jon and I were discussing pressing options.
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