How do two people separated by 11,426 miles and 20 years, record a song that was never written down?
Twenty years ago I was in band called 'PretendFriends'. We were an indie-pop band based in Oxford, and riding on the boom in the Oxford music scene. It was an extraordinary time. Lots of bands were successful locally, with the likes of Radiohead and Supergrass going on to international success.
We recorded two demo EPs - you can find some of our tunes here.
(Demos used to look like this).
Our claim to fame was that the local music mag 'Nightshift' included one of our songs in their Christmas Top 20 of 1995 alongside Radiohead's 'Street Spirit (Fade Out)'!
Ego, beer and delusional behaviour (mostly mine) put paid to PretendFriends, but I stayed in contact with Ed the bass player. After a Facebook chat the other night, we have decided to record one of our old, vaguely remembered tunes.
Now it's the cold light of day and we're wondering where to start. Oh and Ed now lives 11,426 miles away in New Zealand. Hmmm. Ed suggests we both do acoustic demos of how we think the song goes.
11,426 miles away, Ed smirks at the thought of me trying to remember 20 year old guitar parts.
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