ALWAYS/FLOWERS DIE
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Always
Written by Breathless
Produced by Breathless and Drostan J Madden
Flowers Die
Written by Peter Perrett
Produced by Breathless and Drostan J Madden
Mixed By John Perry and Drostan J Madden
Both songs recorded at The Garden Studio
Engineered by Drostan J Madden
Cover photo by Kevin W estenberg
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We were surprised at how catchy I Never Know Where You Are ended up sounding, particularly I guess, the vocals which just blossomed in the studio, and were really into the idea of recording another single as soon as possible. Although the sound of the live room at Alvic was really good, Drostan was pretty keen to work somewhere else and after our experiences with the air conditioning we weren’t exactly putting up a fight, so we went to check out a few studios and eventually chose The Garden because it had a really nice big live room. The idea was that the in house engineer would do the actual recording and Drostan would take on more of a producer type role and concentrate on the overall sound. But unfortunately for some reason the engineer was completely opposed to us recording everything live and the only instrument he would allow in the live room were the drums, he’d worked as a drum technician or something for Supertramp for a number of years, as he never tired of telling us and had absolutely no interest in anything other than the drums. But the bad vibes reached a crescendo when John Perry came down to mix Flowers Die and casually put his feet up on the mixing desk, which made Mr Supertramp completely crazy. The whole session was pretty frustrating. As well as Always and Flowers Die we also recorded Clearer Than Daylight and another song, and I remember everybody getting tangled up in 2 inch tape as Drostan just physically cut about three minutes out of Clearer Than Daylight because we decided it was too long. The best part of the session I think especially for Gary was to meet John Perry as we were all big Only Ones fans and to watch him as he recorded his guitar part along to our backing track. When we rang him to get permission to cover the song (he was the most easily contactable as he wrote for International Musician at the time) we had no idea that he was going to offer to come down to the session and end up mixing and playing on it.

Taken from interview with Ari.