Alice in Modernland-a Journey in Progress

When I was 16 years old I first thought about the idea of making my favourite story, Alice in Wonderland, into a gritty, dark exploration of the human spirit, told through music. It took another 16 years for me to write the first draft, which I recorded in a run-down garden shed with the help of friends John Ellis on guitar/ final mixing and Norm Fisher on bass. Everything else on the demos I played or sang, dub after dub of harmonies, pumping a foot pedal to punch in, all in different voices to try to make it sound like there were diverse characters on the recording. I learned how to program drums, keyboards , run my adat/atari studio and recorded the 26 songs for …

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