‘Gold City ‘ - the new album will be released shortly on all streaming platforms. You can order the vinyl version for delivery later in 2025. Listen to a snippet here!
New release
Gold City
MUSIC
Recording in the 80’s
It’s now been more than 40 years since the recording of Richard Faint’s classic 45 ‘Girl” (b/w Hurt Again) so I thought it would be worthwhile engaging in a little bit of nostalgic reflection on the process.
“The year was 1980 and I was a musician living in South London – having moved there from Scotland to follow my dreams of songwriting success. I had demoed many songs in small studios around Clapham, Lambeth and Lavender Hill and taking these around the various publishers and record companies in the West End - as you did in those days – and getting told that ‘demos had to be almost like masters’ to get record company attention. I wanted to move up the quality ladder so when I went back to Scotland for a break I thought I would record several tracks there , eg hire a good studio with good musicians and spend the budget and time as well as I could.
I had heard that a well-known local musician called Dougie Campbell had opened a studio called Heavenly Sounds (in a converted church obviously) in Greenock and was doing a good job producing local talent. I knew Dougie from playing on the local pub circuit (I think he was once in a band called ‘the Marksmen’) and remembered that he was an ace guitarist so was sure he would do a good job at production. He had established a partnership with a bass player called Alan Mackie whom I also knew, and both were playing in a well-known band called Panache at that
