A Few Final Words

The mixing went really well at Metropolis - once again we used the power of "in-the-box" to revisit and tweak almost all of the mixes in the very last couple of days. I have uploaded some more photos of Tom and Jack hard at work on the last day of the session. (In fact there was one more day when James printed all the instrumentals, just in case they are needed, but the band and I didn't attend for that).



Jack worked very hard on the running order (and even left off one of the songs I really wanted to include - but hey, it's not my record!) and Simon Heyworth did a great job mastering for us.

Thanks to the band for asking me to make this record with them. It was a please and a privilege, and I am very happy with the fruits of our labour.

Also thanks to the rest of the studio team, our fantastic engineer Jeff Knowler and our two great assistants, Mark Allaway (Miloco) and James Aparicio (Metropolis).

In fact the thanks list goes on and on. The record is the result of an almost unimaginably huge network of people, manufacturers, farmers, software designers, lorry drivers, business people, supermarket owners, steel mill workers, miners, artists, shoe store sales people....... The list really goes on and on. I can't even count the people who enable me to eat breakfast. It's all teamwork.

Thanks everyone.