Kendra_Smith_Laughs’s Reviews > Set the Boy Free > Status Update

"I watched the bullshit and it was like being bound and gagged while everyone threw dirt around."

"I heard something good in what he was doing, so I took a tape of it home. I worked it up into what I thought was going to be a demo, but it was sounding so good I decided to make it into a record and hoped that Billy would like it"

"I was looking and listening out for new things"

"We decided to record our album in Liverpool, and we'd pile into the old, rusty, white Mercedes limo and drive the twenty-odd miles to an industrial estate somewhere on the outskirts of Merseyside. The band had elected me to produce the album instead of John Porter."

"I knew a little bit about The Byrds, but I wasn't familiar with them to the extent that everyone had assumed. I'd come to my sound through different early influences like glam rock and new wave, and besides the influence of folk music it was a coincidence that my and Roger McGuinn's sound came out sounding similar."

"We'd been in there about five minutes when a record came on that immediately hooked me with its scratchy rhythm guitar. I had to know what it was and who it was by, so I weaved my way across the dance floor and over to the DJ, who was elevated in a booth like a preacher in a pulpit."

"Bobby had persuaded the Sacred Heart school to let Paris Valentinos use their hall to practise once a week, and we had the whole place to ourselves. What he didn't tell us was that in return he had agreed to us playing hymns in the church next door for the congregation at the Sunday evening service. We duly complied and tried to look solemn as we strummed through the hymns, until a few weeks later (...)"