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Barker’s new tunes at festival unnamed album, to be released midyear. “We’ve decided to let the songs dictate what sort of record it’s going to be. Basically we just go ‘round to the drummer’s spare room, run through the songs two or three times - hardly any prep - then just go straight in (to record),” Barker explained. “It sounds really pure to me - they don’t sound like they’ve been overwritten.” After some recent work took a mellow, country-rock direction aiming to gain greater mass appeal, Barker was proud of his new carefree style, inspired by his music-making maxim, “What would Neil do?”. “I could imagine Neil Young and Crazy Horse making records in a ragged way. “I just love the way he never steers a
NICK Barker usually falls into the latter category of his “love-hate relationship” with recording studios but this time around he’s enjoying collaborating with friends. “Everything sensible says to me I should be making some sort of nice, easy-listening adult record, so I go and make a ragged rock-and-roll record,” Barker said of his new project. “Recording studios make me a little bit tense - there’s a bit of a meter running in them and when you don’t have a band as such there’s infinite possibilities.” Barker enlisted the help of mates Justin Garner (guitar, vocals), Venom (drums) and Michael Hubbard (bass) to help him put together the new as-yet
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