Then it was back to our favourite studio in Soho, on the 5th floor, above the hookers... yes it sounds like a 60s cliché but its a place so sordid to enter. There was a sign over the door with "MODELS INSIDE" and you pressed the bell just below the one that said "young stern model".
Every day I used to think, 'oh no, someone will see me going here all the time and think, shit, Tony James is going to hookers! ...and worse they won't say anything, and talk in the Groucho club (in the next street) behind my back.. "poor Penelope, if only she knew'. I think the final straw was when i was leaving the studio one evening and met a man coming up the stairs - he winked at me knowingly and asked "how was she?". “I work here!” I blustered, self righteously, realising that sounded worse... ah well, its all very Sputnik
Thanks X, great studio choice... but you know, we somehow work great there, .....and Degville fits right in.....
Well Degville was singing better than he ever did in his career and we kept everything really simple - there was outings to Los Angeles, spain and Macedonia along the way and of course it was a nightmare rush to get it finished in time for Christmas, but it rocks great, back to the music we love, that simple space bass beat...
And no body does it like sputnik, still. Theres no band in the world that sounds like this. Now thats something so hard to do, people forget that sputnik truly was innovative, original... it doesn't matter whether the whole world knows or not, everyday I get emails from Peru to japan, Paris to Edinburgh saying sputnik was the one for them....
Someday!
Watch this universe......