Alan: "Nicole came to the project quite late in the day but I still had a couple of tracks floating around that I wasn't happy with and since she was so enthusiastic and I'd heard what she'd done before with the Golden Palominos, I thought it would be a good idea to see what she came up with. My concern was that I didn't want to repeat what Anton Fier had done with 'Dead Inside' - I wanted to bring out a different side to Nicole with more dynamics. I also felt that her voice was somewhat buried on the Golden Palominos record so I was determined to bring her forward in the mix and make it a real feature."



Nicole: "When Alan sent me the three demos for the new album, I wasn't sure what direction he was going in but I knew as soon as I heard the first track from 'Unsound Methods' that he spoke 'the language' and I was looking forward to the challenge. Now when you're meeting the man who has flown you all the way to Europe to record something for his record, you may have visions of a pompous shit or squirrelly geek who's going to intimidate and terrify you. However, when he greets you at the door with a huge smile wearing a House Of Pain t-shirt and offers to take your bags, you exhale. I adored Hep immediately: she struck me as the kind of girl you'd want to get in trouble with. Even at 10 am, she was dolled up in high heels and sexxy pants. Coolest rock mom EVER!"



After settling the bill for her room and board in advance (at least one bottle of tequila and an assortment of other duty-free items), Nicole took a swift look around the studio before retiring to her room to prepare for the evening's entertainments. On the agenda for her stay was a party in the local village, thrown by a farmer - an event that Alan and Hep were bound by courtesy to attend and let's face it, would probably eclipse anything Soho or Greenwich Village had to offer. Move over Studio 54........if you want weird comin's and goin's, we've got it right here in West Sussex.