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Hepzibah Sessa, Alan's [extremely] long-suffering partner, also contributed to the making of 'Liquid' not only in the guise of unpaid studio / production assistant, tea-boy, cleaner and general 'skivvy' but also by providing backing vocals and string parts. Noteworthy recordings included Alan making Hep learn, and sing 3 lines of a song backwards which he then intended to reverse - a device used to great effect in David Lynch's 'Twin Peaks'.

Hep say's: "I was doing this quite difficult backwards thing for ages and wasn't getting any comments from either Al or PK. However, from the vocal booth I could just make out PK's shoulder which seemed to be juddering so I assumed that perhaps I sounded really good and they were just getting into the groove, as it were. Eventually I got pissed off and came out of the vocal booth to find the two of them bent double with laughter, tears streaming down their faces, playing this little ditty the right way round, over and over. I can't describe what it sounded like but it certainly wasn't anything weird and sinister. It sounded like someone who'd been given day-leave from the local home for the permanently bewildered - if you get my drift........and no, we won't be putting an MP3 file up on the website!"