• HAUNTED
• START OF THE BREAKDOWN
• NEVER MEANT MUCH
• CAROUSEL
• CONCRETE
• SOMETIMES BEING ALONE IS BETTER THAN THIS
• PACIFIC
• KICK THE AIR
• SLOWLY EXPLODING (AKA FRUSTRATION)
• ARE WE THERE YET

The debut album. An uneven and messy album that frankly we’d rather forget about. Some good tracks were featured. But that’s about as much as we’re prepared to say on it.

HAUNTED – This song deals with failing to deal with the reasons behind a break-up and letting the reverberations rumble into a new relationship and ultimately affecting and destroying that one.

START OF THE BREAKDOWN was written about the moment of absolute clarity you get as you realise that you’re actually sinking rather than swimming.

NEVER MEANT MUCH is about being dumped by your bird and then drowning your sorrows with your mates and wallowing in denial.

CAROUSEL: Imagine being on the carousel spinning endlessly before seeing hope in the form of a soul mate; reaching out and finding salvation as the ride comes to a stop.

CONCRETE – An unusually reflective song about the urbanisation of the English countryside.

SOMETIMES BEING ALONE IS BETTER THAN THIS was written watching someone suffering in a bad relationship and being powerless to do anything to help them and hoping that they’d soon realise that the wool has been well and truly pulled over their eyes.

PACIFIC: is about how absolutely everyone on the planet has taken to generalising about everything and the misuse of certain words and over use of acronyms and txtspk seems to have taken over.

KICK THE AIR (MISS AGAIN)… There was his old bloke, he must’ve been in his late-eighties; well, he was walking just in front of us, up in Acton I think. Just ahead of him on the path was a slightly-squashed coke can just sitting up and begging to be kicked. He paused and in front of our very eyes there was a remarkable transition as this old geezer threw off decades of tiredness and once again strode with youthful vigour and purpose. He practically skipped towards the can preparing to chip it – like Stanley Matthews in his prime – into the awaiting hedgerow.

What actually happened was that he missed the can completely, jarred his knee and looked very embarrassed as he tried to pretend he hadn’t done it at all.

That’s not what this song is about but it did give us the title.

SLOWLY EXPLODING (AKA FRUSTRATION) – An instrumental that found its way onto Start of the Breakdown LP remodelled in the form of Frustration (part one).

ARE WE THERE YET – A typically cheerful number written from the perspective of someone locked in the trunk of a car being driven somewhere in the desert to meet their maker. Written watching too much CSI. About to get a reworking.