The Hersham boys are thinking of making their next album in the studio we’ve been using, Studio Meditterraneo – a grand name for a not-very-grand studio – so they’re being given the full sales pitch and tour. One of the selling points, of course, is that New Order are currently using it, busy recording their next album, the one that will eventually become Technique, and if it’s good enough for New Order . . . But actually we haven’t been good enough for it! We haven’t exactly been busy, and we haven’t done very much recording. Almost precisely none, in fact. Instead,I’ve been partying.Every single night I’ve been out until the small hours only to rise some time the next afternoon, refreshed and ready to start again.Tonight,I suspect,will be no different. Sham 69 arrive and are met by the two owners of the studio, a couple of right heavy-metal throwbacks: imagine Status Quo crossed with Judas Priest and you have an idea of the hair and wardrobe on these guys. They give Sham a tour of the studio then we all adjourn to the bar.
