Clearly, here was a singer-songwriter not afraid to speak her mind and tackle serious subjects. She also believed in action to back her words and donated the royalties from In Your Care to the Childline charity. Further evidence that she wasn't very interested in the fame game came shortly after she had won a BRIT as Best Newcomer. Asked where she kept her award, she claimed it was in the back of a kitchen cupboard and came in very handy for cracking nuts and tenderising steak. The story wasn't strictly accurate in the detail.
Yet the joke was indicative of her no-frills, no-nonsense approach to the music business. Her second album Bloom appeared in Among its many fine songs was Breaking My Back, about her ambivalent attitude towards being famous. When her contract with EMI expired in , she was in no hurry to sign with another label and decided a period of reflection was called for.
It was just that the record company's suggestions didn't seem to fit with what I wanted to do. It can happen to the very best and Bob Dylan memorably describes how he suffered from it in the mids in his recent autobiography.
To Tasmin it came as a surprise. But she responded in typically practical fashion. She spent her time watching football and painting and modelling clay. Happily, by she was writing again. Before long she had more than enough songs for a new record and began working on them with her old partner John Hughes.
In addition to co-writing, Hughes also produced and engineered and played on the album. The only other person on the record is Bruce Thomas from the Attractions. Our demo was rejected by every label we could get it to, but then Ian McAndrew, who was just starting out in management, got to hear it.
The general structure and melody of Sleeping Satellite were written in the summer of That momentous event and the lack of lunar exploration in the intervening years struck a chord with me. Back then, this often involved live vocals over the backing track, so we had no choice but to mime playing the instruments.
The dry ice was a bit OTT, though. Coupled with performing acoustically at the Brit awards , it helped push the Great Expectations album to platinum in the UK.
Tasmin and I never worried about these successes putting pressure on our romantic relationship. They never realised it would probably have had the opposite effect.
The differences we had with EMI over our second album, Bloom [], are all water under the bridge now. Record company directors and employees can be under a lot of pressure, too. And while not releasing our songs was an indulgence that a worldwide hit in the 90s and a non-extravagant lifestyle allowed us, we recently have had a change of mood.
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