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Cheers. Pretty old. 2005-6 I think. We put that second single out on 7” vinyl and it pretty much disappeared despite a few plays on Marc Riley’s 6Music show.
Awful recordings and we should have sacked that drummer. Although I did like my guitar sound back then. It was my Tele with signal split, one half going into a silverface Champ just on the edge of breakup, the other side went: Marshall Bluesbreaker pedal set to clean boost > TS9 > "tweed" Peavey Classic 30 (that I’d put a decent output transformer, speaker and tubes in). That set-up gives you “clean”, “clean plus”, “overdrive” and “sputtering fuzz + screaming feedback” all with two pedals. FUN!
Amp wise, as much as I love that scooped Fender + Fender amp sound I often think it lacks the necessary mid punch to cut through, especially in a noisy rock trio like that. No point in fighting with the cymbals on top or the bass player’s Fender Jazz and 4x10 on the bottom, the middle ground is where you need to stake your claim. I found that the Champ turned up gave a nice little raggedly silverface grit round the edges while the EL84s in the Peavey (with the mid control cranked) plus the notoriously mid-spiked TS9 made a nicely throaty midrange grrrr to fill out that space. I do miss playing electric.