We had been trying to get a decent take of I Will Believe actually but it was going nowhere. After numerous attempts, the energy – which had not really been there anyway – started falling off to an all-time low. The band took a break and we moved on to do Take Me Away, which took around 30 minutes if I remember rightly, as it was all Noel on his own. One take stuff, no probs. We overdubbed the slide guitar which was an Epiphone acoustic played with a half pint glass I seem to remember. Coylie put it through an old Roland Space Echo and then I mixed it in 5 minutes.



I was really worried about the main song of the session so I had a quiet word with Tony Griffiths (who had by now sobered up a bit) and suggested that he speak to Noel and Coylie about trying something different. I had seen the band support The Real People a couple of days before and thought they were a great rock’n’roll band whereas I Will Believe was, by comparison, shoe-gazer shit.


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