P.S. I Cuddle A Box 

Recorded At: Small World Yeovil
Recorded By: Head,Peter Bellchamber,Mark Bowyer,Glen Beckley,Glen Nichols.
Played By:ingo star cruiser 97-00 (see individual tracks for breakdown.)

The first album. Really it's a bunch of demos(respect to Stephen moshi for making me compile them) recorded between May 97 to March 2000 at the studio where I was an engineer the long lost dearly missed Small World Studios it the bottom end of Yeovil Somerset. Owned by Glen Beckley and Mark Bowyer the amount of favours they did us was god like behaviour.

Chronologically the first track on the album recorded was 'Contrafus', the last was 'ps i cuddle a box' The song and album got its name from a message that was scrawlled on a pen testing envelope in the Athena where I worked at the time. Originally the full scrawl read 'ps mum i cuddle a box' the mum was dropped so as not to appar to hace any parental bias.

The rather porny pictures on the cover were drawn by me in Athena but you will note that the middle figure with the helmut and chain on was never meant to be there and the man on the cd label was. Someone fucked up, no one at moshi moshi admitted to it and by the time i realised it was too late. Also note that the colour scheme was devised by Adrian Pike who is colour blind. The actual design and layout of the sleeve was done by Matt Cooper, who for some reason went uncredited in the inlay. Matt designs all the artwork fo Domino Records and last year(2004) you would have been unable to get away from his iconic black and orange Franz Ferdinand work.

Almost all of the names of the people who helped record and play the album are spelt incorrectly. For two year after I would have them complaining that i couldn't even spell there fucking names.

Listening back to it I still think this album holds up, there are some full on lo-fi madness bits the ferosity of 'What are they Keeping you Worried For' sticks in the mind. that was hastilly re-recorded before the album deadline to de-pussfy it from the rather trad arrangment we has previously. The title track still brings a tear to these cynical eyes when I hear those mexican girls singing me 'Happy Birthday' thru Kates minidisc. which actually reminds me that we probably should have cleared the use of that song...fuck.

I remember the day I got a finished copy of the album through the door. I was at Kates house her having just returned from her six months in Mexico the day before. She proudly showed her parents the record, as if to show that I was not in fact a useless layabout tosser. They gazed upon the cover and probably thought: 'if he is doing half of those things with our daughter we'll kill the cunt.'

Pete Ingo

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