Refugee
My favourite spoken word track in the suite by a country mile; this was one of the last tracks to be recorded for the album and as such it was recorded entirely on the band’s new Pro Tools 8 system. For me this section just shines simply because of a tour de force performance from another of our guest artists, writer and stand up performer, Iain Houston. Iain is a master of regional accents and although you only hear a fraction of what he is capable of on this track (he did all of the spoken word sections along with Robert and my father and we simply chose the most appropriate people to play the small cast of characters that appear in this sequence of songs), Iain nailed the character of the Refugee on the run from the followers of The Big Red Spark. It’s a very dark but inspired bit of writing from Robert too. The piano part is me trying very hard (and failing naturally) to be Mark Hollis from Talk Talk.
Simon
This is one of a number of pieces I wrote to show the different worlds of the Big Red Spark. Simon’s right; it’s the best one. And Iain is awesome. It was originally called “The Invasion of the BRS” but luckily it isn't any more.