Well, I first had a bash at recording this during the British summer of 2013, which bizarrely happened during the first bank holiday weekend of May. No, it’s pouring with rain, windy and the weather forecasters are warning that it’s here to stay…well we can hope for an Indian summer in September when the kids go back to school after the summer hols, can’t we? They just published more evidence of global warming, by the way, hottest it’s been, globally, for the last 1400 years…
Anyway, Peter Gabriel, “Here comes the flood”. This song is apparently not some quasi-Christian allegory as one might imagine from the lyrics and his penchant for such things in his Genesis days (Supper’s Ready, anyone?). Rather the flood in question is that of a mind flood that would drown us if everyone could hear everyone else’s thoughts all at once. It came to him while out on a walk along clifftops on the South Coast. Drink up dreamers, you’re running dry…
I used a MIDI backing track for the drums and a spot of piano, but recorded doubled vocals, six string acoustic and bass guitar…for those who like a few details. Bass goes direct to hard drive via an M-Audio USB interface and vocals and acoustic head that way via a condenser microphone.