Solarized

So there I was at Dunstall Park (above), the racecourse in Wolverhampton, for a corporate 'do'. We were taken out by one of our clients who came up from Southampton. For the first time I met Dan Bierton, a guy I speak to on the phone regularly. I won't go into details but his job is a fairly mundane role within the legal sector. We got on well and didn't concern ourselves with the 'action' down on the track. He then slipped into the conversation that he used to work in a recording studios in London. I asked him which one (pre-judging Dan to have merely had 1 weeks work experience in some under-exposed back street studio used by advertising companies or something). He said, 'Do you know Sarm(Trevor Horn's studio)?'. So, it turns out that he was an engineer there who worked on some big records. In particular he helped out on Ian Brown's first solo album. He got on so well with him that ended up co-writing a few tunes on his subsequent albums and became his tour drummer/keyboardist. He then moved to the south coast to raise his family while Ian Brown took time out. Astonishing. He offered to put me in touch with some of his contacts when I move down to London Town. He still writes for West One Music who put forward his work for TV and adverts.

Currently listening to:

Jim O'Rourke: Halfway to a Threeway
David Axelrod: Songs of Experience

Ian Brown,David Axelrod,production,Trevor Horn.