Chiseaux

Released : May 1997

 

Personnel

Peter Nuttall - Music/Lyrics/Vocals/Guitar
Ian Forbes - Music/Bass Guitar

'Ignore me' was the best lyric I ever wrote.  It was around the day I turned 22 and realised that I was hurtling into the adult world without a seat belt. It was something a friend at work said to me about me not being as 'fun' recently as I had been.  Truth was, I needed a new job, new people, new horizons - all that - and the song 'Ignore me' was about what it would be like if I was the last person on earth and I met myself.  I'd just Ignore me. 

It was quite a heavy set of songs this, with 'Gone (to end with you)' predicting a bleak future, 'Sympathy' being all about what I thought I was due from the world and wasn't getting, 'Good Friday' about something that was supposed to happen on Good Friday that year, which got cancelled so I ended up doing something better instead.  A bit of a metaphor for being 'where you're supposed to be' which I'd re-explore in 'Fate Says' on Enchanted.  'White Prison' was about drug abuse and 'TV Dreamland' was a jam between myself on the guitar and Ian on the bass, with lyrics about the fantasy land that TV portrays and we all aspire to, or something like that. I forget now.

We lost the original copy of this album so some of the songs with the vocals on them are gone forever.  Probably for the best.

- Peter