Greg Phillips, Journalist

"I think I have always wanted to get into the studio and have a really good chunk of time on my own and work on my own songs, without record company pressure, and just be really free."

“It would be great for it to be an ongoing thing whereby people say, oh Songwriters’ Circle, four songwriters where we can go and listen to their guts. I’m not doing it to make a million bucks and go to the Bahamas, I’m doing it because it is the part of music which means the most to me.”

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"I would say the bulk of the album was realised over the last two years. Some of the riffs have been around for many years. There were a couple of older songs which were close to being finished but everything was completely redone, redesigned and re-imagined in the last year or two."

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Oh Mercy rehearsing their brand new album Deep Heat ahead of an extensive national tour which began this week.

It used to be… you go into the studio on this date, you’ll be in there three weeks, and then you’ll have an album. Those days are pretty much gone in as much as that we write for a bit, record for a bit, until we eventually have an album.

On paper, they might seem an unlikely pairing but as labelmates, indie rock icon and You Am I frontman Tim Rogers and country artist Catherine Britt, are currently touring together showcasing their new albums. Michael Smith sat in as they chatted about their guitars and the sounds that are inspiring

“The Road To …” reeks of an album that has benefitted by a lot of time, thought and effort in the construction of the tracks and it’s no surprise that recording was carried out over a few years. “We tried the songs in different formats … a different feel or groove,”

“I had a real vision for how I wanted the business side of things to run, the music side obviously and also the DIY mentality,”