chris (his real name) & I collaborated on a couple of b-sides & side projects for tiger, then the darlings of the NME & the camden set. camden london, that is, not NJ.

we did a single under his name but really as tiger+, for rough trade. geoff travis was mighty pleased with it, but internal problems in the tiger camp scuppered the follow-up & it ended up as a bonus track on the second CD of one of those "buy two copies of the single to get all the bonus tracks" jobs. then tiger's second album came out amidst much industry hoohah & promptly bombed. shame- it was rather good.

but the original tiger-with-fleas single was entirely recorded here, in the old northern echo (my front room), vocals & all.

(we finished it off & put it on the big speakers in my lounge on the sunday afternoon in 1997 that tiger woods won his first open)

six weeks later I was holding a 7" vinyl single of it. I played bass, guitar & electronics. dan & julie sang on it, seamus programmed the drums & chris did the other guitar & keyboard bits. I suppose I ought to scan the photos from that session....> chris continued to send me cassettes of his sketches until about 2001, when his domestic affairs interrupted things, but we arrived at a method where he'd send me the finished article knocked together on a portastudio, along with any isolated parts I would not be able to replace easily. I'd then arrange the whole thing from scratch, rerecording some parts & laying in samples (from his cassettes) of other parts. the stuff he's put on youtube is indicative of the overall result. sadly, with tiger's demise, chris also lost out on travis's affections, & I was too busy with our stuff to continue...