I’d gone out on Saturday night with Jez to see friends that I’d kind of lost touch with for a while. It was fun but, as often happens with things like this, it carried on until rather late.

Rushing around, I’d forgotten to get in touch with the band earlier that day. I sent David a text at about 3am fully expecting him to be awake. And he was. I hoped they’d get their heads down soon – this studio session was going to be more important to them than it was to me.

I got home at 4am fully aware of my early start. Oh well – it’s not like I don’t do this every weekend anyway.

Arrived in the studio nice and early so that I could set up at a leisurely pace. Got all the equipment out, mics set up and taped down, DI boxes patched and Pro Tools all configured as I liked it. They’d be late, I was quite certain.

But not nearly two bloody hours late, for Chrissake! I was swearing and cursing. They weren’t answering their phone and hadn’t tried to get in touch with me. I called back home to Huyton to track them down but no sign. They eventually rocked up looking rather sheepish and the worse for wear with school-boy blag excuses. I wasn’t interested: I barked at them a bit and sent them off for a coffee. I realised that I ought not to put them on too much of a downer, and tried to lighten the mood up a little.

It left me with three and a bit hours to get the actual recording done. I was hoping to get some mixing finished during the time I’d booked but that went out the window: I would have to record it before I could tinker with it.

Last time we recorded, we did about seven tracks, all rather hastily. With hindsight, we should have recorded fewer tracks and done more takes – especially with the drums. Quality not quantity. This time round we limited ourselves to their two most promising tracks: “Baby Jake” and “Sex In The City”. Not having the luxury of time, we had to sacrifice the drums, making do with overdubs of the guitars and vocals.

There’s something about these two songs that I really like. PWWS have an attractive sound that’s all their own, which draws on inspirations such as the Doors and older rock styles.

I’m probably down in Liverpool next weekend for my cousin’s 21st so I’m going to try to have some finished tracks for them by then. No sleep for me, then.