then
because other people would like to know how to play our songs
we get other people who aren't us to write out the album in
its entirety." So we were doing that job, transcribing
other people's music and type setting it, very
nerdy to be honest. Eventually we moved onto a company that
Ben had set
up and we were there doing the same thing. It was just Jason
and I in an
office and because it was our office, it was great to put music
on. We then began insisting each other listened to the other's
musical choices. So from being colleagues we became friends."
Ah yes but did you actually get any work done?
"We did," continues Jason. "We worked stupid
hours. When we started we had one computer and because there
was two of us we had to do it in shifts. So he worked days and
because I'm an insomniac I'd work nights and he'll come in at
eight in the morning and I'd still be there to greet him."
"He would have literally been there all night," states
Ben. "At our previous office there was a lot of expensive
printing equipment so it was all caged up and it looked almost
as if Ben had spent the night in prison."
"The first actual point of contact that we had that we
went 'bing' on was Nick Drake," announces Jason. We both
loved his stuff and I had comparatively recently discovered
him in 94 but Ben discovered him as a teenager. So when Ben
came in and said he really, really liked his music it triggered
something and sparked off a bit of a conversation."
The suggestion that the office staged their first gig sends
the pair into laughter, as Ben confirms. "We never played
for anyone in that office, well certainly not together."
"The very first gig," starts Jason "Was just
Ben at a place called Taylors in Soho. We thought because we
had some songs why didn't we do a gig? So I wrote out the string
quartet parts and we got a quartet up on stage, with Ben doing
acoustic guitar and I sat up in the audience being proud.' >>
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