In the studio with Ben Westbeech

“I’d just moved into a studio in the Truman Brewery in Brick Lane. I used a really beautiful old gun metal Neumann U 47 FET that I bought for £1250 about 17 years ago from someone in America on eBay [laughs]. That mic was pretty much used on every song.

“I was mostly going through a 1073, in my studio. And then, depending on who I was working with, other stuff. Henrik Schwarz had a little API 512 box. Then various others would put an 1176 on it. Pretty standard recording chains for the vocals. But, a pretty consistent one, so there was nothing particularly colorant on the recordings, you know? I knew that would cause problems, down the line.

“Sebastian Döring had an SSL desk, Mixbus software, and a Prophet-5. Chocolate Puma used Logic. I used Cubase. Henrik [Schwarz] used Ableton, and some Max for Live plugins he’d made.

“We recorded horns at Point Blank, and used them on Butterflies and Something For The Weekend. The album definitely did come together in a few places.”