“It was a crazy process…”

“The number of stupid things that happened trying to get these records out is unbelievable. One of the stupidest ones was an attempted cut of Loveless. We were in the countryside and the guy who was delivering them wound up driving in the mountains behind us and got lost. he had to be rescued by a tractor, which had to be rescued by another tractor.

“We did over a year’s worth of test pressings. We’d do three cuts each time, as there might be a pop on one. Then instead of doing test pressings, when you get 20 copies, we started doing white label runs. We realised there’s no point in judging the quality of the test pressing, it had to be judged by going through the system properly. So we’d do three cuts of the same thing, with 100 white labels of each. That’s 300 records. They’re all sitting in a room at the moment, in a giant pile. It was a crazy process. It’s not over. I got the best I could get; you have to sacrifice a certain amount of quality when you’re squeezing everything onto one album. I always wanted to do an ultimate version of Loveless – three songs a side! But obviously it won’t feel the same as it won’t flow the same. That’s the next challenge.”