You just want something that’s not going to be offensive and people are going to be happy doing business with. Your local studios can be tracked down in the Yellow Pages under the “Recording Services/Sound” heading. The “indie scene” in this country since then has been filled with a new found confidence: everything can be achieved. If by chance there are none in your area, get straight down to the local reference library where they will have Yellow Pages covering the whole country. Although all studios want to attract as much business as possible, they do not want to advertise their presence to local thugs who might fancy breaking in and getting their hands on a few thousand pounds worth of gear.

At times I started to wonder if Higgs was becoming a bit too enamoured of the magical thinking that guided the increasingly mad decision-making of, especially, Bill Drummond.It is a book about Carl Jung, Alan Moore, Robert Anton Wilson, Ken Campbell, Dada, Situationism, Discordianism, magic, chaos, punk, rave, the alchemical symbolism of Doctor Who and the special power of the number twenty-three. It also fulfils a secondary role, that of keeping the studio’s eager, young, upwardly mobile engineer loyal to the studio and prevent him defecting to a better equipped rival. Here they played the offending song outside ABBA's publishing company and presented a fake gold disc (marked ‘for sales in excess of zero’) to a prostitute who, they argued, looked a bit like one of the women from ABBA. The way that recording studios base their rates (what they want you to pay them) can vary from studio to studio. The studio manager’s only way of proving his worth to the world is by transforming all the great tracts of space on his wall chart calendar pinned to the board above his desk into something that is crammed with blue, yellow, red and green little bits of sticky back paper, each signifying another session booked.

All records in the Top Ten (especially those that get to Number One) have far more in common with each other than with whatever genre they have developed from or sprung out of. However efficient and organised these service industries became, they could only do so much with the spotty and marginal.Certainly more convincing than the straight rational idea that the KLF were ‘just attention-seeking arseholes’. At times you will be told things, given advice that goes against the grain of the way you have already been thinking.

Listen to what they all have to say but take nothing as gospel; you are going to have to start building up your own picture of how it all moves. The reason we say all that stuff above about “there is no such thing as a fast buck” is because we are bombarded with information about eternally adolescent pop stars who have just done deals worth “this much” or have just grossed “that much” on their last U. Like the giants of Fleet Street weighed down by ancient union agreements and strapped to out of date means of production, the major record companies are beginning to look like lumbering dinosaurs. The most important thing is to get a rapport going with him; attempt to keep him in touch with what is happening over the next few weeks.They then destroyed most of the remaining copies of the album by setting fire to them in a field and were promptly shot at by a farmer for their trouble. Incisero un remix della sigla di "Doctor Who", spacciandolo come singolo d'esordio di un'automobile.