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A few months ago I went into my usual recording studio to listen to the early demos of Forever Yours and Good Morning Sunshine, deconstructing the songs layer-by-layer for a video called Production Values (see here). While I was there, I ended up listening to the first-take tracks of every song I’ve ever recorded, right back to my first album four years ago.

The result is that I took home a five-track EP of some of the more interesting raw files with the intent of releasing them under the name Raw Materials. I’ve since decided that, since this is just me playing the song as a guide before any of the real work starts, it’s not really something I’d feel comfortable profiting from as it’s nothing more than a curiosity for those of you interested in hearing it. As such, I’ve decided to upload the tracks here on Tumblr for you hopefully to enjoy for free. Each track will go up once an evening, every day this week :)

This second track was eventually released as ‘The Time Of Your Life’, the first single from my second album (available on iTunes or Spotify). It’s here with its original title (Together Tonight) and its original singalong-shanty feel, along with a new verse and different (worse) lyrics. This is the version I recorded in the studio in the morning; at lunchtime I didn’t eat, I just re-wrote the whole thing with Tom’s new structural ideas; and by the end of the day the song was finished as you now know it.