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Glenn Miller, Joseph
Porter and Gary Miller
In 2000 Mr Porter and the Miller brothers from The Whisky Priests started working on a joint project. Going Down With Alice sprang out of an idea almost overnight. Fortunately everyone had piles of songs lying around, so from conception to studio was no distance at all. The recording was all done at the Old Dairy in York, and engineer Phil Elliott did a good job on getting the best out of everyone. When it came to mixing, though, it was a case of 'Better the Devil you know' and the tapes were taken off to Fred Purser at Trinity Heights, where he did his thing and made everything work. There was a lot of spontaneity throughout the sessions. Soldier on the Mantelpiece was recorded the day after it was written, and a lot of the arrangements were worked out in the studio, along to the tape, while other tracks were being recorded. Going Down with Alice features Mr Porter's execrable guitar playing in situ, and is an entirely acoustic entity. We like it.