a brief history of It's Still On (Please)
Our new track - It's Still On - has a long history. We initially wrote and recorded a version for our second release, the Disagreements EP. It was an ok recording but really in retrospect I always heard it as a demo rather than a finished record. We'd shared the writing with our pals Barry Flynn and Ingrid Schroeder and it was an exciting moment. However, the years rolled by and the song started to feel forgotten. We were considering tunes to play for Isabelle's parents Golden Anniversary, and, because there was going to be a piano at the party, I recalled our old song Please . It was written around a completely free form piano part, with wildly varying tempos and time signatures, very romantic. Isabelle and I began rehearsing for Scotland and after the first time we tried it just with piano for accompaniment we both felt the excitement again. While over in Scotland, we had the pleasure of driving up through the Highlands and had a brilliant vis...
