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The final 'I Trawl The Megahertz' Track By Track' .

"I did think, it would be nice to make a record that I wasn't on, so I could listen to it. It's you ... but you're not on it."

Listen to Paddy talking about track 8 'Ineffable' in full here.

5 years ago | [YT] | 16

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5 years ago | [YT] | 8

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"Sleeping Rough related to the original scenario of the entrepreneur being lost in somewhere like Scotland. I thought yeah when you're feeling pretty low as I did with the eye thing."

Listen to Paddy talking about track 7 'Sleeping Rough' in full here!

5 years ago | [YT] | 5

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Throwback to before Paddy decided to grow a long and silver beard which reached his knees!

5 years ago | [YT] | 31

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"And duty will not track me down asleep among the trees" - Sleeping Rough

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5 years ago | [YT] | 32

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"We were poor ... but we were happy that's a common enough phrase. I split the phrase in half because the music I was writing was to accompany this proposed film."


Click below to listen to Paddy talking about tracks 4 & 9 'We were poor / ... But we were happy' in full.

5 years ago | [YT] | 5

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"I had this picture of some Silicon Valley entrepreneur who kind of leaves home and he comes to the UK. I'm not entirely sure what he's doing but he genuinely gets lost not just metaphorically."


Click below to listen to Paddy talking about track 3 'Fall From Grace' in full here: smarturl.it/PFS_YTPTBT

5 years ago | [YT] | 4

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"I had a couple of thoughts ... The first one was that feeling of right are you really going to do another long track as a second side of the record and the other thought was that you might need something a bit more sprightly."

Click below to listen to Paddy talking about track 2 'Esprit de Corps' in full.

5 years ago | [YT] | 7

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"The title track 'I Trawl The Megahertz' started life as a very very brief chord sequence but the reason I had audio recordings of people was because I wasn't allowed to read as I'd had eye surgery ... "

Click below to listen to Paddy talking about track 1 'I Trawl the Megahertz' in full.

5 years ago | [YT] | 3

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Paddy McAloon 'I Trawl The Megahertz' track by track - watch here: smarturl.it/PFS_YTPTBT

5 years ago | [YT] | 5